To assess the diagnostic and therapeutic status of non-respiratory physicians managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for patients with lung cancer at general hospitals to promote a standardized regimen. Through a retrospective survey from January 2009 to December 2010 at our hospital, the data of clinical features, pulmonary function test ...

Carlo Moreschi (1876-1921) was founding co-editor of the journal "Il Lavoro" (now known as "La Medicina del Lavoro"), together with Luigi Devoto in 1901. Despite this fact, many of his pioneering contributions to 20th century scientific debate are not well known outside Italy. Objectives: The aim of this paper therefore ...

To determine the interference of antithyroglobulin (TgAb) on the measurement of serum thyroglobulin (Tg) in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC). The Tg positive serum and TgAb positive serum were taken from the patients with total thyroidectomy and thyroid remnant ablation by radioiodine. The Tg positive serum contained high level ...

To explore the distribution characteristics of apolipoprotein A5 (ApoA5) gene c.553G > T polymorphism and the relationship of serum lipid in Chinese Han and Uighur populations in Xinjiang, China. The genotypes of ApoA5 gene c.553G > T polymorphism were detected in 406 Uighur and 527 Han people by polymerase chain ...

Physiological mechanisms of neuronal adaptation of the human corticospinal pathways in response to long-term intense motor activity have been studied insufficiently. In this work, we investigated adaptational changes in corticospinal mechanisms of muscular contraction control in athletes. We measured parameters of motor evoked potentials of lower limb skeletal muscles under ...

To analyze the histopathology of, surgery for, and prognosis (survival rate, local recurrence rate, metastases rate, function) of epithelioid angiosarcoma (EA). Seven patients diagnosed as EA were received treatment in our department from May 2001 to May 2011. According Enneking staging, 3 patients were classified as IIA, 3 for IIB, ...

Maintaining adequate levels of nutrition is particularly important over the winter months when older people can be particularly vulnerable. This article discusses ways of encouraging healthy eating among elderly people and suggests tips for a balanced and nutritious diet.

The aim of the present study was to establish whether there is dependence of vascular reactivity to mental stress on the levels of neuroticism and anxiety in left- and right-handers. Thirty-two left-handed and 32 righthanded volunteers (16 males and 16 females in each group) between 18 and 30 years of ...

To observe the effects of a domestically made jet ventilator in dogs during interventional procedures by rigid bronchoscopy under general anesthesia. Ten healthy mongrel dogs were inserted with a rigid bronchoscope under general anesthesia, and the dogs underwent 3 different ventilation conditions randomly: spontaneous breathing alone (group A), and normal ...

It is marked in the article that the average value of heart chronotropic reaction of athletes to vestibular irritation from different positions of a head and duration of sensory reactions are inversely related to exercise saturation of every kind of sport by angular accelerations. Severity of the systolic blood pressure ...

To determine the independent prognostic factors of primary synovial sarcoma. The clinical data of 52 patients followed up from 66 patients with synovial sarcoma treated between September 1997 and September 2008 was analyzed retrospectively. There were 28 male and 24 female patients aged from 11 to 71 years old. Three ...

Genotypic associations were studied for the frequency of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Cytogenetic analysis (1000 metaphase plate per individual) and genotyping at 19 sites of genes involved in detoxification and DNA repair were performed in a sample of 83 Chernobyl liquidators and a matched control sample of ...

To investigate the etiology and clinical characteristics of pregnancy-emerged thrombocytopenia. A retrospective analysis was conducted on clinical data of 159 pregnancies with thrombocytopenia, who were admitted to Peking University People's Hospital from January 2000 to January 2010. All the patients recruited in this study had no history of blood or ...

To evaluate the chemopreventive effects of boswellic acid and curcumin on 7,12-dimethyl benzanthracene(DMBA)-induced oral carcinogenesis in the hamster cheek pouch model. Male Syrian golden hamsters (6 - 8 weeks old, 80 - 130 g in weight) were randomly divided into seven groups, with group A serving as the untreated negative ...

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in pregnant patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Twenty-four pregnant patients with SLE treated with HCQ during pregnancy from May, 2006 to February, 2011 were studied retrospectively. All babies were followed up during early infancy for growth development. Of them, 22 ...

A relatively high early mortality rate (<30 days post-injury) for cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) has been observed. To investigate this early mortality rate observed after cervical SCI and analyze the associated influential factors. Medical records for 1163 patients with cervical SCI were reviewed, and the number of patients with ...

We have conducted a comparative study of allele frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs1799793 and rs13181 of the ERCC2 gene as well as rs1799782 and rs25487 of the XRCC1 gene in population samples from European regions of Russia as well as in populations of Izhemsk and Priluzsk Komi and ...

