Comparative effect of electroacupuncture and moxibustion on the expression of substance P and vasoactive intestinal peptide in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the impacts of electroacu puncture (EA) and moxibustion (Mox) on the prima ry gastrointestinal symptoms and the expressions of colonic mucosa-associated neuropeptide substance P (SP) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in patients with either diarrhea-predominant or constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D and IBS-C, respectively). METHODS: Eighty-five IBS patients were randomly allocated to the EA and Mox groups. Zusanli (ST 36) and Shangjuxu (ST 37) were selected as acupoints for electroacupuncture or warm moxibustion treatment once a day for 14 consecutive days. Before and after the treatment sessions, a Visual Analog Pain Scale and the Bristol Stool Form Scale were used to evaluate gastrointestinal symptoms. There were four dropout cases, leaving 81 participants (41 with IBS-D and 40 with IBS-C) who volunteered to undergo colonoscopy before and after the treatment sessions. During colonoscopy, sigmoid mucosa were collected to detect SP and VIP expression using immunohistochemistry assay. RESULTS: Both EA and Mox treatments were effective at relieving abdominal pain in IBS-D and IBS-C patients. However, Mox was more effective at reducing diarrhea in IBS-D patients, whereas EA was more effective at improving constipation in IBS-C patients. EA and Mox treatments both down-regulated the abnormally increased SP and VIP expression in the colonic mucosa, with no significant difference shown between the two treatments. CONCLUSION: Both EA and Mox treatments are effective at ameliorating gastrointestinal symptoms by reducing SP and VIP expression in the colonic mucosa of IBS patients.

Correlation between alexithymia and disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective:To explore the influencing factors of disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury, and analyze the correlation between alexithymia and disability acceptance.Methods:The convenience sampling method was used to select 276 patients with spinal cord injury admitted to Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical College from October 2018 to June 2020 as the research objects. The general information questionnaire, the Toronto Alexitymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Acceptance of Disability Scale (ADS) was used to conduct the survey, Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between alexitymia and disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury, hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the factors that affect the disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury.Results:The total score of ADS of 276 patients with spinal cord injury was (172.68 ± 37.72) points, and the total score of TAS-20 was (55.60 ± 9.49) points. The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that all dimensions and total score of TAS-20 were negatively correlated with all dimensions and total score of ADS ( r values were -0.821--0.101, all P<0.05). The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that gender, course of disease, post-injury working status were the risk factors of disability acceptance ( P<0.05), and alexithymia was the protective factor of disability acceptance( P<0.05), gender, course of disease, post-injury working status and alexithymia level could jointly explain the 22.1% variation in disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury. Conclusions:The disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury is at a moderate level, and alexitymia is negatively correlated with disability acceptance. alexitymia, gender, course of disease, and post-injury work status are the influencing factors of disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury.

Analysis of clinical characteristics of severe and critically ill influenza A (HIN1) / 中华危重病急救医学

