Comprehensive treatment of deep frostbite of multiple fingers after trauma: A case report.

Background: Frostbite is becoming increasingly common in urban environments, and severe cases can lead to tissue loss. The treatment goal is to preserve tissue and function; the sooner appropriate treatment is administered, the more tissue can be saved. However, not every patient with deep frostbite seeks medical care promptly.

["Water-pathogen" theory-based Juanyin Tongluo Recipe for varicocele complicated with oligozoospermia: A clinical observation].

Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of the "water-pathogen" theory-based Juanyin Tongluo Recipe (JTR) in the treatment of varicocele (VC) complicated with oligozoospermia and its effects on the semen parameters, sperm morphology, sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI) and testis volume of the patient.

Methods: Ninety-two VC patients complicated with oligozoospermia were randomly assigned to receive JTR (n = 47) and Maizhiling Tablets (the control group, n = 45), respectively, both for three months, followed by comparisons of the clinical effects, total sperm count, sperm motility, percentages of progressively motile sperm (PMS) and morphologically normal sperm (MNS), sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI) and testis volume of the patients before and after medication, and the pregnancy rate after treatment between the two groups.

Results: The total rate of effectiveness was significantly higher in the JTR than in the control group (87.

[Baihe Yuzi Prescription improves asthenospermia by up-regulating the expression of CFTR in the sperm].

Objective: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of Baihe Yuzi Prescription (BYP) in the treatment of clinical syndrome-free asthenospermia and its effects on semen parameters, sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI) and the expression of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in the sperm.

Methods: We randomly divided 112 patients with clinical syndrome-free asthenospermia into a control group (n = 55) and an experimental group (n = 57), the former treated orally with L-carnitine liquid combined with vitamin E capsules and the latter with BYP in addition, both for 3 months. After treatment, we obtained the total sperm count, sperm motility, percentages of progressively motile sperm (PMS) and morphologically normal sperm (MNS), sperm DFI and expression of CFTR in the sperm, and compared the above parameters between the two groups of patients before and after medication.

MMP3 -1171 5A/6A Promoter Genotype Influences Serum MMP3 Levels and Is Associated with Deep Venous Thrombosis.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the roles of MMP3 (matrix metalloproteinase-3) gene polymorphism and protein expression in deep venous thrombosis (DVT) among Chinese Han population.

Methods: A total of 280 subjects were included in this study and categorized as case group (144 DVT patients) and control group (136 healthy individuals). Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism was used to detect MMP3 promoter -1171 5A>6A genotype and allele frequencies.

Percutaneous intrarenal marsupialization of symptomatic peripelvic renal cysts: a single-centre experience in China.

Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE.The aim of this study was to report the authors' experience with percutaneous intrarenal marsupialization of symptomatic peripelvic renal cysts.

Material And Methods: Thirty-one patients (16 male and 15 female, with a mean age of 49 years) with a peripelvic renal cyst associated with chronic flank or lumbar pain or urinary infection were selected for percutaneous intrarenal marsupialization with a 2 μm laser in the authors' centre from January 2005 to December 2010.

[Percutaneous nephroscopic 2 µm laser incision and drainage treatment of peripelvic renal cysts].

Objective: To explore the surgical approaches, efficacy and safety of percutaneous nephroscopic 2 µm laser incision and drainage in the treatment of peripelvic renal cysts.

Methods: The peripelvic renal cysts were punctured percutaneously. A 1.

[Lidamycin inhibits angiogenesis of zebrafish embryo via down-regulation of VEGF].

Lidamycin (LDM) is a potent antitumor antibiotic. Previous studies have shown that LDM could inhibit proliferation and migration in endothelial cells. In the present report, the effect of LDM on angiogenesis of zebrafish embryo was studied.

Transurethral 2-microm laser in the treatment of urethral stricture.

Objectives: To evaluate the curative efficacy of transurethral 2-mum thulium laser urethrotomy in the treatment of urethral stricture.

Methods: Two hundred and thirty-eight patients suffering from urethral stricture, all male, aged 47.3 (36-58), underwent transurethral 2-mum thulium laser urethrotomy.

[Efficacy of transurethral 2 microm laser urethrotomy in the treatment of urethral stricture and atresia].

Objective: To evaluate the curative efficacy of transurethral 2 microm thulium laser urethrotomy in the treatment of urethral stricture and atresia.

Methods: 192 patients suffering from urethral stricture (n = 179) or atresia (n = 13), all male, aged 45.4 (38-56), underwent transurethral 2 microm thulium laser urethrotomy.

NMDA-evoked consumption and recovery of mitochondrially targeted aequorin suggests increased Ca2+ uptake by a subset of mitochondria in hippocampal neurons.

Activation of NMDA receptors produces large increases in cytosolic Ca(2+) that are taken up into mitochondria. We used recombinant aequorin targeted to mitochondria to report changes in matrix Ca(2+) in rat hippocampal neurons in culture. Upon binding Ca(2+), aequorin emits a photon in a one-shot reaction that consumes the indicator.

Altered distribution of mitochondria impairs calcium homeostasis in rat hippocampal neurons in culture.

The specificity of Ca2+ signals is conferred in part by limiting changes in cytosolic Ca2+ to subcellular domains. Mitochondria play a major role in regulating Ca2+ in neurons and may participate in its spatial localization. We examined the effects of changes in the distribution of mitochondria on NMDA-induced Ca2+ increases.

[Synthesis of azobenzol compound and analytical application in a new catalytic spectrophotometry system].

Analysis of the indicator synthesis was studied by catalytic spectrophotometry, and the reducing decolorization that the copper(II) catalyzed the ration between ascorbic acid and 3-methyl-4-amino-4'-nitro azobenzol was discussed. Reaction condition was optimized and a highly selective determination of trace copper(II) was established. The detection limit was 0.

Expression of a variant form of the glutamate transporter GLT1 in neuronal cultures and in neurons and astrocytes in the rat brain.

To identify glutamate transporters expressed in forebrain neurons, we prepared a cDNA library from rat forebrain neuronal cultures, previously shown to transport glutamate with high affinity and capacity. Using this library, we cloned two forms, varying in the C terminus, of the glutamate transporter GLT1. This transporter was previously found to be localized exclusively in astrocytes in the normal mature brain.

NMDA-induced calcium loads recycle across the mitochondrial inner membrane of hippocampal neurons in culture.

Mitochondria sequester N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced Ca(2+) loads and regulate the shape of intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) responses in neurons. When isolated mitochondria are exposed to high [Ca(2+)](,) Ca(2+) enters the matrix via the uniporter and returns to the cytosol by Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange. Released Ca(2+) may re-enter the mitochondrion recycling across the inner membrane dissipating respiratory energy.