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Objective: To study the influence of personality on the occurrence of dental trauma of school-aged children. Methods:The school-aged children with dental trauma who came to visit our department were randomly recruited. The Eysenck Personality Scale was used to test the subjects who met the inclusion criteria. Results: 306 children were included in the study. There was a statistically significant association between personality type and the number of traumatic teeth (P ＜ 0. 05) and the number of traumatic teeth in children with extroversion was higher than that of children with neutrality or introversion (P ＜ 0. 05) . Conclusion: Extroverted personality is a significant correlation factor affecting the severity of dental trauma in children, and it is of great significance to provide scientific guidance and warning for them to prevent tooth trauma.
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Objective: To study the clinical reference pulpal blood flow(PBF) values detected by laser doppler flowmetry(LDF) in healthy young population and to analyze their possible affected factors. Methods: Undergraduate students at the age of 17-23 years were enrolled. PBF of 12-22 were detected by LDF based on the standard procedure. Difference of the test results between different sex was analyzed by T test and variance homogeneity test, and the correlation with age was analyzed by the chi-square test, and the difference between the different teeth was analyzed by the random group analysis. Results: 400 students(250 males and 150 females with the average age of 19. 83 years) met the inclusion criteria. The clinical reference values of PBF of different anterior teeth were obtained by the detection of LDF. For the same tooth, PBF values of females were higher than that of males (P＜ 0. 05). PBF values of different ages shared no statistical significance(P＞ 0. 05). For the same gender, PBF values of middle incisor were higher than that of lateral incisors(P＜ 0. 05). Conclusion: The determination of the clinical reference values of PBF detected by LDF may promote the clinical use of this technology.
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Objective Several physiological reactions of human periodontal ligament cells (hPDLCs) are effected by a varie-ty of long-chain non-coding RNA , and nicotine as the major risk factor of smoking-related periodontitis , would lead to many cytokines changes in hPDLCs .The aim of the study was to explore the effect of nicotine on the expression of lncRNA NEAT 1 and IL 8 in the nucleus of hPDLCs. Methods We cultured the hPDLCs in vitro and used the 4th generation cells for subsequent experiments .hPDLCs were randomly divided into 4 groups:control group , nicotine group ,α-BTX group, nicotine+α-BTX group.Control group:hPDLCs without any ir-ritation;nicotine group: 10-5 mol/L nicotine stimulated hPDLCs for 4h;α-BTX group:10-8 mol/Lα-BTX stimulated hPDLCs; nicotine+α-BTX group:10-5 mol/L nicotine+10-8 mol/Lα-BTX stimulated hPDLCs .Real-time quantitative PCR was taken to detect the expres-sion level of NEAT1 and downstream IL 8 mRNA.In addition, the protein expression of IL-8 was tested by ELISA. Results After we primary cultured the periodontal ligament tissue for 3 weeks, the cells around the tissue were arranged radially .After a stable passage, microscopic observation showed that hPDLCs were long spindle-shape or spindle-shape with clear contour and adherent growth .Com-pared with nicotine group , the expression of NEAT1-1, NEAT1-2, IL-8 mRNA in hPDLCs in other three groups were all decreased ( P0.05). Conclusion Nicotine can promote the expression of NEAT1 and IL-8 in hPDLCs, which suggets that NEAT 1 may be involved in the development of smoking-related periodontitis by promoting early inflammatory reaction .
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Objective To investigate the effects of dexmedetomidine on acute lung injury induced by hind limb ischemia-reperfusion in rats. Methods Sixty healthy male Wistar rats were randomly allocated into 4 groups: group C(control), group I-R(ischemia-reperfusion), group Pre-Dex(dexmedetomidine)and group Post-Dex. The morphological changes of the lung tissues were observed under light microscope , and polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) in alveolar septum were counted. Meanwhile, lung coefficient, arterial partial PaO2, lung levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-6, interleukin (IL)-10, and malondialdehyde (MDA) were measured. Results Rats in the I-R group were resulted in the damage of the lung tissues. The rats in group Pre-Dex and group Post-Dex were featured with obvious mild lung injury. TNF-α、IL-6、IL-10 and MDA in lung levels were significantly increased in group I-R , Pre-Dex and Post-Dex. TNF-α, IL-6 and MDA in the lung were significantly decreased in group Pre-Pex and group Post-Dex. IL-10 was increased in group Pre-Dex and group Post-Dex. Conclusions Inflammatory response and oxidative stress are involved in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury induced by hind limb ischemia-reperfusion in rats. Dexmedetomidine attenuated the lung injury through anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the influence of age on hypnotic target plasma concentration (CT) of dexmedetomidine (Dex) administered by TCI.MethodsSixty ASA Ⅰ - Ⅱ patients aged 18-85 yr undergoing lower abdominal or extremity operation under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia were divided into 2 age groups ( n =30each):18 yr＜groupⅠ＜55 yr (Y) and 65 yr＜group Ⅱ＜85 yr (E).Each group was further divided into 5subgroups (n =6 each) receiving Dex administered by TCI at CT of 0.54,0.64,0.76,0.90,1.07 ng/ml in group Y and 0.36,0.42,0.51,0.60,0.71 ng/ml in group E respectively.Hypnosis was defined as no response to verbal command (OAA/S score ≤2) and loss of eyelash reflex.A quantal response model (probit analysis) was used to calculate the concentration-effect curve and predict plasma EC50 and EC95 (95％CI) of Dex.ResultsEC50 (95％CI) was 0.478(0.424-0.536) ng/ml and EC95(95％CI) 0.641 (0.567-0.816) ng/ml in group E,significantly lower than EC50 (95 ％ CI) 0.738 (0.657-0.827) ng/ml and EC95 (95％CI) 0.990 (0.874-1.267 ) ng/ml in group Y.ConclusionThe EC50 and EC95 of dexmedetomidine for hypnosis were significantly lower in the elderly than in younger patients.