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BMC Gastroenterol ; 24(1): 72, 2024 Feb 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38355421

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is gradually becoming a huge threat to public health. With complex working characteristics, female nurses had been found with high risk of NAFLD. To develop and validate a prediction model to predict the prevalence of NAFLD based on demographic characteristics, work situation, daily lifestyle and laboratory tests in female nurses. METHODS: This study was a part of the Chinese Nurse Cohort Study (The National Nurse Health Study, NNHS), and data were extracted from the first-year follow data collected from 1st June to 1st September 2021 by questionnaires and physical examination records in a comprehensive tertiary hospital. The questionnaires included demographic characteristics, work situation and daily lifestyle. Logistic regression and a nomogram were used to develop and validate the prediction model. RESULTS: A total of 824 female nurses were included in this study. Living situation, smoking history, monthly night shift, daily sleep time, ALT/AST, FBG, TG, HDL-C, UA, BMI, TBil and Ca were independent risk factors for NAFLD occurance. A prediction model for predicting the prevalence of NAFLD among female nurses was developed and verified in this study. CONCLUSION: Living situation, smoking history, monthly night shift, daily sleep time, ALT/AST, FBG, TG, UA, BMI and Ca were independent predictors, while HDL-C and Tbil were independent protective indicators of NAFLD occurance. The prediction model and nomogram could be applied to predict the prevalence of NAFLD among female nurses, which could be used in health improvement. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This study was a part of the Chinese Nurse Cohort Study (The National Nurse Health Study, NNHS), which was a ambispective cohort study contained past data and registered at Clinicaltrials.gov ( https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04572347 ) and the China Cohort Consortium ( http://chinacohort.bjmu.edu.cn/project/102/ ).


Subject(s)
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease , Humans , Female , Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/epidemiology , Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/diagnosis , Cohort Studies , Prevalence , Risk Factors , Internet , China/epidemiology
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Int Arch Occup Environ Health ; 96(10): 1361-1371, 2023 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37874403

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Efforts to improve nurses' physical and mental health are critical to ensuring the safety and quality of the healthcare system. Long-term studies targeting the relevancy of nurses' occupation characteristics with health conditions remain insufficient. This study aimed to examine the relationship between nurses' night shift and sleep problems and metabolic abnormalities risk. METHODS: This study was a part of the National Nurse Health Study, an ambispective cohort study in China, in 2021. Based on an integration physical examination data system, this study carried out a retrospective analysis of 730 nurses from 2018 to 2020 and combined with a questionnaire survey in 2021. The STROBE guidelines were adopted for reporting. RESULTS: In the 23 (23.0, 24.0) months follow-up, higher night shift load was associated with more sleep problems such as shortened sleep duration, sleep disorders, poor sleep quality, and sleep deprivation. Moreover, night shift load was associated with chronic diseases risk factors, increasing body mass index and body fat, with more night shift density, increasing the occurrence of low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high triglyceride, triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, and serum uric acid. CONCLUSION: The night shift load has become an occupational health concern, contributing to chronic diseases relevant metabolic risk factors and negative influence on sleep health. Focus on the strategies to improve the sleep quality of nurses undergoing night shift work, optimize work scheduling and ongoing monitor the relevant risk factors are essential to enhance the stability and well-being of the nursing workforce. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION INFORMATION: NCT04572347, on October 1, 2020. https://www. CLINICALTRIALS: gov/ct2/show/NCT04572347.


