Nucleic acid nanoassembly-enhanced RNA therapeutics and diagnosis

RNAs are involved in the crucial processes of disease progression and have emerged as powerful therapeutic targets and diagnostic biomarkers. However, efficient delivery of therapeutic RNA to the targeted location and precise detection of RNA markers remains challenging. Recently, more and more attention has been paid to applying nucleic acid nanoassemblies in diagnosing and treating. Due to the flexibility and deformability of nucleic acids, the nanoassemblies could be fabricated with different shapes and structures. With hybridization, nucleic acid nanoassemblies, including DNA and RNA nanostructures, can be applied to enhance RNA therapeutics and diagnosis. This review briefly introduces the construction and properties of different nucleic acid nanoassemblies and their applications for RNA therapy and diagnosis and makes further prospects for their development.

Disscussion on Lei Shaoyi’s Treatment for Latent-qi Diarrhea / 浙江中医药大学学报

Objective] To explore and summarize clinical experience and academic characteristics of Lei Shaoyi on treating latent-qi leading to diarrhea. [Methods] By analyzing theory of“Impaired by wind in spring, one must get diarrhea containing undigested foods in summer”and related typical clinical cases in treatise on seasonal diseases clinical experience of Lei Shaoyi on treating latent-qi leading to diarrhea has been summarized. [Results] Lei Shaoyi put forward that the pathogenesis of latent-qi leading to diarrhea was wood restrains earth. There were two types of latent-qi leading to diarrhea: lienteric diarrhea and through-flux diarrhea. Due to suffering from disease for a long time, patients with latent-qi leading to diarrhea often were characterized by more asthenia syndrome and less sthenia syndrome, therefore, treatment was given priority to invigoration method.Lei Shaoyi was good at taking advantage of prescriptions and herbs with nature of light, clear and scattering for dispersing to expel inner delitescent pathogenic factors and emphasizing on protecting the spleen and stomach simultaneously. In clinical practice, Lei Shaoyi always adjusted treatments according to different clinical symptoms of diarrhea accompanied with other syndromes, which saved a lot of patients with critical illness.[Conclusions] The treatment methods created by Lei Shaoyi were not only inherited from The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, but also the sublimation of his personal clinical experience, which was well worth learning by physicians of later generations.