Objective To investigate the clinical features, laboratory results, chest CT imaging manifestations and treatments of severe and critical influenza A (H1N1), and to analyze the relationship with the prognosis. Methods The clinical data of 54 adult patients with severe and critical H1N1 admitted to the Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning from November 2018 to February 2019 were analyzed retrospectively. Throat swab specimens of the patients were determined for nucleic acid detection of influenza A (H1N1) virus, and all of the patients were confirmed. The gender, age, course of disease, underlying diseases, symptoms, body temperature, hospital stays, chest CT findings and laboratory results were collected, and the treatments and prognosis were recorded. Results Of 54 patients, 38 patients were enrolled in severe group, and 16 in critical group. Fever, cough, sputum, shortness of breath and so on could be found in the two groups. The CD4+ T lymphocytes were less than normal reference value (410-1 590/μL) in both groups. The chest CT findings manifestations of severe group were scattered patchy shadows and ground glass appearance, all of them were cured and discharged after antiviral, antibiotics, and oxygen treatment. In critical group, the time in hospital was longer, the disease progresses varied faster, the shortness of breath was more apparent, and a large patch of fuzzy and real change shadows on both lungs could be found from CT findings. Compared with the severe group, creatine kinase (CK), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) levels in the critical group were increased more significantly [CK (U/L): 704.50 (908.50) vs. 146.00 (220.75), LDH (U/L): 614.50 (492.25) vs. 217.00 (142.75), CRP (mg/L):85.65 (56.13) vs. 18.80 (50.63), PCT (μg/L): 1.30 (5.00) vs. 0.10 (0.16), all P < 0.01], white blood cells count (WBC) and neutrophil ratio were also increased more significantly [WBC (×109/L): 12.37±7.63 vs. 8.29±3.32, neutrophil ratio:0.81±0.11 vs. 0.75±0.11] without statistical differences (both P > 0.05). Nine patients in critical group were cured with cure rate of 56.25%. Seven patients died with mortality of 43.75%, including 2 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and uremia respectively, who had multiple organ failure (MOF) on admission and waive the mechanical ventilation treatment; 3 patients complicated with acute renal failure but abandon hemodialysis; 1 patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma radiotherapy after operation; and 1 patient with chronic renal failure uremia period combined multiple drug-resistant bacteria infection, and died from MOF finally. Conclusions The patients with severe and critical influenza A (H1N1) show fever, cough, dyspnea, and organ dysfunction in varying degrees. Severe patients were mainly pulmonary lesions, while critical patients show MOF such as heart, lung and kidney, and the lesions progressed rapidly. The major cause of death for critical influenza A (H1N1) may be chronic underlying diseases and MOF.

Analysis of clinical characteristics of severe and critically ill influenza A (HIN1) / 中华危重病急救医学

Objective@#To investigate the clinical features, laboratory results, chest CT imaging manifestations and treatments of severe and critical influenza A (H1N1), and to analyze the relationship with the prognosis.@*Methods@#The clinical data of 54 adult patients with severe and critical H1N1 admitted to the Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning from November 2018 to February 2019 were analyzed retrospectively. Throat swab specimens of the patients were determined for nucleic acid detection of influenza A (H1N1) virus, and all of the patients were confirmed. The gender, age, course of disease, underlying diseases, symptoms, body temperature, hospital stays, chest CT findings and laboratory results were collected, and the treatments and prognosis were recorded.@*Results@#Of 54 patients, 38 patients were enrolled in severe group, and 16 in critical group. Fever, cough, sputum, shortness of breath and so on could be found in the two groups. The CD4+ T lymphocytes were less than normal reference value (410-1 590/μL) in both groups. The chest CT findings manifestations of severe group were scattered patchy shadows and ground glass appearance, all of them were cured and discharged after antiviral, antibiotics, and oxygen treatment. In critical group, the time in hospital was longer, the disease progresses varied faster, the shortness of breath was more apparent, and a large patch of fuzzy and real change shadows on both lungs could be found from CT findings. Compared with the severe group, creatine kinase (CK), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) levels in the critical group were increased more significantly [CK (U/L): 704.50 (908.50) vs. 146.00 (220.75), LDH (U/L): 614.50 (492.25) vs. 217.00 (142.75), CRP (mg/L): 85.65 (56.13) vs. 18.80 (50.63), PCT (μg/L): 1.30 (5.00) vs. 0.10 (0.16), all P < 0.01], white blood cells count (WBC) and neutrophil ratio were also increased more significantly [WBC (×109/L): 12.37±7.63 vs. 8.29±3.32, neutrophil ratio: 0.81±0.11 vs. 0.75±0.11] without statistical differences (both P > 0.05). Nine patients in critical group were cured with cure rate of 56.25%. Seven patients died with mortality of 43.75%, including 2 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and uremia respectively, who had multiple organ failure (MOF) on admission and waive the mechanical ventilation treatment; 3 patients complicated with acute renal failure but abandon hemodialysis; 1 patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma radiotherapy after operation; and 1 patient with chronic renal failure uremia period combined multiple drug-resistant bacteria infection, and died from MOF finally.@*Conclusions@#The patients with severe and critical influenza A (H1N1) show fever, cough, dyspnea, and organ dysfunction in varying degrees. Severe patients were mainly pulmonary lesions, while critical patients show MOF such as heart, lung and kidney, and the lesions progressed rapidly. The major cause of death for critical influenza A (H1N1) may be chronic underlying diseases and MOF.