Subject(s)
Nurses , Work Schedule Tolerance , Humans , Retrospective Studies , Cohort Studies , Follow-Up Studies , Uric Acid , Sleep , Sleep Deprivation , Chronic Disease , Triglycerides , Lipoproteins, HDL , Cholesterol
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Biomolecules ; 13(7)2023 07 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37509112

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Many people suffer from hair loss and abnormal skin pigmentation, highlighting the need for simple assays to support drug discovery research. Current assays have various limitations, such as being in vitro only, not sensitive enough, or unquantifiable. We took advantage of the bilateral symmetry and large size of mouse whisker follicles to develop a novel in vivo assay called "whisker follicle microinjection assay". In this assay, we plucked mouse whiskers and then injected molecules directly into one side of the whisker follicles using microneedles that were a similar size to the whiskers, and we injected solvent on the other side as a control. Once the whiskers grew out again, we quantitatively measured their length and color intensity to evaluate the effects of the molecules on hair growth and coloring. Several chemicals and proteins were used to test this assay. The chemicals minoxidil and ruxolitinib, as well as the protein RSPO1, promoted hair growth. The effect of the clinical drug minoxidil could be detected at a concentration as low as 0.001%. The chemical deoxyarbutin inhibited melanin production. The protein Nbl1 was identified as a novel hair-growth inhibitor. In conclusion, we successfully established a sensitive and quantitative in vivo assay to evaluate the effects of chemicals and proteins on hair growth and coloring and identified a novel regulator by using this assay. This whisker follicle microinjection assay will be useful when investigating protein functions and when developing drugs to treat hair loss and abnormal skin pigmentation.


Subject(s)
Minoxidil , Vibrissae , Mice , Animals , Vibrissae/metabolism , Minoxidil/metabolism , Minoxidil/pharmacology , Microinjections , Hair , Alopecia/drug therapy , Alopecia/metabolism
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Biol Res Nurs ; 25(4): 627-634, 2023 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37271585

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BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that metabolic diseases are risk factors for thyroid disease; most studies are cross-sectional design. We aimed to evaluate the causal relationship between thyroid and metabolic diseases in a cohort of Chinese nurses. METHODS: We conducted an ambispective cohort study of the National Nurses' Health Study. Thyroid disease data based on ultrasonography from 2017 to 2021 were collected. We described thyroid disease incidence and the risk factors associated with a cluster of metabolic factors. We used the Mann‒Whitney U test, repeated-measures ANOVA and multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression to analyze the data. RESULTS: A total of 1529 female nurses without thyroid disease were enrolled in 2017, of which, complete data were available for 1269 nurses. In 2018-2020, thyroid nodule incidence ranged from 32.8%-46.3%, thyroiditis incidence was 13.4%-14.3%, and goiter incidence was 4.1%-29.1%, thyroid adenoma and thyroid tumors incidence were 0.1%-0.5% and 1%-1.5%. We also found that NAFLAD was an independent risk factor for thyroid adenoma (p = .003). The age at diagnosis was an independent risk factor for goiter (p <. 001) and thyroid nodules (p < .001). Fasting blood glucose was an independent risk factor for thyroid tumors (p = .004). The age at diagnosis (p = .003), Body Mass Index (p = .006) and menopause (p = .031) were risk factors for thyroiditis. CONCLUSION: Thyroid disease incidence among nurses is increasing. Age at diagnosis, BMI, fasting blood glucose, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are independent risk factors for different types of thyroid disease. This study provides evidence for future studies to further explore the pathogenesis and prevention of thyroid diseases.


Subject(s)
Goiter , Metabolic Diseases , Thyroid Neoplasms , Thyroid Nodule , Thyroiditis , Humans , Female , Cohort Studies , Cross-Sectional Studies , Blood Glucose , Thyroid Nodule/epidemiology , Thyroid Neoplasms/epidemiology , Risk Factors , Goiter/epidemiology , China/epidemiology
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Asian Nurs Res (Korean Soc Nurs Sci) ; 17(2): 53-60, 2023 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36933769

