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Harpagoside (HAR) is believed to be a main compound in Scrophularia ningpoensis which possess a broad of biological activities.Human serum albumin (HSA) has important physiological roles in transportation, distribution and metabolism of many endogenous and exogenous substances in body.It is great significance in pharmacology to investigate the interaction mechanism of HAR and HSA.In this work, the interaction between HAR and HSA was investigated by fluorescence and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy at different pH (pH=4.0, 7.4, and 9.0) and temperatures (297, 310 and 323 K).The experimental results showed that the HAR could cause the fluorescence quenching of HSA through a static quenching procedure, showing that the HAR regularly quenched the intrinsic fluorescence of HSA, and a decrease in the quenching constant was observed with an increase in temperature.Under different conditions, all the magnitude of binding constants (KA) was larger than 105 L/mol and the number of binding sites (n) in the binary system were approximate to 1.Base on the magnitude of enthalpy and entropy changes, the negative values of ΔG, ΔH and ΔS revealed that the binding of HAR with HSA was spontaneous and exothermic process, and the main interaction forces of the HAR with HAR were van der Waals forces and/or hydrogen bonding interaction.The binding distance (r) between the HAR and HSA was calculated to be about 4.2 nm based on the theory of F(o)rster′s nonradiation energy transfer, which indicated that the energy transfer from HSA to HAR occurred with high possibility.What was more, the synchronous florescence spectroscopy confirmed the conformational changes of HSA during the binding reaction.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a chronic renal structure change and dysfunction caused by a variety of causes.The incidence and prevalence of CKD have been on the rise,becoming a major global health problem.An increasing number of studies had shown that one of the important indicators of CKD progression was the disorder of gut microbiome and elevated levels of sernm endotoxin.Modern physicians of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believed that the main pathogenesis of CKD was spleen and kidney deficiency.And the therapeutic regimen was invigorating spleen and nourishing the kidney.Spleen is in the middle burner.It has the function of transportation and resistance to evil,which was extremely similar to the function of gut microbiome in metabolism and immunity.The latter might be one of the biological bases of physiological function of spleen.This comprehensive review presented the modern theoretical basis of spleen-based TCM treatment methods for CKD from the insight of modern gut microbiome and metabolism.Firstly,gut microbiome and its metabolism were associated with the spleen in TCM theory.Gut microbiome affected individual metabolism and immune function,which could provide a modern biological basis for explaining the physiological function of the spleen.Secondly,gut microbiome and its metabolism were correlated with CKD:intestinal flora disturbance occurred in CKD patients,producing enterogenous toxins as their metabolites,which become the important factors affecting prognosis.Thirdly,as for its origin,development and current status based on the spleen theory,CKD was one of various consumptive diseases.Spleen insufficiency was one of their critical pathogenic mechanisms.Therefore,tonifying the spleen should be a treatment method to maintain throughout the entire treatment.On the basis of our previous clinical studies and the hypothesis of gut microbiome and metabolism,we proposed further studies which were also based on system biology and its technology.
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Clinical data of 151 patients with acute occlusion of right coronary artery were retrospectively analyzed.Coronary angiography and electrocardiography (EEG) were performed in all 151 patients,angiography showed proximal-middle segment occlusion in 114 cases and distant segment occlusion in 37 cases.The correlation of ECG findings with coronary artery occlusion sites was analyzed.Results showed that EEG findings related to proximal-middle segment occlusion were:ST segment elevation in lead V4R ≥0.05 mV,Ⅲ degree atrioventricular block,ST segment depression in lead Ⅰ ＞0.1 mV,ST segment depression in lead AVL≥0.2 mV,ST segment elevation in lead l ≥0.25 mV,the total ST depression in lead V2,V3 and V4 ≥0.4 mV,the total ST depression in lead Ⅰ and aVL ≥0.25 mV;among which ST depression of Lead Ⅰ ＞0.1 mV,ST elevation of Lead V4R ≥0.05 mV and Ⅲ degree atrioventricular block were used to predict occlusion of proximal-middle segment of right coronary artery with 100％ specificity.ECG findings related to distal segment occlusion were:ST depression in lead Ⅰ ≤ 0.1 mV,ST segment depression in lead AVL ＜0.2 mV,ST elevation in lead Ⅲ ≤0.25 mV,the total ST depression in lead V2,V3 and V4 ＜ 0.4 mV,ST segment were not depression in lead V1-V5,the total ST depression in lead Ⅰ and aVL ＜ 0.25 mV.Based on a 4-step flow method,ECG might be adopted to identify the acute occlusion sites in proximal-middle segment and distal segment of right coronary.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a global social problem. It is important to slow down the progression of CKD for economic and social concerns. In recent years, it has been found that colon is one of the vital organs which produce uremic toxins. And enterogenous uremic toxins are closely related to the prognosis of CKD. Theory of gut-kidney axis for the slowdown of CKD progression was raised by foreign scholars and became the research hot spot. Colon therapy with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been widely used in clinical practice and is believed to slow down the progression of CKD by numerous clinical reports. However, low re-search quality and ambiguous results limited its further application. Under the guidance of senior TCM Professor Huang Chunlin, who emphasized the method of draining turbidity through bowels in the management of CKD, from the Nephrology Center, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, as well as the modern theory of gut-kidney axis, we had carried out a series of exploratory researches which will provide data and methodology support for further confirmatory studies and improve its effectiveness.