To determine the effects of tensile strain on the expression of core binding factor alpha1 (Runx2/Cbfalpha1) in osteoblasts cultivated in Pg-LPS stimulated RAW264.7 culture supernatant. Osteoblasts MC3T3-E1 were cultivated in LPS stimulated monocyte culture supernatant for 24 h. Then, a four-point bending device was used to perform a single period ...

To investigate the changes in myocardial deformation in donor and recipient hearts in response to selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation (SFLP) for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Totally 25 twin pairs before 24-hour and 1 week after SFLP had fetal echocardiography and digital dynamic two-dimensional four chamber views which were interrogated off-line ...

To study the effect of two kinds of silane coupling agent on bond strength of resin-ceramic adhesive. Four hundred and thirty-two ceramic samples were divided into 9 groups (48 per group), and in each group the ceramic surface was treated with r-methacryloxypro-pyletrimethoxysilane (MPTS) (50 g/L) in 99% ethanol (Primer A) ...

To investigate the characteristics of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with chronic cough by the results of combined multichannel intraluminal impedance and high-resolution manometry (MII-HRM) procedure and 24-hour multichannel intraluminal impedance combined pH (MII-pH) monitoring. From March 2010 to November 2010, consecutive patients of GERD with chronic cough (more than 8 ...

To better understand the clinical and imaging characteristics of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC). A case diagnosed with BAC with a natural history for 10 years was reported and the related literature was reviewed. We searched literatures in PubMed with "bronchioloalveolar carcinoma", "ground glass opacity", "high resolution computed tomography" as the search ...

To investigate the outcome of standard treatment in stage III soft tissue sarcomas and the prognostic factors in these patients. Clinical, pathological, and therapeutic information of 67 patients with stage III soft tissue sarcomas were collected from Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital from January 2003 to January 2006. All these ...

To study the protective effects of Tianji soft capsule (TJSC) on blood lipids, internal antioxidant system and vascular endothelial system in hyperlipidemia rats. Seventy two healthy male rats were divided into six groups. The rats in control group were administered with ordinary diet. The rats in model group were fed ...

To investigate the effects of the Gln27Glu polymorphism of beta2-adrenergic receptor (beta2AR) on serum lipid and apolipoprotein ratios and its interaction with high-carbohydrate/low-fat (HC/LF) diet on the ratios in healthy youth. After on a washout diet for seven days, fifty six healthy young subjects were given the HC/LF diet for ...

The nucleotide sequences of a fragment of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene were determined in 12 chum salmon populations from the Russian Far East. The level of genetic diversity in the chum salmon populations from the Iturup Island, northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, and Anadyr' River was ...

To investigate the anti-tumor activity of two wild Amanita strains, and to determine the inhibition ratio of their effective chemical components on tumor cells in vitro. Two wild Amanita strains collected in Sichuan province were identified through morphology and molecular methods. The chemical components from the fruit body of the ...

To investigate clinicopathological characteristics of recurrent endometriosis and outcomes of secondary surgery. From Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2008, 69 cases with recurrent endometriosis operated by the same senior gynecologist in Peking Union Medical College Hospital were studied retrospectively in order to summarize clinicopathological characteristics and clinical outcomes. In prior surgery, ...

To discuss the risk and strategy of dental implantation in patients with periodontal disease and type 2 diabetes. Retrospective analysis was performed of dental implantation results in 248 patients with periodontal disease and type 2 diabetes from 2000 to 2008. The survival rate was evaluated and the data statistically analyzed. ...

Analysis of mtDNA variation in one of the amphidromic Far Eastern redfins, Tribolodon hakonensis, revealed the presence of three considerably genetically different mtDNA phylogroups in the individuals from the Russian part of the range. These data suggest the presence of the two periods of divergent evolution in the history of ...

To evaluate the relationship between netrin-1 protein, clinicopathologic features and prognosis in gastric cancer patients. Tissue micro-array and immunohistochemistry were used to detect expression of netrin-1 protein and Ki67. And clinicopathological relevance of netrin-1 protein and Ki67 in gastric cancer were analyzed. Survival rates was evaluated by Kaplan-Meier survival curves. ...

To study the regulation of microRNA 199a (miR-199a) on adhesion, migration and invasion ability of human eutopic endometrial stromal cells (ESC) from patients with endometriosis. ESC were transfected with miR-199a mimics or negative control (NC) RNA by lipofectamine 2000. The adhesion, migration and invasion ability of ESC were detected by ...

To analyze smile features in maximum lip-dynamic in Chinese. Sixty-two Han-Chinese, travelling in Germany, with a mean age of 28.5 years were enrolled and photographed. Standardized digital photos were made to measure the height of displayed maxillary gingiva, papilla and tooth during an enjoyment smile. Statistical analysis was performed using ...