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PURPOSE: Ankle pump exercises (APE) have been widely used in clinical practice. However, best practices for APE have not been established. Recognize the most effective frequency of APE for improving lower extremity hemodynamics and establish recommendations in clinical practice. METHODS: Therefore, a systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) was performed according to PRISMA-NMA. Six English databases (Pubmed, Medline, CINAHL, Embase, the Cochrane library and ProQuest) and four Chinese databases (CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and Sinomed) were searched. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies investigating the effects of different frequencies of APE on lower limb hemodynamics published before July 2022 were included. The reference list was also searched. Seven studies (one RCTs and six quasi-experimental studies) were included in the systematic review and five studies (one RCTs and four quasi-experimental studies) were included in the NMA. The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane and Joanna Briggs Institute tools. The NMA was performed using the R software (version 4.2.1) and OpenBUGS (version 3.2.3). RESULTS: The results of the NMA showed that a frequency of every 3-4 s the most effective in improving lower extremity hemodynamics (P =.85), followed by every 1-2 s (P = .81), every 5-6 s (P=.32) and less than every 10 s (P =.02). Subgroup analysis failed to find a difference between healthy participants and those with unilateral total hip arthroplasty or fracture (MD = -0.23, 95% CI-5.92 to 4.61). CONCLUSIONS: Consequencely, for adult patients, with or without lower extremity disease, a frequency of every 3-4 s can be recommended as the optimal frequency of APE in clinical care practice. REGISTERED NUMBER ON PROSPERO: CRD42022349365. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=349365.


Subject(s)
Ankle , Hominidae , Adult , Humans , Animals , Network Meta-Analysis , Lower Extremity , Hemodynamics
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Transgenic Res ; 32(1-2): 143-152, 2023 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36637628

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The mouse Agouti gene encodes a paracrine signaling factor which promotes melanocytes to produce yellow instead of black pigment. It has been reported that Agouti mRNA is confined to the dermal papilla after birth in various mammalian species. In this study, we created and characterized a knockin mouse strain in which Cre recombinase was expressed in-frame with endogenous Agouti coding sequence. The Agouti-Cre mice were bred with reporter mice (Rosa26-tdTomato or Rosa26-ZsGreen) to trace the lineage of Agouti-expressing cells during development. In skin, the reporter was detected in some dermal fibroblasts at the embryonic stage and in all dermal fibroblasts postnatally. It was also expressed in all mesenchymal lineage cells in other organs/tissues, including eyes, tongue, muscle, intestine, adipose, prostate and testis. Interestingly, the reporter expression was excluded from epithelial cells in the above organs/tissues. In brain, the reporter was observed in the outermost meningeal fibroblasts. Our work helps to illustrate the Agouti expression pattern during development and provides a valuable mouse strain for conditional gene targeting in mesenchymal lineage cells in multiple organs.


Subject(s)
Agouti Signaling Protein , Animals , Male , Mice , Gene Targeting , Integrases/genetics , Integrases/metabolism , Mice, Transgenic , Agouti Signaling Protein/genetics
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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34840584

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Cyclophosphamide is a commonly used anticancer drug, and immunosuppression is one of the most common side effects. How to recover the immunological function is important for cyclophosphamide-treated patients. In the present study, Phellodendri Cortex polysaccharides (CPP) could enhance the proliferation of mouse spleen lymphocytes in vitro. The immunoregulatory function of CPP was then investigated in cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppressed mice. In CPP-treated groups, mice were orally treated with CPP at doses of 1, 0.5, and 0.25 g/kg bodyweight from 1 to 11 d, respectively. The cyclophosphamide was administrated in CPP and cyclophosphamide groups from 12 to 14 d. In the cyclophosphamide and normal control groups, the mice received equal volume of saline from 1 to 14 d. The results showed that CPP (1 g/kg) could significantly increase the bodyweight of mice, even during cyclophosphamide treatment. The organ coefficients of the spleen and thymus were recovered by CPP treatment. CPP upregulated the contents of cytokines (IL-2, IL-6, IFN-γ, and TNF-α) in serum, which were downregulated by cyclophosphamide. The mRNA levels of these cytokines were also elevated by CPP treatment in the spleen. Cyclophosphamide upregulated the expressions of NF-κB p65, TLR4, and MyD88, suggesting that the NF-κB signaling pathway was activated by cyclophosphamide. After CPP treatment, it was recovered to normal level. These results indicated that CPP alleviated the cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppression.