Efficacy of inactivated EV71 vaccine in preventing severe hand, foot, and mouth disease of eligible children / 公共卫生与预防医学

Objective To investigate the vaccine efficacy (VE) of two doses of inactivated enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine on severe hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) in eligible children. Methods A retrospective case-control study was conducted in this project. A total of 109 patients with EV71 severe HFMD aged between 6 months to 5 years old who were admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Guangxi Maternity and Child Health Hospital from September 2016 to September 2020, and reported to the Chinese Disease Prevention and Control Information System were selected as the case group. According to 1:1 matching,109 healthy children aged between 6 months to 5 years old were selected as the control group. The vaccine efficacy of EV71 inactivated vaccine was calculated. Results The vaccination rate of the two doses of inactivated EV71 vaccine in the case group was significantly lower than that in the control group（9.17% to 54.13%，χ2=50.911, P<0.05；OR=0.086(95%CI:0.040-0.182)). The vaccine efficacy of two doses of inactivated EV71 vaccine was 91.44% (95% CI:81.8%-96%). Conclusion The inactivated EV71 vaccine has a good protective effect on hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by EV71. The vaccination of EV71 inactivated vaccine should be continuously promoted.

The role of nuclear factor kappa B and helicobacter pylori associated protein A in the pathogenesis of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura / 中国基层医药

Objective To detect and analyze nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB),Helicobacter pylori (HP),Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin associated protein A (CagA),platelet (PLT) and platelet associated IgG (PA IgG) in 224 patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpur(ITP) from three urban hospitals of Shaoxing,in order to explore the role of NF-κB and CagA in the pathogenesis of ITP,then to improve the prognosis of ITP.Methods SABC method was used to detect the NF-κB,13C breath test for the determination of the Hp infection.CagA and PA-IgG were tested by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.Automatic blood cell analyzer was used to measure PLT.According to the test results,the patients were divided into Hp+cagA+NF-κB+,Hp+cagA+NF-κB-,Hp+cagA-NF-κB+,Hp+cagA-NF-κB-,Hp-NF-κB+,Hp-NF-κB-PLT groups,and PA-IgG,PLT of the six groups were statistically analyzed.Results Of 224 cases with ITP,175 cases of HP positive,the positive rate was 78.13%.CagA+ 91 cases in 175 cases of Hp+,accounting for 52%,overall 43.63%.NF-kappa B+ 108 cases,the positive rate was 46.21%,78 cases were found in Hp+cagA+,accounting for 85.71% in cagA+.In 84 cases of Hp+cagA-,there were 21 cases NF-κB+,the positive rate was 25%.In 49 of HP-,9 cases with NF-kappa B+,accounting for 18.37%.PLT and PA-IgG were compared among the groups.The count of PLT of group Hp+,group Hp+cagA+ and group NF-κB+ was lower than group Hp-,group Hp+cagA- and group NF-κB-.However,the level of PA-IgG of group Hp+,group Hp+cagA+ and group NF-κB+ was higher than group Hp-,group Hp+cagA- and group NF-κB-,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion CagA maybe directly or through the activation of NF-kappa B take part in the immune response of ITP,cause PA-IgG increased and thrombocytopenia.

Study on the Preparation Process and Quality Control of Naringin Liposome Gel / 中国药房

