Effects of reflective learning based on visual mind mapping in the fundamentals of nursing course: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Previous studies have shown that reflective learning and mind mapping have many advantages in nursing education, but the relevant researches on the joint application of the two strategies are very limited.

Objectives: To confirm the efficacy of reflective learning based on visual mind mapping for educational purposes to support the critical thinking, academic self-efficacy, and professional self-concept of nursing students.

Design: A quasi-experimental design with pretest and posttest model.

Association between CT imaging features and KIT mutations in small intestinal gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Small intestinal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have different clinical outcomes when KIT mutations are in exons 11 or 9, which are also the most common sites of neoplastic KIT mutations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the CT imaging features in those two groups. A total of 35 patients were enrolled, and both quantitative and qualitative CT imaging features were compared between patient groups with KIT exon 9 mutations (KIT-9) and exon 11 mutations (KIT-11).

[Interleukin-10-1082 promoter polymorphism and the risk of gastric cancer].

Objective: To investigate the association between Interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter polymorphism and the gastric cancer risk in Chinese Han patients.

Methods: DNA was extracted from blood samples of gastric cancer patients (n = 75) and controls (n = 75). IL-10 -1082 promoter polymorphism in both patient and control group (three genotypes distribution: AA, AG and GG) was identified by PCR-RFLP and its relationship with gastric cancer risk, clinic and pathologic features was also analyzed.

[Pathogenesis and clinical significance of interleukin-8 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in cervicitis].

Objective: To investigate the relationship between local immune status of vagina and the occurrence of disease in patients with cervicitis.

Methods: ELISA were used to detect the level of interleukin (IL)-8 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)alpha in vaginal douche of patients with cervicitis due to ureaplasma urealyticum, mycoplasma hominis, chlamydia trachomatis, neisseria gonorrhoeae and cervical erosion.

Results: Compared with the control group, the level of IL-8 in vaginal douche of patients with mycoplasma hominis cervicitis, chlamydia trachomatis cervicitis and neisseria gonorrhoeae cervicitis was significantly higher and there was significant difference ng/L: 371 +/- 34, 369 +/- 31, 339 +/- 36, vs 341 +/- 32, 338 +/- 33, 316 +/- 24, (all P < 0.