Effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia on blood pressure and vascular remodeling / 中华耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

Objective@#To investigate blood pressure and vascular remodeling of OSAS by establishing the chronic-intermittent hypoxia model in rat.@*Methods@#Experiments were performed on 35 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were randomly divided into four groups: unhandled control group (with 5 rats in it), CIH group at 9/6/3 weeks (with 10 ratsin each group). Rats in CIH group went through 8-hour intermittent hypoxia everyday, and those in control group were raising normally. After 9-week experiment, blood pressure was measured. The changes of the following indexes were observed: pathological changes of aorta and the middle aorta thickness (HE staining), the collagen of aorta wall (Masson staining). The experimental data were analyzed by SPSS 24.0 statistical software. The variance was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance, and the irregularity was selected using the calibration t test.@*Results@#The systolic and diastolic blood pressures of the CIH9, 6, and 3 weeks groups and the control group were: (127±13) and (79±9), (124±11) and (81±7), (101±11) and (75±9), (91±10) and (65±9) mmHg (1 mmHg=0.133 kPa). The systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure of the rats in the week of CIH 9 and 6 weeks were significantly higher than the control group (F=14.64, P=0.000; F=6.81, P=0.000). There was no significant difference in the mean blood pressure between the three groups of CIH and the control group. Membrane thickness in CIH9, 6 and 3 weeks and control group were: (20±2), (19±2), (14±2), (13±3) μm. Compared with the control group, the aortic pathology and thickness of the middle layer of the CIH9 and 6 weeks group were significantly thicker (F=20.24, P=0.000), but there was no significant difference between the CIH3 week group and the control group; the collagen deposition was unchanged compared with the control group.@*Conclusion@#Intermittent hypoxia for 6 weeks or more in rats resulted in the increasement of blood pressure, morphological changes of aorta and vascular remodeling in thickened media.

Effect of long needle penetration needling on matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor 1 in the synovium of knee osteoarthritis model rats / 中国组织工程研究

BACKGROUND: Matrix metal oproteinase inhibitor 1 plays an important role in the inhibition of articular cartilage degeneration and destruction. OBJECTIVE: To observe the changes of matrix metal oproteinase inhibitor 1 expression level in synovium of knee osteoarthritis rats after treated with penetration needling of long needle. METHODS: A total of 40 Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned into normal group, penetration needling group, drug group and model group, with 10 rats in every group. 1.6% papain solution was injected into knee joint cavity of Sprague-Dawley rats. 2 weeks later, knee osteoarthritis models were established. Rats in the normal and model groups did not receive any intervention. In the penetration needling group, rats were treated by penetration needling with 0.3 mm×125.0 mm filiform needle. Rats in the drug group were intraarticularly injected with sodium hyaluronate. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: (1) Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay: at 4 weeks after treatment, matrix metal oproteinase inhibitor 1 expression in synovial membrane was higher in the normal group than in the model group (P < 0.05). Matrix metal oproteinase inhibitor 1 expression in synovial membrane was higher in the penetration needling group and drug group than in the model group (P < 0.05). (2) Results verified that long needle penetration therapy can effectively increase matrix metal oproteinase inhibitor 1 expression in synovial membrane of knee osteoarthritis model rats.

The vitro research of effects of Beclin1 on paclitaxel-sensitivity in laryngeal carcinoma cell Hep-2 / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

OBJECTIVE@#Background: We detect the effects of Beclinl on paclitaxel-sensitivity in laryngeal carcinoma cell.@*METHOD@#This study used Hep-2, Hep-2-pcDNA3. 1, Hep-2-Beclinl as invitro model. The effect of paclitaxel on the proliferation and cell apoptosis of laryngeal cancer cell lines was evaluated by MTT assay and flow cytometry. The protein expression level of Akt and p-Akt was detected by Western blot. Result: After treated by paclitaxel, the inhibition rate was significantly higher in Hep-2-Beclin cells than in Hep-2-pcDNA3. 1 cells and Hep-2 cells (P0. 05).@*CONCLUSION@#Beclinl enhances paclitaxel-sensitivity by inhibition of PI3K/Akt pathway.

