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Objective To investigate the relationship between CD4+CD28na cells,oxidative stress markers malondialdehyde(MDA) and superoxide dismutase(SOD) and the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS).Methods Thirty-two patients with PCOS(PCOS group) and 28 healthy women(control group) were selected.Six ml of peripheral venous blood were taken from each person,3 ml of which were separated and serum was collected.Sex hormone level,C-reactive protein (CRP),SOD and MDA were detected.Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from the other 3 ml blood by centrifugation,and CD4+CD28null T cell subsets were detected by flow cytometry.The characteristics of each detected index of PCOS patients and healthy controls were compared.Results The proportion of CD4+CD28null T cells in the peripheral blood of the PCOS group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0.05).The serum CRP and MDA in PCOS group were both significantly higher than that in the control group,and SOD was significantly lower than the control group(P<0.05).Correlation analysis showed that the expression of CD4+CD28null T cells in the PCOS group was positively correlated with CRP(P<0.05) and MDA(P<0.05) and negatively correlated with SOD (P<0.05).Conclusions Our study shows a disorder of immunoregulatory mechanism represented by abnormal increase of CD4+CD28null T cell expression and an imbalance of oxidative stress in patients with PCOS.The further study of relationship between these two pathophysiological patterns and PCOS may help to elucidate its pathogenesis.
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Rehabilitation robotics has become a widely accepted method to deal with the training of people with motor dysfunction. In robotics medium training, shoulder repeated exercise training has been proven beneficial for improving motion ability of human limbs. An important and difficult paradigm for motor function rehabilitation training is the movement rhythm on the shoulder, which is not a single joint but complex and ingenious combination of bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. The most robots for rehabilitation were designed previously considering simplified biomechanical models only, which led to misalignment between robots and human shoulder. Current biomechanical models were merely developed for rehabilitation robotics design. This paper proposes a new hybrid spatial model based on joint geometry constraints to describe the movement of the shoulder skeletal system and establish the position analysis equation of the model by a homogeneous coordinate transformation matrix and vector method, which can be used to calculate the kinematics of human-robot integrated system. The shoulder rhythm, the most remarkable particularity in shoulder complex kinematics and important reference for shoulder training strategy using robotics, is described and analyzed via the proposed skeleton model by three independent variables in this paper. This method greatly simplifies the complexity of the shoulder movement description and provides an important reference for the training strategy making of upper limb rehabilitation via robotics.
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Aim To investigate whether the effect of Aβ25-35 on Bcl-2 and Bax gene transcription through DNA methylation in SH-SY5Y cell.Methods Differ-ent concentrations of Aβ25-35 (0, 25, 50 μmol? L-1 ) were treated with SH-SY5Y cells for 48 h or 72 h in vitro.The optimal concentration and time of Aβ25-35 in-duced SH-SY5 Y apoptosis were determined by MTT method.Protein expression levels of Bcl-2 and Bax of Aβ25-35-treated groups were determined by Western blot.Real time PCR was used to detect the mRNA lev-els of DNA methyltransferase including DNMT 1 , DN-MT3a, DMT3b, MeCP2. Methylation specific PCR ( MSP) was used to analyze the effect of Aβ25-35 media-ted Bcl-2 and Bax gene promoter methylation .Results 25 μmol? L-1 Aβ25-35 was exposed to SH-SY5Y cells for 72 h, MTT assay showed that cell viability was (68.49 ±9.83 )%, which was significantly reduced compared with the control group ( P 0.05 ); MSP results showed that Bcl-2 and Bax unmethylated ampli-fication was positive , methylated amplification was neg-ative in control group , Bcl-2 and Bax unmethylated amplification was positive and methylated amplification was negative in Aβ25-35-treated group.Conclusion DNA methylation of Bcl-2 and Bax gene promoter are not affected during Aβ25-35 induced SH-SY5Y cell ap-optosis .
