A retrospective case-control study of facial emotion recognition in male veterans with chronic schizophrenia and its correlation with interpersonal communication.

Objective: To understand the facial emotion recognition of male veterans with chronic schizophrenia and the relationship between facial emotion recognition and interpersonal communication to provide a reference for designing social skills training programmes.

Method: Fifty-six eligible male patients with chronic schizophrenia who were admitted to our hospital from October 2020 to April 2021 were selected, and 24 healthy people were selected as controls. Facial emotion recognition, social communication skills and self-perceived interpersonal disturbance were assessed using a facial emotion recognition stimulus manual, the Social Skills Checklist (SSC) and the Interpersonal Relationship Integrative Diagnostic Scale (IRIDS).

[Pollution Characteristics and Potential Source Contributions of Gaseous Elemental Mercury (GEM) During Summer and Autumn in Ningbo City].

Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) is commonly known as a hazardous heavy metal in the atmosphere and is harmful to living organisms. GEM is chemically stable and has a long residence time in the atmosphere; hence, it can be transported over long distances with air masses and is regarded as a global pollutant. We study the transportation and transformation mechanisms of GEM and its potential anthropogenic and natural contribution sources.

Intravenously Infusing the Secretome of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ameliorates Neuroinflammation and Neurological Functioning After Traumatic Brain Injury.

The secretome of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) offers a series of immunoregulatory properties and is regarded as an effective method of mitigating secondary neuroinflammation induced by traumatic brain injury (TBI). The secretome of adipose-derived MSCs (ASC-ST) was collected under hypoxia conditions. Proteomics data were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and concentrations of major components were tested.

Diffusion tensor imaging predicting neurological repair of spinal cord injury with transplanting collagen/chitosan scaffold binding bFGF.

Prognosis and treatment evaluation of spinal cord injury (SCI) are still in the long-term research stage. Prognostic factors for SCI treatment need effective biomarker to assess therapeutic effect. Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) may become a potential indicators for assessing SCI repair.

Injury-preconditioning secretome of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells amplified the neurogenesis and cognitive recovery after severe traumatic brain injury in rats.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a dominant cause of death and permanent disability worldwide. Although TBI could significantly increase the proliferation of adult neural stem cells in the hippocampus, the survival and maturation of newborn cells is markedly low. Increasing evidence suggests that the secretome derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) would be an ideal alternative to MSC transplantation.

A Pilot Study of Quantitative Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification-guided Target Therapies for Hospital-acquired Pneumonia.

Background: It is important to achieve the definitive pathogen identification in hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), but the traditional culture results always delay the target antibiotic therapy. We assessed the method called quantitative loop-mediated isothermal amplification (qLAMP) as a new implement for steering of the antibiotic decision-making in HAP.

Methods: Totally, 76 respiratory tract aspiration samples were prospectively collected from 60 HAP patients.

Low-dose taurine upregulates taurine transporter expression in acute myocardial ischemia.

Taurine exerts a protective effect on cardiomyocytes. The aim of this study was to determine whether the protective effect of taurine is associated with the upregulation of taurine transporter (TAUT) expression in acute myocardial ischemia (AMI). To this end, we investigated TAUT expression in cultured cardiomyocytes exposed to hypoxia as well as in rats with AMI treated with or not with taurine.

[Efficacy of autologous bone marrow-derived cells transfer for patients with chronic ischemic heart disease: a meta-analysis].

Objective: We aimed to perform a meta-analysis of clinical trials on the efficacy of autologous bone marrow-derived cells (BMCs) transfer for patients with chronic ischemic heart disease.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane database through September 2009. Eligible studies were randomized controlled trials of autologous BMCs infusion in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease.

Effects of intensive glucose control on incidence of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis.

Background: The effects of intensive glucose control over conventional glucose control on cardiovascular outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes remain uncertain.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane database to identify randomized controlled trials that compared the effects of intensive glucose control and conventional glucose control, on cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Results: Seven trials involving 34,144 participants with type 2 diabetes were included.

Inhibiting effects of total saponins of panax ginseng on immune maturation of dendritic cells induced by oxidized-low density lipoprotein.

Total saponins of panax ginseng (TSPG) are the major active components in panax ginseng. Dendritic cells (DCs) play an active role in the immunological processes related to atherosclerosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect and possible mechanisms of TSPG on the maturation and immune function of DCs.