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This paper summarized Professor Huang Chunlin's traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) medication expe-riences for patients with hypoalbuminemia in refractory nephrotic syndrome (RNS). This paper was divided into three parts. The first part was the overview of hypoalbuminemia in RNS. The second part was the TCM medica-tion experiences for patients with hypoalbuminemia in RNS which included the integrated application of tonifying the spleen, nourishing the liver and reinforcing the kidney. The third part was the explanation of the comprehen-sive application of Professor Huang Chunlin's TCM medication experiences for patients with hypoalbuminemia in RNS through the introduction of a typical case. TCM medication experiences for RNS treatment based on experi-ences of famous TCM doctors provided theoretical and practical basis for therapeutic regimen.
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IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerular disease in China without any specific treat-ment. Corresponding treatments are usually adopted according to different clinical types. Referred to the clinical classification principles and the experiences of his own, Professor Huang Chunlin presented traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) medication experiences for different clinical types of IgA nephropathy which had some clinical instructive significance .
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Objective:To explore effect of serum leptin level on nutriture in the patient of chronic renal failure(CRF)and the relation with TCM syndrome types of CRF.Methods:110 cases in CRF group were divided into 5 subtypes and 30 normal persons were used as control group.Serum leptin level,body height,body weight,and body mass index(BMI)were determined in both groups;and serum albumin,serum pre-albumin,transferin,serum creatinine,urea nitrogen,C-reaction protein,blood insulin,and nutrition risk index(NRI)were detected in CRF group.Results:Serum leptin level in CRF group was higher than that in the control group,and leptin level and nutritional index level in both the subtype groups of Qi-and Yang-deficiency of spleen and kidney were significantly different with those in other 3 subtype groups.Conclusion:High blood leptin is possibly one of the reasons inducing malnutriture of CRF patient,and serum leptin is possibly a partial basis of substances of Qi-and Yang-deficiency syndrome of CRF.
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Objective To obtain more detailed microsurgical anatomical data and multi-slice helical CT scanning of cochlear aqueduct for the translabyrithine approach. Methods Twenty cadaver heads(40 sides)fixed with formalin were dissected under a microscope ,and cochlear aqueducts were found and measured. Five cadaver heads(10 sides) were scanned by multi-slice helical CT. Results The width of external aperture of cochlear aqueduct was (2.64?0.82)mm. The length of cochlear aqueduct was (8.40?1.35)mm. The distance between cochlear aqueduct and cranial nerves Ⅸ, Ⅹ, Ⅺ, and that between the inferior petrosal sinus was(1.08?0.36 )mm,(2.71?0.63)mm,(4.52?1.25)mm, (1.14?0.46)mm, respectively. The distance between external aperture of cochlear aqueduct and the inferior margin of internal acoustic meatus aperture was (5.53?0.93)mm. The otic capsule segment of cochlear aqueduct could not be demonstrated on the coronal section. The petrosal portion could be demonstrated by both coronal and axial scannings. Conclusion The axial scanning was useful for detecting cochlear aqueduct. Cochlear aqueduct could be regarded as one of the landmarks in translabyrithine approach for cerebellopontile angle operation.