Therapeutic Observation on Tuina plus Electroacupuncture for Lateral Humeral Epicondylitis / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of tuina combined with electroacupuncture (EA) in treating lateral humeral epicondylitis. ＜br> Methods: Totally 118 patients were randomly allocated into a treatment group and a control group, 59 cases in each. The patients in the treatment group were treated with tuina combined with EA treatment, while those in the control group were treated by EA alone. Clinical efficacies of the two groups were compared after the treatment. ＜br> Results: The total effective rate was 93.2% in the treatment group, versus 84.7% in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P＜0.05). ＜br> Conclusion: Tuina combined with EA treatment for lateral humeral epicondylitis has a significant effect.

Management and prognosis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma with tracheal invasion / 中华耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To evaluate treatment modalities and prognosis differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) with tracheal invasion.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Clinical data were reviewed and analyzed in 50 patients treated for DTC with tracheal invasion between January 1990 and June 1998. The different surgical modalities were applied according to the extent of tracheal invasion: shave excision (20 cases), tracheal sleeve resection or tracheal partial resection (23 cases), total laryngectomy or laryngeal closure surgery (7 cases). Thirty-eight cases received postoperative (131)I therapy. Survival rate was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The 5-, 10- and 15-year survival rates of all the cases were 90.0%, 74.0% and 56.0%, respectively. The 5-, 10- and 15-year survival rates were 94.7%, 81.6% and 65.8% respectively in 38 cases with postoperative (131)I therapy and were 75.0%, 50.0% and 25.0% respectively in 12 cases without postoperative (131)I therapy, with statistically significant differences in 5-, 10- or 15-year survival rates between the patients of two groups.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The tumors can be resected radically by corresponding surgery based on the extent of tracheal invasion. Postoperative (131)I therapy can enhance the survival rate of the patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma involving in trachea.</p>

One case report of carotid body tumor resected with hemorrhage and artery repair / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

Carotid body tumors (CBT) were rare. One case with a mass in the right neck side suspected as CBT after preoperative examination was reported with hemorrhage, and artery repair in the resection of the mass, which was finally diagnosed as CBT by pathological examination. Its resection methods, postoperative complications and artery repair methods were discussed.

The study on clinical significance of the expression of EGFL7 in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the association and mechanism of EGFL7 expression level with the invasion and metastasis of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma.@*METHOD@#RT-PCR and Western blotting were used respectively to detect the level of EGFL7 mRNA and protein form 33 fresh laryngeal carcinoma tissues and matched para-neoplastic non-tumor tissues. The immunohistochemistry technique was performed to determine microvessel density (MVD) in 33 tumor tissues. The association of EGFL7 expression and MVD with clinicopathological characteristics was analyzed.@*RESULT@#EGFL7 mRNA and protein expression were both significantly higher in the tumor tissues than in the paraneoplastic non-tumor tissues (P 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#EGFL7 may have a close correlation with the development of laryngeal carcinoma via its impact on tubulogenesis and vessel shape. EGFL7 might serve as a tumor marker for assessing the progression of laryngeal carcinoma and a guide of clinical therapeutic decisions.

CD44 regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and metastasis in nasopharyngeal cancer cells / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To study the correlation of CD44 with epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT) and metastasis in nasopharyngeal cancer cells, and explore the possible mechanism of CD44 regulates EMT and metastasis in nasopharyngeal cancer cells.@*METHOD@#The CD44 and EMT-associated proteins in 5-8F and 6-10B nasopharyngeal cancer cell lines were assayed by Western blotting. The erasion trace test was performed to observe the migratory ability of 5-8F and 6-10B nasopharyngeal cancer cells. Using lipid-mediated DNA transfection technique, the low metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer cells 6-10B were transfected in vitro with plasmid which contained CD44 gene, and then new nasopharyngeal cancer cells were obtained. The CD44 and EMT-associated proteins in 6-10B, empty vector transfected and CD44-transfected cells were assayed by Western blotting. The erasion trace test was performed to observe the alteration of migratory ability of nasopharyngeal cancer cells before and after CD44 transfection.@*RESULT@#The expression of CD44 and EMT-associated protein MMP-9 in 5-8F was higher than that in 6-10B, but EMT-associated protein E-Cadherin in 5-8F was lower than that in 6-10B. The migratory ability of 5-8F was higher than that of 6-10B. The expression of CD44 and MMP-9 were significantly higher in the CD44-transfected nasopharyngeal cancer cells than in the control groups. Compared with control groups, the migratory ability of CD44-transfected nasopharyngeal cancer cells was significantly increased.@*CONCLUSION@#CD44 positively regulates the metastatic ability of nasopharyngeal cancer cells, which is relevant to the process of EMT.