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Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao ; 32(10): 3557-3566, 2021 Oct.
Article in Chinese | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34676717

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A tree-ring width chronology (STD) was established using tree-ring cores of Pinus yunnanensis from two sites with different altitudes in Western Yunnan, to study the responses of radial growth to climatic and hydrological factors. The results showed that the radial growth of P. yunnanensis in Western Yunnan was mainly affected by precipitation, temperature and runoff. The radial growth of P. yunnanensis at high altitude (2413.3 m) was controlled primarily by high temperature in summer and runoff in the monsoon season. In contrast, the radial growth of P. yunnanensis at low altitude (1062.6 m) was mainly controlled by precipitation in the growing season and annual runoff. The responses of radial growth of P. yunnanensis at high altitude to temperature change was unstable due to the existence of the temperature threshold. Due to the weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in the 1980s, the temporal stability of tree growth response at low altitude to precipitation and runoff fluctuated. The radial growth of P. yunnanensis at different altitudes in Western Yunnan was related to the Asian summer monsoon and El Nio-Southern Oscillation.


Subject(s)
Pinus , Altitude , China , Hydrology , Trees
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Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao ; 32(10): 3661-3670, 2021 Oct.
Article in Chinese | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34676728

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Due to the short-term observation record of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), the research on long-term NDVI changes is scarce, which limits our understanding of the impacts of NDVI changes in the context of global warming. In this study, a regional tree-ring chronology was developed based on the tree-ring samples of Pinus tabuliformis in the middle Qinling Mountains. The results showed that tree-ring width of P. tabuliformis was significantly positively correlated with May-July NDVI (r=0.624, P<0.01, n=34). The Sig-Free tree-ring width chronology was used to reconstruct May-July NDVI during the period 1825-2018, which explained 38.9% of the total NDVI variance. Results of spatial analysis showed that the reconstructed series could better represent the NDVI changes in the study area. There were six high NDVI periods and five low NDVI periods in the past 194 years. The vegetation grew best in 2006-2018, indicating vegetation cove-rage in the middle of Qinling Mountains had been improved during the warming hiatus. Low NDVI periods in the reconstruction series were consistent with drought over much of study area. Results of wavelet analysis indicated the existence of 2-4 years and 12-16 years cycles in the reconstruction series. SEA analysis showed that the reconstruction series decreased significantly in the El Nino year, while increased significantly in the first to third years after the La Nina event. The growth of P. tabuliformis was predicted to increase slightly under the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios.


Subject(s)
Pinus , Droughts , Global Warming , Spatial Analysis , Wavelet Analysis
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BMJ Open ; 11(8): e049958, 2021 08 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34413106

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INTRODUCTION: The physical and mental health of nurses may significantly impact the entire medical care group and directly affect the quality of medical services. Due to the intense emotional involvement and often problematic working conditions that characterise their profession, nurses appear to be especially susceptible to a complex set of stressors with repercussions to their health. Several landmark studies of nurses have provided an abundance of evidence on risk factors that influence the health status of nurses. However, few studies have investigated the health status of nurses who work in high-intensity work environments in China. The National Nurse Health Study (NNHS) objective is to build an ambispective cohort to gather web-based information on early-life events, daily habits, occupational and environmental risk factors, and health outcomes of a specific subset of healthcare professionals of Chinese nurses. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: NNHS, which was developed at a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China, is a research initiative that enrolls registered nurses working at Peking University Third Hospital. A web-based self-administered system was designed to collect health-related data and link them with previous physical examination data. During the study period, participants with signed informed consent will be invited to annually repeat a similar procedure. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The NNHS research protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee and provides promising data that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiological links between early-life events, body composition, gut microbiota, and inflammatory and metabolic risk profiles. Moreover, the combination of a user-friendly tool with the innovative purposes of the NNHS offers a remarkable resource to test hypotheses about mechanisms of diseases, including work stress, and further plan preventive programmes in public health. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: The study was registered on Clinicaltrials.gov (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04572347) and the China Cohort Consortium (http://chinacohort.bjmu.edu.cn/project/102/).


