[A case-control study on the duration of sleeping and cerebral infarction].

Objective: To explore the relationship between duration of sleeping and cerebral infarction.

Methods: A case-control study involved 1037 cerebral infarction patients admitted by the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University,December 2011-December 2012 as cases. Another 1205 adults free from cerebro-vascular diseases who had undergone physical examination in the hospital at the same period, were served as controls.

Mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width in vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Activated platelets play a substantial role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and atherothrombosis. Mean platelet volume (MPV) is an early marker of platelet activation, which is linked to a variety of pro-thrombotic and pro-inflammatory diseases. This study is to examine the association between platelet indices and vascular dementia (VaD) and AD.

Decreased mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width are associated with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroinflammation is a critical driving force underlying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathologies. Activated platelets play an important role in neuroinflammation and have been implicated in AD pathogenic mechanisms. Mean platelet volume (MPV), a marker of platelet activation, is involved in the pathophysiology of a variety of pro-inflammatory diseases.

Bis{μ-[4-(1,3-benzothia-zol-2-yl)phen-yl]methane-thiol-ato-κS,S':S,S'}bis-[tricarbonyl-iron(I)](Fe-Fe).

The title compound, [Fe(2)(C(14)H(10)NS(2))(2)(CO)(6)], was synthesized as a structural and biochemical model for the active site of [FeFe]-hydrogenase. The bond lengths (Fe-Fe, Fe-S and Fe-C) and angles (C-Fe-Fe and Fe-S-Fe) are within expected ranges. The S⋯S distance [2.

Cholecystokinin-8 antagonizes electroacupuncture analgesia through its B receptor in the caudate nucleus.

Objectives:   The analgesic effect of electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation has been proved. However, its mechanism of action is not clear. It has been well-known that cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8) is a neuropeptide which is mainly related to the mediation of pain.

[Culture and characterization of and lentiviral vectors mediated glial cell derived neurotrophic factor expression in mesenchymal stem cells from human umbilical cord blood].

Objective: To isolate and culture mesenchymal stem cells from umbilical cord blood (UCB-MSCs), study its biological characterization in vitro, transfect UCB-MSCs using lentiviral vectors encoding glial cell derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) gene, evaluate the biological function change of UCB-MSCs, and detect GDNF expression level in vitro.

Methods: We isolated monocyte by Ficoll density gradient, separated two kinds of adherent cells through different trypsin digestion time, and detected the cells surface markers by fluorescence activated cell sorting when it was proliferated for P7 passages. At the same time, we sub-cloned GDNF gene into lentiviral vectors and packaged lentiviral supernatant through three plasmids co-transfection method, then transfected the UCB-MSCs using lentiviral vectors encoding GDNF at different multiplicity of infection, and evaluated the change of biological function by observing the ability of proliferation and differentiation, morphology, and the cells surface markers.

Mucosal tolerance to E-selectin provides protection against cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats.

Objective: To study the effect of mucosal toleration to E-selectin on cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats and associated mechanisms.

Methods: Rats were exposed to intranasal administration of E-selectin or PBS every other day for 10 days (single-tolerization group) or on two tolerization schedules separated by 11 days (booster-tolerization group). Control group received middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) only.

1-Ethyl-6-fluoro-7-(4-methyl-piperazin-4-ium-1-yl)-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate hexa-hydrate.

In the title compound, C(17)H(20)FN(3)O(3)·6H(2)O, the pefloxacin (pef) neutral zwitterion is accompanied by six water mol-ecules of hydration. An extensive network of O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds help to establish the crystal packing.