This article provides patients, carers and professional staff in the community with a simple guide to safe practice when administering medication through an enteral feeding tube. For the purpose of this article, enteral feeding tube access relates to nasogastric tubes, gastrostomies, or jejunal feeding tubes.

In work the features of the biopotentials spatial organization are surveyed at successful and unsuccessful (abandoning or bad quality of a product) implementation of creative imagination in conditions of information over saturation. Two groups of the examinees have taken part in experiments: "professionals" (23 able-bodied examinees--students of faculty of an ...

To explore the actions of keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) in leukemic mice allogeneic umbilical cord blood cell transplantation (UCBT) and elucidate its mechanism. Peripheral blood drawn from the litters of C57BL/6 females was used as umbilical cord blood (UCB) graft. BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 7 groups (n = ...

To investigate the stereological changes of placental lobular villi vessels in patients with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). Stereological analysis on vessels volume and cross-areas of placental samples taken from 10 normal and 10 ICP patients at 37-40 week pregnancy were performed. Compared with normal pregnancy, the ICP patients had ...

To investigate the expression and clinical significance of HOXA10 gene in the eutopic and ectopic endometrium of endometriosis. Mehtods Between Jan.2009 to Aug.2010, 30 patients with endometriosis undergoing laparoscopic surgery in Maternal and Children's Hospital of Foshan. Eutopic and ectopic endometrium were obtained. In the mean time, 30 patients with ...

To evaluate the preliminary clinical results of prosthetic gingival reconstruction in vertical bone defect patients. The study included 31 partial or edentulous patients (male 22, female 9) with 152 implants supporting fixed prostheses from February 2002 to January 2011 in Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology. The implant-supported fixed ...

Yu. P. Altukhov suggested that heterozygosity is an indicator of the state of the gene pool. The idea and a linked concept of genetic ecological monitoring were applied to a new dataset on mtDNA variation in East European ethnic groups. Haplotype diversity (an analog of the average heterozygosity) was shown ...

To estimate the minimal dosages of fentanyl and sufentanil in combination with 0.0625% W/V bupivacaine for epidural analgesia in labor. Forty-six pregnant women with full term gestation who requested epidural analgesia in labor were enrolled in this up-down sequential allocation study. Ten mL of fentanyl or sufentanil in combination of ...

To investigate the expression of steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1) in eutopic endometrium, ovarian endometriosis (EM) and adenomyosis. From Jan. 2008 to Dec. 2010, 30 patients with both ovarian endometriotic cysts and adenomyosis underwent hysterectomy, cystectomy or adenxectomy in Peking University First Hospital. The combination of ovarian EM and denomyosis were ...

To investigate the effect of synthesized advanced glycation end products (AGE) on apoptosis of human gingival fibroblasts (HGF) and the possible role of caspase-dependent pathway in the process of AGE-induced apoptosis. HGF were incubated with AGE-human serum albumin (AGE-HSA). The activity of caspase-8, caspase-9 and caspase-3 were detected by microplate ...

To analyze the clinical characteristics of Behcet's disease with intracardiac thrombus. The data of 8 patients diagnosed as Behcet's disease with intracardiac thrombus in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from January, 1990 to January, 2011 were studied retrospectively. Behcet's disease with intracardiac thrombus was found in 8 patients (5 men ...

Malnutrition represents a significant health risk to the UK population, in particular to vulnerable patients in the community, and costs the UK economy up to £13 billion pounds per year. With the significance of the social and economic burden of malnutrition very much in mind, the Patients Association conducted a ...

The influence of different types of mental activity on the cardiovascular system was analyzed by following indexes: the heart rate (HR), the variation magnitude (VM), the amplitude of systolic wave (SWA) and the pulse wave transit time (PWTT). A registration of these indexes was conducted when the subjects solved verbal-logical ...

The workplace plays a central role in causing stress and different kinds of syndromes and diseases. More generally, organizational procedures and practices could have an impact on nurses' quality of life. Although several studies have investigated this link, none of them considered nurses working in prehospital emergency care. To investigate ...

To explore the effects of tumor-suppressing gene wild type PTEN on the cell proliferation, apoptosis and the possible regulations of apoptosis-related molecules Survivin, Xiap and Smac gene in human chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and cell line K562 cells. (1) The recombinant adenovirus containing green fluorescent protein (GFP) and PTEN (Ad-PTEN-GFP) ...

The supplementary historical discipline genealogy is also a supplementary genetic discipline. In its formation, genetics borrowed from genealogy some methods of pedigree analysis. In the 21th century, it started receiving contribution from computer-aided genealogy and genetic (molecular) genealogy. The former provides novel tools for genetics, while the latter, which employing ...

Manual preference (handedness) of the elementary school children had being compared to the parameters of early development and existence of left-handed relatives. Elevated percent of left handers was found both among children born after some complications during pregnancy or delivery and among children having left handed relatives. Those two factors ...