OBJECTIVE:To optimize the preparation process of Naringin liposome gel,and to establish the quality control method of the gel. METHODS:The preparation method of Naringin liposome was investigated by single factor test with encapsula-tion percentage as index. The phosphatide concentration,the proportion of phosphatide to cholesterol and the proportion of phospha-tide to drug in the liposomes were optimized by orthogonal design. Using formability,spread performance and stability as compre-hensive evaluation indicator,the dosage of carbopol and triethanolamine and drug-loading amount in the gels were optimized by or-thogonal design. The quality control method of the gel was established preliminarily. RESULTS:Naringin liposomes were prepared by the method of ethanol injection;the optimal formulation of the liposomes was as follows as phosphatide 30 mg/ml,the propor-tion of phosphatide to cholesterol 3∶1,the proportion of phosphatide to drug 10∶1;that of the gels was as follows as carbopol 0.30 g,triethanolamine 1.0 g,drug-loading amount 1.0 g/20 g. Average encapsulation efficiency of validation test was 40.19% for Lipo-some(RSD=0.10%,n=3);comprehensive score was 9.8,average content of naringin was 0.58%(accounting for 96.67% of la-bel amount)for gels. The quality control method of the preparation was established,i.g. identification,content determination. CON-CLUSIONS:The optimal preparation formulation is feasible,and the preparation is controllable in quality.

Essential expression and inducible synthesis polymorphism of chitinase in Bacillus thuringiensis / 生物工程学报

Chitinases were produced by a lot of microorganisms. Chitinase gene expression in most of the chitinase producing bacteria was inducible by chitin. Low levels of chitinase were observed in the presence of glucose. To date, however, the regulation of such chitinase gene in Bacillus thuringiensis had not been well studied. In this paper, all 77 Bacillus thuringiensis strains were grown in the medium with or without chitin. We measured quantitatively the chitinase activity of the cultures. Moreover, we investigated the suppressive effect of glucose on chitinase of 4 strains. Also we studied the relationship between chitin induction and glucose suppression on chitinase. This investigation demonstrated that all tested B. thuringiensis strains could produce chitinase without chitin. After induction, the chitinolytic activity of 31 tested strains had no obvious response to the inducer, whereas 44 stains increased in different degree. Among these strains, most of them did not markedly increase the levels of chitinase, and many stains simultaneously displayed the expression mode of inducible and constitutive. The glucose inhibited the inductive effect of chitin, but it could not inhibit the basal expression of chitinase. Two strains No. 38 and No. 75 belonged to different expression types. But we just found several different bases in the regulatory region of chitinase genes chiA and chiB from them.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS AND CRY GENE DIVERSITY IN CHINA / 微生物学通报

cryⅢ gene,they were found in 75 6%,67 9%,58 4% and14 5% of the strains respectively,no cryⅠ Ⅴ gene was found,10cry gene combination types were concluded.The Bt isolates which contained cryⅠ genes were further characterized by additional PCR detection with specific primers of the cryⅠAc,cryⅠC and cryⅠE genes.20 Bt isolates which contained cryⅠAc,cryⅠC,cryⅡ and cryⅤ genes were found,among them the strain Bt\|15A3 is high toxic to Heliothis armigera,Spodoptera exigua and Plutella xylostella,and has potential developing and applying value.

The changes and significance of serum cytokine in rats with acute necrotizing pancreatitis / 中国医师杂志

Objective To explore the changes and significance of serum tumor necrosis factor-?(TNF-?),interleukin-1?(IL-1?),IL-6 and IL-10 in rats with acute necrotizing pancreatitis(ANP).Methods Sixty-four Wistar rats were randomly divided into 2 groups: sham operation group(SO group n=32) and ANP group(n=32).The ANP model was established by using retrograde injection of Sodium Taurocholate into cholangiopancreatic duct.The changes of serum endotoxin(ET),TNF-?,IL-1?,IL-6 and IL-10 in different groups and different time points were observed.Results The levels of serum ET,TNF-?,IL-1?,IL-6 and IL-10(except IL10 of ANP group in 16h) in rats of ANP group were significantly higher than those of SO group(P

STUDIES ON FERMENTATIVE CONDITIONS OF BACILLUS SPHAERICUS TS-1 / 微生物学通报

The medium for fermentation has been selected by means of orthogonal designs. The number of cell has reached 10~(11)/ml, and spore forming rate is 70—80%. LC_(50) of mosquito larvicied is lower than 0.125 ppm. Three targets are obviously better than those of previous report. The stable results are proved by studying of fermentation in shaking flask and further in 50L~3-bench fermenter. The production cost of per ton is decreased by 33%.