Subject(s)
Gastrointestinal Microbiome , China , Cohort Studies , Humans , Internet , Public Health
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Gene ; 769: 145253, 2021 Feb 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33098939

ABSTRACT

Fibronectin (FN) functions as a potent stimulator of osteogenic differentiation, and bone fracture healing. In FN family, FN1 acts as an interactive protein gene product to mediate chondrocyte adhesion. However, its effect on fracture healing remains elusive. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the involvement of FN1 in fracture healing. Hard callus formations were found at fracture site with thicker periosteum in lateral cortical bone area outside the fracture site in model mice. The decreased number of osteogenic cells in the middle of the callus region and increased extracellular matrix were suggestive of successful induction. Immunoblotting and RT-qPCR revealed that expression of FN1 was increased in tissues of fracture mice. As displayed by Safranin-fast green staining hematoxylin-eosin staining, the overexpression of FN1 at fracture site promoted osteoid formation and chondrocyte differentiation. The stimulating role of FN1 in collagen production was evidenced by increased levels of Col2, Col1, ColX, Osteonectin, and Osteocalcin and enhanced BMD, BV, BV/TV and Tb.Th values verified by immunoblotting and immunohistochemical staining. Additionally, the upregulation of FN1 contributed to promoted TGF-ß, c-Caspase-9/t-Caspase-9 ratio and NF-κB p65 protein expression as well as lowered p-PI3K/PI3K and p-AKT/AKT ratios, implying the positive correlation between FN1 and the TGF-ß/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. The key findings of the present study provided evidence indicating that overexpression of FN1 contributes to fracture healing by activation of the TGF-ß/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway.


Subject(s)
Cell Differentiation/physiology , Chondrocytes/cytology , Collagen/biosynthesis , Femoral Fractures/metabolism , Fibronectins/physiology , Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism , Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism , Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism , Animals , Chondrocytes/metabolism , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Nude
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J Bone Miner Metab ; 39(2): 126-138, 2021 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33079278

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INTRODUCTION: Recent studies have indicated the potential of stem cell therapy in combination with cytokines to restore the bone repair via migration and homing of stem cells to the defected area. The present study aimed to investigate the mobilization and recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in response to SDF-1. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Herein, the knockout rat model of the bone defect (BD) was treated with the induced membrane technique. Then, wild type Wistar rats and SDF-1-knockout rats were selected for the establishment of BD-induced membrane (BD-IM) models and bone-graft (BG) models. The number of MSCs was evaluated by flow cytometry, along with the expression pattern of the SDF-1/CXCR4 axis as well as osteogenic factors was identified by RT-qPCR and Western blot analyses. Finally, the MSC migration ability was assessed by the Transwell assay. RESULTS: Our data illustrated that in the induced membrane tissues, the number of MSCs among the BD-IM modeled rats was increased, whereas, a lower number was documented among BG modeled rats. Besides, we found that lentivirus-mediated over-expression of SDF-1 in BG modeled rats could activate the SDF-1/CXCR4 axis, mobilize MSCs into the defect area, and up-regulate the osteogenic proteins. CONCLUSIONS: Collectively, our study speculated that up-regulation of SDF-1 promotes the mobilization and migration of MSCs through the activation of the SDF-1/CXCR4 signal pathway.


