Combined traditional Chinese medicine therapy for the treatment of infertility with polycystic ovary syndrome: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) infertility has attracted great attention from researchers due to its high incidence. Numerous studies have shown that Chinese medicine is effective in treating this disease, but there is a wide variety of Chinese medicine therapies available, and there is a lack of comparative evaluation of the efficacy of various Chinese medicine combination therapies in the clinic, which requires further in-depth exploration. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a combined traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy for the treatment of infertility with PCOS using network meta-analysis (NMA).

Innovation and authenticity: Constructing tourists' subjective well-being in festival tourism.

Although festival tourism is an excellent fertile ground for improving individual emotions, few studies have been conducted on the influencing factors and formation mechanisms of festival tourists' subjective well-being. To address the current research gap, this paper draws on Arnold' s theory of emotion to examine a comprehensive formation model of tourists' subjective well-being. The findings from 581 samples indicate that event design innovation, cultural innovation and aesthetic innovation of festival tourism are positive stimulus factors of tourists' subjective well-being.

Cytogenetic Diversity of Simple Sequences Repeats in Morphotypes of Brassica rapa ssp. chinensis.

A significant fraction of the nuclear DNA of all eukaryotes is comprised of simple sequence repeats (SSRs). Although these sequences are widely used for studying genetic variation, linkage mapping and evolution, little attention had been paid to the chromosomal distribution and cytogenetic diversity of these sequences. In this paper, we report the distribution characterization of mono-, di-, and tri-nucleotide SSRs in Brassica rapa ssp.

[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.

[Intracoronary and hypodermic injection of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor improved cardiac function in Swine with chronic myocardial ischemia].

Objectives: To compare the efficacy and feasibility between intracoronary and hypodermic injection of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on improving cardiac function in a Swine model of chronic myocardial ischemia.

Methods: Eighteen Swine underwent placement of ameroid constrictor on left circumflex coronary artery. The presence of myocardial ischemia was verified at four weeks after the operation, and the animals were then randomly assigned into three groups (n = 6 each): (1) administration of vehicle (control), (2) hypodermic injection of G-CSF (5 microgxkg(-1)x;d(-1)) for five days (IH), and (3) intracoronary injection of a bonus G-CSF (60 microg/kg) (IC).

[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.