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Erythropoietin (EPO) is traditionally d escribed as a hematopoietic cytokine or growth hormone regulating proliferation, differentiation, and survival of erythroid progenitors. The use of EPO in patients with chronic kidney disease(CKD) was a milestone achievement in the treatment of anemia. A growing number of clinical trials aimed at anemia management have assessed the potential benefits of EPO in reducing the loss of kidney function and also the incidence of cardicvascular disease (CVD) in CKD patients. Analysis of the biological effects of EPO and pathophysiology of CKD in these studies suggests that treatment with EPO exerts cellular protection, immune regulation by pleiotropic actions on several targets and directly or indirectly slows the progression of CKD and reduces CVD-related mortality. The aim of this article is to discuss these possible protection mechanisms and provides a comprehensive overview of EPO.
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Objective To study medical fear and its influencing factors in hospitalized school-age children in Lanzhou area.Methods Children's Medical Fear Scale was used to investigate 110 cases of hospitalized school-age children,and the investigation result underwent analysis.Results The total score of children's medical fears was (50.43±7.34),the three items with the highest score among 30 items were surgery,death,being deprived of education,homework delay,surgery and death tied for first.Conclusions Medical fear of school-age children was related with age and gender,female was significantly higher than that of male.No relationship with the family education environment,duration of illness,area of residence.
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Objective To explore the effect of total flavonoids of astragalus (TFA) on the apoptosis of endothelial cells induced by serum of uremia patient .Methods The serum of 22 healthy volunteers and 25 uremia patients receiving regularly hemodialysis were enrolled in the study .HUVECs were used as research objects ,which were divided into control group(adding serum of healthy people when cell synchronized) and uremia group (adding serum of uremia patient when cell synchronized ) .Low dose ,moderate dose and high dose group were prepared by adding 0 .5 ,1 .0 ,2 .0 mg/mL TFA respectively 6 h before cell synchronization .After 24 hours′culture since the serum were added ,the morphological change of endothelial cells were observed by microscopy ,proliferation activities were tested by using MTT ,SOD activities were tested by using xanthine oxidase method ,NO levels were measured by u-sing nitrate reductase colorimetric method ,DNA damage was detected by using comet assay ,the morphological change of apoptosis was observed by using TUNEL method .Results Compared with the control group ,the proliferation activity ,SOD activity ,NO lev-els were lower in uremia group(P< 0 .01) ,DNA tailing rate ,apoptosis index(AI) significantly increased (P<0 .01) .Compared with cells of uremia group ,cell proliferation activity of all the TFA intervention groups increased (P<0 .05) ,NO levels also in-creased (P<0 .01) .Compared with uremia group ,moderate and high dose group′s SOD activity increased (P<0 .05) ,DNA damage tailing rate decreased (P<0 .05) .Conclusion Total flavonoids of astragalus reduces apoptosis of HUVECs induced by serum of uremia patient ,the possible mechanism is associated with the decrease of oxidative stress .