Subject(s)
Bone and Bones/pathology , Cell Movement/drug effects , Chemokine CXCL12/pharmacology , Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology , Receptors, CXCR4/metabolism , Animals , Biomarkers/metabolism , Bone Marrow/drug effects , Bone Marrow/pathology , Bone Transplantation , Bone and Bones/diagnostic imaging , Bone and Bones/drug effects , Disease Models, Animal , Femur/diagnostic imaging , Femur/drug effects , Femur/pathology , Male , Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation , Mesenchymal Stem Cells/drug effects , Mesenchymal Stem Cells/metabolism , Osteogenesis/drug effects , Osteogenesis/genetics , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Rats, Wistar , Signal Transduction/drug effects , Up-Regulation/drug effects , Up-Regulation/genetics
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Int J Nurs Knowl ; 31(3): 173-179, 2020 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31697041

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability, validity, responsiveness, importance, and application level of the Core Nursing Outcomes Evaluation System for inpatients with stroke. METHODS: The reliability, validity, responsiveness, importance, and application level were evaluated by expert scoring, clinical measurement, and questionnaire survey. RESULTS: The scale-level content validity index (S-CVI) and item-level content validity index (I-CVI) were >0.8. The scoring of intraclass coefficient of all indicators was >0.600 (p < .001). There were significant differences in the total scores among patients with different severities (p < .001). Compared with total scores at admission, the total scores at discharge were significantly improved (p < .01). The importance and application level scores of all indexes are >4.5 points. CONCLUSION: The system has higher reliability, validity, responsiveness, and importance, but the application of each dimension is disproportionate. Stroke is an acute cerebrovascular disease characterized by cerebral ischemia and hemorrhagic injury. Epidemiological findings revealed that stroke is the second leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the world (Feigin et al., 2014). Epidemiological survey of 600,000 people in China showed that the prevalence of stroke has been increasing over the past 30 years (Sun & Wang, 2018). At present, stroke has become the first cause of death among Chinese residents (Wang, 2018; Zhou et al., 2016). In surviving patients with stroke, more than 60% of patients had different degrees of neurological dysfunction (Wang, Liu, Yang, Peng, & Wang, 2018), about 40% of them had severe disabilities (You & Wu, 2016). About 60% of first onset stroke patients were associated with higher risk of recurrence (Wang et al., 2018). With increasing age, the global burden of stroke is becoming heavier and heavier (Johnston, Mendis & Mathers, 2009). In 2015, the cost of stroke treatment in China reached about 29.2 billion RMB, bringing heavy economic burden to families as well as society (Ma, 2018). From the above data, we deduced that stroke has characteristics of high prevalence rate, high disability rate, high mortality rate, and high recurrence rate. It is one of the important causes of death and disability, seriously threatening human health and has become an important public health problem faced by Chinese society currently.


Subject(s)
Inpatients , Outcome Assessment, Health Care , Stroke/nursing , Adult , Humans , Reproducibility of Results , Young Adult
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J Cancer Res Ther ; 14(7): 1492-1496, 2018.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30589028

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: I-125 seed implantation has been widely applied in the local treatment of advanced malignant tumor. It has the advantages of providing a high dose of treatment to the target sites and low dose to normal tissues. It has been mostly applied as palliative treatment for recurrences in advanced malignant tumor (except for prostate cancer), suppressing tumor development and improving the quality of life of patients. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate changes in quality of life for patients with advanced malignant tumor after receiving I-125 seed implantation using a three-dimensional (3D)-printed individualized template and computed tomography (CT) guidance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this prospective study, convenience sampling was applied for patients with advanced tumors attending a tertiary hospital. The European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-C30 was involved to assess quality of life. Patients completed the questionnaire before and 24 h after seed implantation. The questionnaire of 1 and 3 months after seed implantation was completed by telephonic follow-up. RESULTS: A total of 42 patients were included (24 males and 18 females), with an average age of 58.86 ± 14.13 years (ranged 25-91 years). The average scale score after seed implantation was higher than that of before implantation. The order was the average scale score 1 month after seed implantation >3 months after seed implantation >24 h after seed implantation. CONCLUSION: The results suggested that the quality of life could be improved with I-125 seed implantation using a 3D-printed individualized template under CT guidance in patients with the advanced malignant tumor.