Synergistic interactions of TRAIL and paclitaxel on the nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines in vitro / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the synergistic cytotoxicity of TRAIL and paclitaxel on nasopharyngeal cell lines CNE-1 and CNE-2.@*METHOD@#CCK-8 assays the growth inhibition rate of CNE-1 and CNE-2 which was treated with TRAIL or paclitaxel or combination of both. Flow cytometry tests the apoptosis rate of CNE-1 and CNE-2 which was treated with TRAIL or paclitaxel or combination of each other.@*RESULT@#In certain range of time and concentration,TRAIL and paclitaxel inhibited the growth of the cell lines of CNE-1 and CNE-2 in a time-dose dependent manner (P < 0.05). The rate of growth inhibition and apoptosis in TRAIL and paclitaxel combinative group was more significant than that in the TRAIL and paclitaxel singular group (P < 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#TRAIL and paclitaxel had a synergistic killing effect on NPC cell lines and showed better affection than singular group, which provides a novel and prospective strategy for NPC chemotherapy.

Regulatory effects of transforming growth factor beta in electro-acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthris / 中国组织工程研究

BACKGROUND: Electro-acupuncture therapy shows good central and peripheral analgesic effects. Several studies have shown that transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of knee osteoarthritis. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mechanism underlying electro-acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: A total of 80 healthy male 3-month-old Sprague Dawley rats were randomly and evenly divided into normal, model, electro-acupuncture and drug groups. Rat models of knee osteoarthris were estbalished by ligating the femoral veins and forcing rats to do activies. At 1 month after knee osteoarthris induction, the electro-acupuncture group rats received electro-acupuncture therapy at two acupoints Neixiyan (EX-LE4) and Dubi (ST 35) with a depth of 0.1 cun (pulse 2 Hz, 20 minutes, once a day). The drug group rats were intraarticularly administerd sodium hyaluronate (0.1 mL/administration, once a week). After 2-week treatment, synovial tissue of the knee joint was harvested to determine the exprssion of TGF-β1, TGF-β1 receptor Ⅰand TGF-β1 receptor Ⅱ. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: TGF-β1 expression in synovial tissue of the knee joint was significantly increased after knee osteoarthris (P < 0.05), but after electro-accupuncture therepy or sodium hyaluronate treatment, TGF-β1 expression was significantly decreased (P < 0.05), moreover, TGF-β1 receptor Ⅰ, Ⅱ expression was signficantly decreased (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that electro-acupuncture for treatment of knee osteoartheis improves the symptoms of osteoarthris by downregulating TGF-β1 expression, and reduction in TGF-β1 receptor Ⅰ, Ⅱ expression promotes the recovery of knee osteoarthris.

Clinical Observation on the Treatment of Relapsed Lumbar Disc Herniation after Disc Surgery by Acupuncture plus Medication / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

Objective:This study was to observe the therapeutic effect of electro-acupuncture combined with Chinese herbal fumigation and application in the treatment of relapsed lumbar disc herniation after lumbar disc surgery.Methods:Eighty-four subjects were randomized into a treatment group and a control group.The treatment group(44subjects)received electroacupuncture plus herbal fumigation and application therapy.The control group(40 subjects)only received electroacupuncture therapy.The therapeutic results were observed and compared afterwards.Results:The total effective rate was 90.9% in the treatment group and 82.5% in the control group.and the difierence was statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion:The combined therapy of electroacupuncture with Chinese herbal fumigation and application has better therapeutic effect than mono-electroacupuncture in the treatment of post-surgery relapsed lumbar disc herniation.