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Objective Using serum pharmacology method to assess the optimal dose of Rhodiolasachalinensis extract (RSE)and Codonopsispilosula extract (CPE)combination as well as the effects of the combination on the immune function of mice.Methods Using the 3×3 facterial design,nine medicated serum of CPE and RSE mixture were made to assess the optimum combinational dose of CPE and RSE by detecting the T,B lymphocyte proliferation abilities and NK cell activity in vitro .Using the optimum combinational dose and reducing 2.5,5 and 10 times as high,middle and low doses of RSE+CPE groups,and the T,B lymphocyte proliferation abilities and the activity of NK cells in the mice were detected in vivo .Results The result of serum pharmacology indicates that compared with control group,the proliferation abilities of T,B lymphocytes and the activity of NK cells inducing by ConA and LPS in 200 mg· kg-1 RSE + 790 mg· kg-1 CPE group were increased (P < 0.05).The result of in vivo experiment indicated that compared with cyclophosphamide group,the spleen indexes (SI)in middle and high doses of RSE+CPE groups were significantly increased (P <0.05);compared with low dose of RSE+CPE group,the WBC number in middle dose of RSE + CPEgroup was significantly increased (P < 0.05 ). Compared with cyclophosphamide group,the T and B cell proliferation abilities induced with ConA and LPS and killing activities of NK cells in low,middle and high doses of RSE+CPE groups and positive drug CVT-200 group were significantly increased (P <0.05).Compared with CVT-200 group,low and high doses of RSE+CPE groups,the T and B cell proliferation abilities induced with ConA and LPS and the activity of NK cells in middle dose of RSE+CPE group were significantly increased (P <0.05).Conclusion RSE and CPE mixture can enhance the immune function of mice;RES 200 mg·kg-1 and CPE 790 mg·kg-1 are the optimal doses.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To analyze the trends in treatments of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease and their prognosis in the recent 10 years.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Clinical data of inpatients with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease who received surgical treatments in Xuanwu Hospital from January 2002 to December 2011 were analyzed retrospectively. Patients were stratified into two groups (group 1: from 2002 to 2006, group 2: from 2007 to 2011). The demographics, risk factors, clinical presentation, lesion anatomy, therapies, limb salvage and survival were observed. χ(2) test, Fisher exact test, and t test were used to compare the data between the two groups.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>From 2002 to 2006, 170 limbs (47.49%) underwent conventional bypass surgery, 72 limbs (20.11%) underwent endovascular interventions and the rest 116 limbs (32.40%) received stem cell treatment. While from 2007 to 2011, the percentages were 18.49%, 68.73%, 8.27%, respectively. Furthermore, gene-based drug appeared, 67 limbs (4.51%) underwent the new treatment. Former group had decreased limb salvage rates compared with latter group (87.15% vs. 93.41%, χ(2)=15.71, P=0.000). However, survival rates did not differ from the two groups (84.67% vs. 84.31%, χ(2)=0.02, P=0.880).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>With the appearance of new medical instruments and operating methods, the percentage of the patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease receive endovascular interventions increases, with a improved limb salvage rates.</p>
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Humanos , Isquemia , Recuperación del Miembro , Extremidad Inferior , Patología , Enfermedad Arterial Periférica , Diagnóstico , Cirugía General , Terapéutica , Pronóstico , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Trasplante de Células Madre , Tasa de Supervivencia , Resultado del Tratamiento , Injerto Vascular , Grado de Desobstrucción VascularRESUMEN
Objective To analyze the influence of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the outcomes of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) with stenting of femoropopliteal artery,in patients with atherosclerotic occlusive disease (ASO).Method Clinical data of inpatients who successfully received PTA with stenting procedures of femoropopliteal artery in Xuanwu Hospital from January 2006 to December 2012 were analyzed retrospectively.Patients were stratified into DM and non-DM groups.Results were compared between the two groups including primary patency (PP),assisted patency (AP),limb salvage and survival using Kaplan-Meier life table and Cox regression analyses.Result Totally 291 patients underwent 332 procedures.There were 214 DM and 118 non-DM limbs.Mean follow-up was 34 months.The 5-year PP was 23.2%,AP was 35.3%,limb salvage was 89.2%,and survival was 69.6%.DM was associated with lower 5-year PP,limb salvage,and survival than non-DM.But there were no significant difference in AP between the two groups.Females were associated with decreased PP than males on Cox multivariate analysis.Hypertension and below tibial diseases were associated with lower limb salvage rate and age is the only predictor of survival rate.Conclusions DM is a risk factor for poor outcomes after PTA with stenting procedures.
