Effect of a comprehensive geriatric assessment nursing intervention model on older patients with diabetes and hypertension.

Background: The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) was introduced late in China and is primarily used for investigating and evaluating health problems in older adults in outpatient and community settings. However, there are few reports on its application in hospitalized patients, especially older patients with diabetes and hypertension.

Aim: To explore the nursing effect of CGA in hospitalized older patients with diabetes and hypertension.

[Partial dorsal root rhizotomy increases the anterograde transportation of neunotrophic factors in primary sensory neuron].

Objective: To investigate whether partial dorsal root rhizotomy promotes the anterograde Five adult cats were transportation of BDNF, NT-3 and GDNF in the primary sensory neuron.

Methods: Subjected to unilateral spared root rhizotomy (the DRGs of L1-L5 and L7-S2 were removed, but L6 DRG was spared) and bilateral dorsal roots of L6 were ligated at the same time. Three days after operation, dorsal roots were taken out and made into frozen sections 20 microm in thickness.

Effects of acupuncture on the expression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2/bFGF) in the left sixth lumbar dorsal root ganglion following removal of adjacent dorsal root ganglia.

This investigation studied the temporal changes in the expression of GDNF and FGF-2 in the left sixth lumbar (L6) dorsal root ganglion (DRG) after acupuncture in adult cats subjected to unilateral removal of adjacent DRG. The cats were divided into three groups. Group I were normal control animals.

[Synthesis of N1-(aryl)alkyloxyacyl-5-fluorouracil derivatives].

Objective: To synthesize N1-(aryl)alkyloxyacyl-5-fluorouracil derivatives and investigate their antitumor activities.

Methods: Title compounds (I) were prepared by 5-fluorouracil which was trimethylsilylated by hexamethyl-di-silazane, and then acylated. Hydrogenization of compounds (I) brought on compounds (II), which were esterified to produce title compounds (III) afterwards.