Clinical Effect and Infrared Thermogram on Electroacupuncture for Acute Lumbar Sprain / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

Objective: To observe the clinical effect and infra-red thermogram changes for acute lumbar sprain. Methods: All 295 cases with acute lumbar sprain were randomly divided into an electroacupuncture group (147 cases) and medication group (148 cases). The cases in electroacupuncture group were treated by needling Houxi (SI 3), whereas those in the medication group were treated with Meloxicam tablet. The infra-red thermogram was observed before and after treatment. Results: The recovery and effective rates in the electroacupuncture group were 71.4% and 93.9%, whereas the rates in the medication groups were 42.6% and 87.2% (P＜0.01). The temperature differences via the thermogram in the electroacupuncture and medication groups were 2.52℃ and 0.80℃ (P＜0.01), indicating a significant difference.Conclusion: Both electroacupuncture and medication could obtain significant effect for acute lumbar sprain; however, electroacupuncture obtained a better overall effect and a more substantial temperature-raising effect in the thermogram than medication.

The effect of simultaneously blocking target epidermal growth factor receptortyrosine kinase and cyclooxygenase-2 on the growth of NPC cell / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

This study was designed to prove simultaneously blocking both EGFR and COX-2-medi-ated pathways may be an efficient means of inhibiting cancer cell growth in NPC. Method: A combination of tarceva (EGFR-selectivetyrosine kinase inhibitors) with celecoxib(Cox-2 inhibitor) was studied on its effects on cell growth, cell cycle progression, apoptosis and protein expression in CNE-2 cell lines by cell growth assay, flow cy-tometric analysis assay and Western blotting. Result: ①The inhibition rate of cell growth was higher in the group treated with a combination of two agents than that the sum of rates of the two groups treated with only one agent (P0.05). ③The group of combination showed less expressions of p-EGFR and COX-2 than any other group. Conclusion Simultaneously blocking EGFR and COX-2 mediated pathways would significantly in-hibit the growth of CNE-2 cell line, increase G_1 arrest and reduce the expression levels of p-EGFR and COX-2.

Clinical Observation on Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Warm Needling Method / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of warm needling method for knee osteoarthritis. Methods: Three hundred cases were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, 150 cases respectively in each group. The treatment group was treated by warm needling method, and the control group was treated by simple acupuncture. Their therapeutic effects were compared after 20 sessions of treatments. Results: The effective rate was 94.0% in the treatment group and 86.0% in the control group, with a significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: The therapeutic effect is better in the warm needling group than in the control group in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.

Clinical Study on Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis with Combined Acupuncture and Medication / 针灸推拿医学（英文版）

Objective: To observe the effect of treatment for proliferative knee osteoarthritis (KOA) using combined acupuncture and medicated compression. Method: All 328 cases were randomized into an observation and control group, 164 cases in each. Combined acupuncture and medicated compression were adopted in the observation group, while oral administration of Zhui Feng Tou Gu Wan (Wind-removing and Bone-penetrating Pills) were adopted in the control group. The clinical effects in the two groups were evaluated 40 days after the treatment. Result: There were significant differences in both marked and total effective rates (P<0.05). Conclusion: Combined acupuncture and medicated compression can obtain better effect for KOA than oral administration of the Wind-Removing and Bone-Penetrating pills.

The adipocytokine levels and their association with insulin resistance among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose regulation in Guangxi Province / 中国糖尿病杂志

In the study of T2DM(n=30),IGR(n=26) and NGT(n=30) cases in Guangxi Province,T2DM had higher resistin and PAI-1 levels than did the groups of IGR and NGT(P<0.05).IGR had higher levels of PAI-1 and leptin than NGT(P<0.05).Leptin level of T2DM was higher than that of NGT(P<0.05).Insulin resistance index was positively correlated with leptin,TG and PAI-1 levels(P<0.05).

Minor Phenolic Constituents of Chinaberry-tree (Melia azedarach) / 中草药

Five minor ferulic acid esters (Ⅰ～Ⅴ) were identified in a petrol extract of Melia azedarach stem bark, one (Ⅰ) of which was isolated with no impurity for the first time. By chemical and spectral methods, their structures were elucidated as hexacosylferulate (Ⅰ); tetracosylferulate (Ⅱ); pentacosylferulate (Ⅲ); heptacosylferulate (Ⅳ) and octacosylferulate (Ⅴ), respectively.