Fufang Luohanguo Qingfei granules reduces influenza virus susceptibility via MAVS-dependent type I interferon antiviral signaling.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Fufang Luohanguo Qingfei granules (LQG) is a Chinese patent medicine, clinically used to treat flu-like symptoms including cough with yellow phlegm, impeded phlegm, dry throat and tongue. However, the protective activity of LQG against influenza infection is indeterminate.

Aim Of The Study: This study is to investigate the therapeutic effect of LQG on influenza infection and elucidate its underlying mechanism.

[The Spectral Prediction of Original Primary Pigment Based on Constrained Non-Negative Matrix Factorization].

With direct prediction in the spectral reflectance space with principal component analysis, the numbers of eigenvectors will surpass the numbers of real primary pigments while the eigenvectors and the corresponding coefficients have negative value, which can not directly presented original primary pigment spectral characteristics and corresponding concentration. We proposed an innovative spectral prediction method in which a complete linear spectral space was created according to optical properties of originals pigment. A constrained non-negative matrix factorization algorithm to predict the numbers and spectral curve shapes of real primary pigments was used in the space.

[The Research of Spectral Dimension Reduction Method Based on Human Visual Characteristics].

The traditional spectral dimension reduction methods are usually carried out by matching the reconstructed spectra to the original spectra mathematically, which will often result in reconstructed spectra of small spectral reconstruction errors but very poor colorimetric accuracy when compared with the original one. In order to minimize both the spectral and colorimetric errors more efficiently, we proposed three spectral dimension reduction methods by introducing the characteristics of human vision. The first method is VPCA, in which we apply spectral luminous efficiency function to the original spectra before reduction; The Second method (LMSPCA) uses a matrix derived from LMS cone sensitivity to weight the original spectra before reduction, and the matrix can be form by two methods, in which the L, M, S cones response offset is calculated by in two different ways: one is computed as the absolute value of each corresponding wave length offset, and the other is calculated as the square of each corresponding wave length offset.

Application of metabolomics in traditional chinese medicine differentiation of deficiency and excess syndromes in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Metabolic profiling is widely used as a probe in diagnosing diseases. In this study, the metabolic profiling of urinary carbohydrates was investigated using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and multivariate statistical analysis. The kernel-based orthogonal projections to latent structures (K-OPLS) model were established and validated to distinguish between subjects with and without diabetes mellitus (DM).

[Clinical early intervention of Tongxia Huayu Decoction on pancreatic microcirculatory disturbance in severe acute pancreatitis].

Objective: To study the mechanisms of Tongxia Huayu Decoction (a Chinese herbal decoction for purgation and removing blood stasis) in prognostic improvement for severe acute pancreatitis by early intervention on pancreatic microcirculatory disturbance.

Methods: Fifty-three patients with severe acute pancreatitis were divided randomly into treatment group (n=28) and control group (n=25). Tongxia Huayu Decoction was given to the patients in treatment group in addition to the normal treatment in control group for one week.