Effects of metamitron on fruit set and photosynthetic biological characteristics of apples.

With dwarfing interstock Fuji apples as the test materials and water treatment as the control (CK), we examined the fruit thinning effect and its influences on leaves' photosynthesis by spraying 200, 300, and 400 mg·L metamitron during the young fruit period to solve artificial fruit thinning problems (time-consuming, much labor, and low efficiency). The results showed that metamitron application could significantly reduce the inflorescence and flowers' fruit-setting rate by 16.5%-22.

[Analysis of the outcomes of squamous cell carcinoma of maxillary sinus with 3 different comprehensive treatments].

Purpose: To study the medium or long-term survival rates of different methods used in the treatment of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary sinus (SCMS).

Methods: Patients were treated by one of the following methods: 231 patients were treated with induction chemotherapy, followed by radical resection and radiotherapy (CSR); 128 patients were treated with preoperative irradiation (RS), and 87 patients underwent adjuvant radiotherapy (RSR). A total of 446 cases of SCMS from June 1985 to December 2008 were managed with unscheduled application of the above 3 kinds of treatment options.

[Grade IV myelosuppression after induction chemotherapy of TPF on oral cancer: clinical analysis of 29 cases].

Purpose: To observe and evaluate the clinical features and treatment strategies of IV myelosuppression after induction chemotherapy of oral mucosa squamous cell carcinoma under conventional dosage.

Methods: Twenty-nine patients of oral mucosa squamous cell carcinoma pathologically diagnosed between 2006 and 2012 were enrolled into this study. The patients received induction chemotherapy with docetaxel-cisplatin-5-fluorouracil (TPF) and suffered from grade IV myelosuppression.

[Responses of primary photochemical reactions in apple fruit peel to the changes of incident PFD and air temperature in sunny days].

Taking Malus domestica Borkh as test object, this paper studied the primary photochemical reactions and xanthophyll cycle in its fruit peel in response to the diurnal changes of incident photon flux density (PFD) and air temperature in sunny days. With the increase of PFD and air temperature in a daily cycle, a severe photo-inhibition of the primary photochemical reactions in M. domestica fruit peel occurred from 12:00 to 14:00.