Role of gut microbiota in the treatment of ulcerative colitis with traditional Chinese medicine / 药学学报

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic non-specific inflammatory bowel disease, listed as a modern refractory disease by the World Health Organization, which is difficult to recover, whereas it is easy to be attacked repeatedly. UC pathogenesis is closely related to gut microbiota dysbiosis. The gut microbiota interacts with bile acids (BAs), short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), tryptophan, and other metabolism, immune system, intestinal barrier, etc., which regulate each other and affect the occurrence and development of UC. The active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), single herb and its extracts, and formulae can effectively alleviate UC symptoms by regulating the diversity, structure, composition, and metabolites of gut microbiota. In this review, the TCM based on the regulation of gut microbiota in the treatment of UC and its related mechanism for nearly three years was summarized.

Study advance of depressive animal models and its application in traditional Chinese medicines / 中国中药杂志

Depression is a kind of mental disease with main symptoms of low mood and lack of pleasure, which seriously endangers human health. An appropriate depressive animal model is of great significance for the study of depression and new antidepressant drugs, while the suitable selection and matching of experimental animals, modeling methods and evaluation indexes are critical to eva-luate the scientificity and effectiveness of the depressive animal model. The study advance of depressive animal models in the aspects of experimental animal selection, modeling principle and method, characteristics, evaluation indexes and their application in traditional Chinese medicine are summarized through the systematic review of relevant literatures in PubMed, CNKI and other databases. The depressive animal modeling methods utilized in recent studies include stress, glucocorticoid induction, reserpine induction, lipopolysaccharide induction, surgical modeling, gene knockout, joint application modeling methods. Stress method is better to simulate the depressive symptoms of clinical patients, whereas there are some deficiencies, such as long modeling time and large cost. The depressive animal models induced by glucocorticoid, reserpine and lipopolysaccharide have the advantages of short modeling time and good controllability, but with a poor reliability. The pathogenesis of surgical modeling is highly matched with that of clinical depressive patients, whereas it has the defect of long postoperative recovery period. Gene knockout models can be used to study the precise role of specific genes in depression. However, its applicability may be restricted in studies on depression. The joint application modeling method can improve its reliability and accuracy, and attracts more and more attention. This paper provides a reference for the selection of animal models in future studies of pathological mechanism of depression, and screening and evaluation of antidepressant drugs.

Experience of diagnosis and treatment for cervical tracheoesophageal fistula complicated with laryngotracheal stenosis / 中华耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the treatment of cervical tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) with complicated or remnant laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) and anterior neck defect (AND).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From 1980 to 2007, 14 patients were diagnosed as TEF. Among them, 9 patients had complicated or remnant LTS, 3 patients had complicated AND, and 2 patients had TEF which were induced by Nickel-Titanium alloy mesh stent for treating benign esophageal stricture. All these patients were retrospectively studied in Tangdu Hospital. Treatment consisted of conservative therapy of TEF, staged surgical repair of TEF and laryngotracheal reconstruction according to the dimension (small or large) of TEF and complications.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Four patients with small TEF (2 - 3 mm length) complicated LTS underwent laryngotracheal reconstruction stented with silicone T tube and TEF was adopted conservative treatment. The TEF and LTS were healed. Six patients with larger TEF (10 - 25 mm length) were repaired by staged surgical repair of TEF and laryngotracheal reconstruction. Among them, 3 cases had complicated LTS and AND, 2 cases had recent LTS and 1 case had TEF without complication. Two patients had TEF and LTS, whose TEF healed before laryngotracheal reconstruction, the remnant LTS were reconstructed and healed. During the follow-up ranged from one to ten years, 12 patients were successfully treated without complications. One patient with TEF and LTS was treated only LTS because of a segment of esophagus was closed and treated with esophagogastrostomy in the department of thoracic surgery after LTS was successfully reconstructed and cured. One patient died of bleeding and asphyxia induced by the Nickel-Titanium alloy stent because of the stent had not been taken out.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The small cervical TEF complicated or remnant LTS can be treated by laryngotracheal reconstruction and conservative treatment of TEF at the same time. A larger TEF complicated LTS should be treated by staged repair of TEF and LTS.</p>

Screening of the effective cellulose-degradable strain and its application in the production of cellulose bioethanol / 西安交通大学学报·英文版

Strains from the cellulose-containing environment were collected. Primary screening (by filter-paper Hutchison solid culture medium and sodium carboxymethylcellulose solid culture medium) and reelection(by filter-paper inorganic salt culture medium and sodium carboxymethylcellulose Congo red culture medium) indicated that five strains obtained were best suited for high performance cellulose degradation. Determination of sodium carboxymethylcellulose activity(CMCA) and filter paper activity(FPA) was accomplished for each of the five. The strongest of the five in CMCA and FPA was applied to the production of cellulose bioethanol by separate hydrolysis and fermentation(SHF) and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation(SSF) respectively.

Optimization of Cultural Conditions of Probiotic Bacteria Lactobacillus casei Zhang for High Cell Density Cultivation / 微生物学通报

To get high cell density,pH-stat fermentations of L.casei Zhang were carried out in the medium optimized previously under different cultural conditions.The influences of neutralizing agents,the concen-tration of buffer salts and glucose in the medium,pH,aeration and fed batch fermentation on the growth of L.casei Zhang were investigated.Based on the values of maximum specific growth rate,biomass and viable cells count in different cultural conditions,the optimal growth condition was regarded as follows:Glucose level of the medium was 80 g/L ～100 g/L;The pH was kept constant at 5.9 with aqua ammonia and anae-robic condition was kept by sparged with nitrogen periodically;The temperature was set at 37?C and cul-tured for 10 h ～12 h.The biomass and viable cells' number of L.casei Zhang under this culture conditions were 7 g/L and 3.5?1010 CFU/mL respectively,and were 7 times as high as that before optimized,which can meet the requirements of probiotics.

Study on the Optimization of Enrichment Medium of Lactobacillus casei Zhang / 微生物学通报

The effects of different carbon source,nitrogen source,proportion of carbon and nitrogen source, microelement and buffer salts on the growth of Lactobacillus casei Zhang isolated from Koumiss were studied.The enrichment medium for Lactobacillus casei Zhang was optimized by response surface methodology and its composition was glucose 20.9 g/L,soy peptone 10.45 g/L,yeast extract 10.45 g/L,K2HPO4 3.5 g/L, sodium acetate 14.6 g/L,sodium citrate 2.35 g/L,MgSO4?7H2O 1.0 g/L,MnSO4?5H2O 54 mg/L, CuSO4?5H2O 10 mg/L,tween 80 1.0 g/L.After cultivated in enrichment medium for 18h at 37℃,the living cells of Lactobacillus casei Zhang were 4.78?109 CFU/mL,which was about 10 times higher than in MRS (4.8?10 8 CFU/mL).