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Aim To investigate the effect of polysac-charide of Cistanche deserticola ( CDPS) on the impro-ving ability of synaptic plasticity in memory acquisition impairment model mice induced by scopolamine. Methods The KM mice were randomly divided into six groups:scopolamine group, control group, CDPS-treated (25, 50, 100 mg·kg-1 ) group and donepezil group. Memory acquisition impairment model in mice was established with i. p. scopolamine (4 mg·kg-1 ) only once, and orally administered CDPS (25, 50, or 100 mg · kg-1 ) daily for 6 weeks before scopolamine injection. Experimental groups were subjected to step-down test and Morris water maze test. Western blot and RT-PCR analysis were used to examine the expression of GAP-43 , SYP and PSD-95 . Transmission electron microscope was used to observe the change of synaptic number and structures. Results CDPS (25,50,100 mg·kg-1 ) could shorten the incubation period of mice in the water maze test. Control group and CDPS-treated group swam longer in Q3 than scopolamine group. Mo-reover, CDPS (50,100 mg·kg-1 ) could significantly reduce the error times and extend the incubation period in the step-down test. The results of Western blot and RT-PCR showed that CDPS significantly improved the expression of GAP-43 at the dose of 25 ,50 mg · kg-1 and SYP at the dose of 25,50, 100 mg·kg-1 in hip-pocampus of mice. However, the biochemical assays did not reveal a significant difference in the basal hipp-ocampal levels of the PSD-95 . The ultra-thin speci-mens of hippocampus showed that the number of syn- apse was increased in CDPS-treated group. Conclu-sions Scopolamine can induce the learning and mem-ory deficits in mice to make related protein expression abnormalities in hippocampus mice, thus this causes the change of synaptic plasticity, which leads to a change in the ability of learning and memory. And CDPS can improve the expression of SYP and GAP-43 , increase number of synapses, recover synaptic plastici-ty, and improve the ability of learning and memory in mice.
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Objective To investigate the value of individualized thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) inhibition therapy in postoperative patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.Methods The medical record and follow-up data of the 556 patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma after total or neartotal thyroidectomy were retrospectively reviewed.Patients were divided into two groups:Group A (304 cases) received TSH suppression therapy without risk assessment.Group B (252 cases) were given TSH suppression therapy in accord with risk assessment of both differentiated thyroid cancer recurrence risk stratification condition and the side effects of TSH suppression therapy risk stratification.Results The 3-year non-recurrence and (or) non-metastasis rate in group B was 99.2% which was higher than 96.8% in group A (P =0.044).The hospitalization rate caused by postoperative cardiovascular events or other morbidities in group B decreased 89% than that in group A.Conclusions Individualized TSH suppression therapy can significantly decrease the recurrence and metastasis rate as well as concurrent morbidities caused by unnecessary TSH inhibition.
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Objective To investigate the cervical loop electrosurgical excision procedure for treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia clinical effect.Methods 86 CIN patients medical records and follow-up results were retrospectively analyze.Operation and postoperative condition,observation,follow-up results and preoperative,postoperative pathological examination were arelyzed.Results The operation time of 5 ~ 25min,an average of (10.5 ±3.5) min ; bleeding volume was 4 ~ 50ml,average (12.4 ± 8.6) ml,CIN Ⅲ maximum amount of bleeding was (45.2 ±4.2) ml; preoperative,postoperative pathological examination showed no significant difference,no statistical significance (P > 0.05) ; postoperative reviewed in June,86patients were cured in 84 cases,cytology of normal,2 cases of postoperative examination without CIN,June queen recheck recurrence,the cure rate was 96.51% ;after 1 weeks pestoperatively in varying degrees of infiltration liquid,about 10d decrustation,and a small amount of bleeding,5 cases of postoperative hemorrhage,more 60 ~ 70ml,the local electric coagulation hemostasis after hemostasis,thrse months later review,all patients showed normal cervix,and smooth,6 months follow-up of 2cases of recurrence,CIN Ⅱ,12 months follow-up showed no recurrence case new.Conclusion The cervical loop electrosurgical excision procedure was many advantages in treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia,such as postoperative patients recover faster,worthy of clinical application.
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The SPECT imaging process has two fundamental stages: detection and display. The detection stage can be rigorously quantitatively described by Shannon's information theory. Information is transferred from the source to the detector in the photon emitting process. In the detection stage, integrity of projection data can be assessed by the information entropy, which is the conditional entropy standing for the average uncertainty of the source object under the condition of projection data. Simulations were performed to study projection data of emission computed tomography with a coded aperture collimator. Several types of coded aperture collimators were treated. Results demonstrate that the conditional entropy shows the data integrity, and indicate how the algorithms are matched or mismatched to the geometry. A new method for assessing data integrity is devised for those decision makers.
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In order to improve the computation speed of ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm for fully 3-D single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) reconstruction, an experimental beowulf-type cluster was built and several parallel reconstruction schemes were described. We implemented a single-program-multiple-data (SPMD) parallel 3-D OSEM reconstruction algorithm based on message passing interface (MPI) and tested it with combinations of different number of calculating processors and different size of voxel grid in reconstruction (64×64×64 and 128×128×128). Performance of parallelization was evaluated in terms of the speedup factor and parallel efficiency. This parallel implementation methodology is expected to be helpful to make fully 3-D OSEM algorithms more feasible in clinical SPECT studies.