[Systematic review on safety of intracoronary autologous bone marrow stem cells transfer in patients with acute myocardial infarction].

Objective: To estimate the safety of intracoronary autologous bone marrow stem cells (BMSC) transfer in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Methods: A systematic literature search of PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane EBM, BIOSIS, EMBASE and Chinese Journal Full-text Database between January 1990 and May 2007, was performed. Inclusion criteria required that patients received intracoronary BMSC transfer after coronary reperfusion therapy for primary acute myocardial infarction; study design involved patient randomization and matching placebo group as well as detailed safety data with more than 3 months follow-up results.

Intracoronary autologous bone marrow stem cells transfer for patients with acute myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Background: Conflicting results existed now on the clinical utility of intracoronary bone marrow stem cells (BMSC) transfer for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This study sought to analyze the efficacy and safety of autologous BMSC transfer in patients with AMI by performing a meta-analysis based on published randomised controlled trials.

Methods: A systematic literature search of PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, EMBASE, and Cochrane EBM databases during the period of 1990-2007 was made, objective being the randomised controlled trials in patients with AMI who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and received intracoronary BMSC transfer, and were followed up for at least 3 months.

Association of fibrinogen and fibrinogen gene beta148 and beta854 polymorphisms with coronary heart disease.

Background: The aim of this study was to observe the association between fibrinogen C148T, G854A polymorphisms and plasma fibrinogen levels in a large cohort of Chinese patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).

Methods: Fibrinogen gene beta148/beta854 polymorphisms were screened and plasma fibrinogen levels and lipids were measured in patients with angiographically confirmed CHD (n = 836) and in controls without CHD (n = 418).

Results: Age, sex, smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, blood lipids and fibrinogen levels were related to CHD (all p < 0.

[Hyperinsulinemia induced immune maturation of human monocyte derived dendritic cells: bridging between diabetes and atherosclerosis].

Objective: Dendritic cells an hyperinsulinemia are both implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The aim of this study is to explore the effect of high concentration of insulin on the maturation of monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MoDCs) and related signal transduction pathways.

Methods: Human monocytes were purified (over 98%) using Anti-CD14 micro-beads and cultured for 5 days with DC Cellgro medium containing rhGM-CSF (100 microg/L) and rhIL-4 (20 microg/L).

Myocardial bridging detection by non-invasive multislice spiral computed tomography: comparison with intravascular ultrasound.

Background: Invasive intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is current diagnostic standard for myocardial bridging (MB). Non-invasive multislice computerized tomography coronary angiography (MSCT) technique has provided a good anatomical view of the tunnel artery now.

Methods: A total of 51 consecutive patients with atypical or typical angina scheduled for IVUS were enrolled in this study and MSCT was performed 7 days before IVUS.

[Diagnostic value of multidetector spiral computed tomography in identifying the composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaques].

Objective: To estimate the feasibility of 16-multidetector spiral computed tomography (16-MDCT) on detecting coronary plaques in comparison with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).

Methods: Sixty-eight patients suspected of coronary heart diseases were examined by 16-MDCT, quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) and IVUS. Coronary stenosis was defined as lumen diameter reduction (DS) >or= 50%.

Morphological and positional relationships between the sigmoid sinus and the jugular bulb.

The purpose of this study was to determine the quantitative relationships between the positions of the sigmoid sinus (SS) and jugular bulb (JB) and the influence of mastoid pneumatization upon these structures. The investigations were carried out on 116 healthy adult ears based on the axial images of computed tomography (CT). The reference system locating the displacements of the SS and JB was established and the shape and position of the SS and JB were measured.

[Evaluation of myocardial viability with 201Tl/18F-FDG DISA-SPECT technique in patients with acute myocardial infarction after emergent intracoronary autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells transplantation].

Objective: To evaluate the myocardial viability with (201)Tl/(18)F-FDG DISA-SPECT technique in patients with acute myocardial infarction underwent emergent intracoronary autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM-MNC) transplantation.

Methods: Patients with first acute myocardial infarction underwent emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either intracoronary transplantation of autologous BM-MNC (n = 20) or to sodium chloride concluding heparin (control, n = 20) via a micro infusion catheter group immediately after PCI. Change in global left ventricular function (LVEF measured by echocardiography) and the myocardial viability detected by (201)Tl/(18)F-FDG DISA-SPECT from baseline and 6-months post transplantation were analyzed.