Safety and efficacy of remote ischemic postconditioning after thrombolysis in patients with stroke.

Objective: To determine the effect of remote ischemic postconditioning (RIPC) on patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) undergoing IV thrombolysis (IVT).

Methods: A single-center randomized controlled trial was performed with patients with AIS receiving IVT. Patients in the RIPC group were administered RIPC treatment (after IVT) during hospitalization.

Fast Von Mises strain imaging on ultrasound carotid vessel wall by flow driven diffusion method.

The elasticity of the vessel wall is important for the clinical identification of rupture-risks. The Von Mises strain can be a potential index for the indication of carotid vessel pathologies. In this paper, a fast clinically applicable real-time algorithm from time-sequence of B-mode carotid images is developed.

The kinematic recovery process of rhesus monkeys after spinal cord injury.

After incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), neural circuits may be plastically reconstructed to some degree, resulting in extensive functional locomotor recovery. The present study aimed to observe the post-SCI locomotor recovery of rhesus monkey hindlimbs and compare the recovery degrees of different hindlimb parts, thus revealing the recovery process of locomotor function. Four rhesus monkeys were chosen for thoracic hemisection injury.

[Electrophysiological characteristics of hippocampal postnatal early development mediated by AMPA receptors in rats].

The present study was aimed to investigate the electrophysiological characteristics of hippocampal postnatal early development mediated by α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors in rats. Forty-eight Wistar rats were divided into postnatal 0.5-, 1-, 2- and 3-month groups (n = 12).

Fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation changes in monkeys with spinal cord injury: a resting-state fMRI study.

Purpose: Although functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed that spinal cord injury (SCI) causes anomalous changes in task-induced brain activation, its effect during the resting state remains unclear. The aim of this study is to explore the changes of the brain resting-state function in non-human primates with unilateral SCI.

Materials And Methods: Eleven adult female rhesus monkeys were subjected to resting-state fMRI: five with unilateral thoracic SCI and six healthy monkeys, to obtain the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) of the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast signal to determine the influence of SCI on the cerebral resting-state function.

HERG-F463L potassium channels linked to long QT syndrome reduce I(Kr) current by a trafficking-deficient mechanism.

1. Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a genetically heterogeneous disease. The aim of the present study was to identify the gene mutation in a Chinese family with LQTS and investigate the functional changes associated with the mutation.

[Anti-tumor mechanisms of Sp2/0 tumor vaccine transfected with mIL-21 gene in mice].

Aim: To explore the anti-tumor mechanism of Sp2/0-mIL-21 tumor vaccine in mice.

Methods: The molecules of MHC-I and CD80 on the surface of Sp2/0-mIL-21 tumor vaccine were detected by flow cytometry (FCM) respectively. A flow cytometric CFSE-7-AAD cytotoxicity assay was used to detect the cytotoxic activities of NK cells and CTLs.

[Functional expression of congenital long QT syndrome related HERG mutation A561V in vitro].

Objective: To investigate the functional expression of HERG mutation A561V detected in a Chinese congenital long QT syndrome family.

Methods: The mutation gene A561V was cloned into eukaryotic expressive vector pcDNA3 by quick site-directed mutagenesis PCR and restriction enzymes. The wild-type HERG, heterozygous type HERG and HERG mutation A561V were respectively cotransfected with pRK5-GFP into HEK293 cells by Suprefact transfection regent.

[Committed differentiation of transplanted bone derived mesenchymal stem cells and their potential to amend damaged liver functions: in vivo experiment with mice].

Objective: To observe whether bone mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the potential to transdifferentiate into functional hepatocyte-like cells in the special "niche" as well as the therapeutic feasibility to repair damaged liver in mice.

Methods: 20 nude mice were randomly divided into four groups (n = 5 in each group): Group A: 1.0 ml/kg of carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) (dissolved in olive oil by ratio of 1:1) was injected into the peritoneum of mice twice a week for 5 weeks.

[Single nucleotide polymorphisms of genes associated with high density lipoprotein metabolism in Chinese population].

Objective: To study the single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes associated with the high density lipoprotein (HDL) metabolism in Chinese population.

Methods: Two hundred and nine normal Han ethnic subjects, aged 59+/-10 years, were recruited from 5 medical centers in western part of China. DNA was extracted by proteinase K digestion, phenol and chloroform extraction as well as isopropanol precipitation.