Subject(s)
Brachytherapy , Iodine Radioisotopes , Neoplasms/diagnosis , Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Quality of Life , Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted , Radiotherapy, Image-Guided , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brachytherapy/methods , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Staging , Neoplasms/mortality , Radiotherapy, Image-Guided/methods , Treatment Outcome
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Cell Physiol Biochem ; 35(6): 2135-48, 2015.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25896148

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship among Rac1 expression and activation, oxidative stress and ß cell dysfunction in obesity. METHODS: In vivo, serum levels of glucose, insulin, oxidative stress markers and Rac1 expression were compared between ob/ob mice and C57BL/6J controls. Then, these variables were rechecked after the administration of the specific Rac1 inhibitor-NSC23766 in ob/ob mice. In vitro, NIT-1 ß cells were cultured in a hyperglycemic and/or hyperlipidemic state with or without NSC23766, and the differences of Rac1 expression and translocation, NADPH oxidase(Nox) enzyme activity, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and insulin mRNA were observed. RESULTS: ob/ob mice displayed abnormal glycometabolism, oxidative stress and excessive expression of Rac1 in the pancreas. NSC23766 injection inhibited the expression of Rac1 in the pancreas, along with amelioration of oxidative stress and glycometabolism in obese mice. Under hyperglycemic and/or hyperlipidemic conditions, Rac1 translocated to the cellular membrane, induced activation of the NADPH oxidase enzyme and oxidative stress, and simultaneously reduced the insulin mRNA expression in NIT-1 ß cells. Inhibiting Rac1 activity could alleviate oxidative stress and meliorate the decline of insulin mRNA in ß cells. CONCLUSIONS: Rac1 might contribute to oxidative stress systemically and locally in the pancreas in obesity. The excessive activation and expression of Rac1 in obesity were associated with ß cell dysfunction through ROS production.


Subject(s)
Insulin-Secreting Cells/pathology , Neuropeptides/metabolism , Obesity/metabolism , Obesity/pathology , Oxidative Stress/physiology , rac1 GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism , Aminoquinolines/pharmacology , Animals , Cell Membrane/metabolism , Hyperglycemia/metabolism , Hyperglycemia/physiopathology , Hyperlipidemias/metabolism , Hyperlipidemias/physiopathology , Insulin/metabolism , Insulin-Secreting Cells/metabolism , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , NADPH Oxidases/metabolism , Pyrimidines/pharmacology , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism
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Bull Environ Contam Toxicol ; 88(4): 533-7, 2012 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22349287

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QuEChERS procedure and acetonitrile extraction, oscillation and ultrasonic procedure followed by GC-MS and LC-MS/MS (QqQ) detections were established for determination of diethyl aminoethyl hexanoate (DA-6) residues in pakchoi, cotton leaf, cotton seed and soil. At concentration levels of 0.005-1 mg kg(-1), recoveries were in the range of 80.5%-103.3%, with a RSD less than 14.2%. The LOQs of methods were 0.005, 0.003, 0.005 and 0.001 mg kg(-1) for the pakchoi, cotton leaf, soil and cotton seed samples, respectively. DA-6 was applied in supervised field trials at GAP conditions to pakchoi and cotton. It was found that the dissipation half-lives of DA-6 were 5.4-8.2 days and 1.1-2.2 days and 1.5-1.9 days in cotton crop, pakchoi and soil respectively. At harvest, no detectable residues (

Subject(s)
Caproates/chemistry , Gossypium/chemistry , Plant Growth Regulators/chemistry , Soil Pollutants/chemistry , Soil/chemistry , Caproates/analysis , China , Crops, Agricultural/chemistry , Environmental Monitoring , Plant Growth Regulators/analysis , Soil Pollutants/analysis
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