Background And Objective: Pulmonary Daoyin (PD) (evolved from ancient Chinese daoyin skills), is a rehabilitation technology that combines specially designed movements of the arms and body and controlled breathing exercises, to improve the physiological and psychological status of patients with chronic respiratory disease. Pulmonary rehabilitation is effective for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the efficacy of PD is unknown. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a PD program in enhancing activity tolerance, patient-reported outcomes and satisfaction with the effectiveness on patients with COPD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To reveal the effects on expression of airway mucus-associated proteins in rats with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and a cold-dryness symptom pattern induced by elastase and smoking.
Methods: The COPD model was established with an elastase dose into the trachea combined with exposure to smoking; the COPD model cold-dryness symptom pattern was further developed by exposure to a cold, dry environment. After 90 days, pathologic lung sections, inflammatory cytokine levels (measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay), mRNA and protein expression of mucus-associated proteins and aquaporins (measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction and western blots) were examined.
Objective: To investigate the distribution of abnormal hilit syndromes in traditional Uighur medicine (TUM) among human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) patients, and to find out the clinical characteristics of abnormal savda syndrome type HIV/AIDS patients.
Methods: Between June and July in 2012, 307 eligible HIV/AIDS patients from in-patient department and out-patient clinics of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region the Sixth People's Hospital in Urumqi were investigated. TUM syndrome differentiation was performed by a senior TUM physician.
Objective: To review the herbal drugs most often used throughout history for the treatment of osteoporosis; to study their property, flavor and meridian attribution; and to explore their compatibility.
Methods: The "Chinese Medical Classics" (upgrade) CD-ROM was used to retrieve historical prescriptions for the treatment of osteoporosis, and these were collected and sorted. Property, flavor and meridian attribution were determined, and the rules of herbal administration were determined by cluster analysis.
Objective: To examine changes in body weight and the lung inflammation factors interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), interleukin-8 (IL-8), IL-10 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in a rat model of cold-dryness syndrome in Northwest (Xinjiang) China to provide a reference for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with local peculiarities.
Methods: The rat COPD model was established by intratracheal instillation of porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE) in combination with cigarette smoking (CS). The rat model of cold-dryness syndrome of COPD in the northwest of China was set up by intratracheal instillation of PPE in combination with CS and environmental cold-dryness stress.
Objective: To investigate plasma samples from neoplasm patients with phlegm-stasis or abnormal Savda syndrome, with NMR spectroscopy, and to analyze their metabolic varieties, characteristics and reciprocity.
Methods: 1H-NMR spectra were analyzed using the orthogonal projection to latent structure with discriminative analysis (OPLS-DA) method with unit variance scaling. The discriminative significance of metabolites was determined by the Pearson's product - moment correlation coefficient.
Xi Bao Yu Fen Zi Mian Yi Xue Za Zhi
August 2011
Aim: To study the Uygur medicine Hyssopus officinalis L on T-bet, GATA-3, STAT-3 mRNA levels of asthma rats in order to explore the mechanism of its treatment of asthma.
Methods: Rats were randomly divided into normal control group, asthma model group and dexamethasone group and water extract of Hyssopus officinalis L high and low dose group. The rats were sensitized with OVA, Al(OH)(3); and DPT vaccine and then challenged with inhalation of aerosolized OVA solution for Preparation of asthma model and the level of T-bet, GATA-3, STAT-3 mRNA were detected with RT-PCR.
Peritoneal dialysis has undergone considerable development from a technological point of view, and osmotic agent has played the essential role in peritoneal dialysis fluid. Because the most commonly used osmotic agent is glucose and icodextrin, there are some disadvantages related to the use of glucose-based solutions and icodextrin. So it is urgent to develop a new peritoneal dialysis osmotic agent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To observe the effect of Uighur medicine gu-jing-mai-si-ha tablet (GJMSHT) for treatment of premature ejaculation (PE) and to explore part of its mechanism.
Methods: The condition of patients was scored by related questionnaire, and the intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT) was observed before and after GJMSHT treatment, with the blood levels of nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alpha) detected in PE patients as well. The results were compared with those in the control group.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi
February 2003
Objective: To investigate gene polymorphisms in Uighur patients with Abnormal Savda.
Methods: Polymorphisms of genomic fingerprints generated by arbitrarily primed PCR(AP-PCR) can be used for distinguishing between strains of almost any organism. The authors of this article applied the technique to the polymorphism analysis on the DNA of Uighur patients suffering from four kinds of Abnormal Savda (n=116), and on the DNA of a control group(n=50).