A nomogram for predicting cancer-specific survival in patients with uterine clear cell carcinoma: a population-based study.

Uterine clear cell carcinoma (UCCC) is a relatively rare endometrial cancer. There is limited information on its prognosis. This study aimed to develop a predictive model predicting the cancer-specific survival (CSS) of UCCC patients based on data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 2000 and 2018.

Efficacy of Qingre Huayu Fang on atherosclerotic vulnerable plaque in apolipoprotein E knockout mice: proteasome pathway involvement.

Objective: To investigate the efficacy and mechanism of the Qingre Huayu Fang () on atherosclerotic vulnerable plaque in apolipoprotein E (ApoE) knockout mice through the ubiquitin proteasome pathway.

Methods: Sixty 8-week-old C57BL/6J ApoE knockout mice were fed a high-fat for 12 weeks and randomly divided into four treatment groups (n = 15 each): high-fat control, bortezomib (a proteasome inhibitor), bortezomib combined with Qingre Huayu Fang, and Qingre Huayu Fang alone. Aortic sections were examined for plaque development, inflammatory cell infiltration, type Ⅰ/Ⅲ collagen expression and immunohistochemical staining of CD40L, nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB)/P65 and ubiquitin.

2019 Chinese Hypertension League guidelines on home blood pressure monitoring.

In China, automated blood pressure monitors have been readily available for home use. Home blood pressure monitoring has been indispensable in the management of hypertension. There is therefore a need to establish guidelines for home blood pressure monitoring on the basis of the 2012 consensus document.

Combined antihypertensive and statin therapy for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with hypertension without complications: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: High blood pressure (BP) affects over 40% of adults over the age of 25 worldwide and is the leading global risk factor for death or disability. Hypertension is also the most important risk factor for endovascular atherosclerosis, which, when combined with other cardiovascular risk factors, leads to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Statins are one of the most widely used drugs for the prevention of ASCVD.

Association Between Plasma Homocysteine and Microalbuminuria in Untreated Patients with Essential Hypertension: a Case-Control Study.

Background/aims: Kidney function is critical for homocysteine (Hcy) clearance, and plasma Hcy levels are frequently increased in patients with renal failure. Microalbuminuria (MAU) is an important marker of early renal damage caused by hypertension. At present, there is insufficient evidence on the relationship between Hcy and microalbuminuria.

Intraarticular Injection of Allogenic Mesenchymal Stem Cells has a Protective Role for the Osteoarthritis.

Background: Researchers initially proposed the substitution of apoptotic chondrocytes in the superficial cartilage by injecting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) intraarticularly. This effect was termed as bio-resurfacing. Little evidence supporting the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) by the delivery of a MSC suspension exists.

Qingre quyu granule stabilizes plaques through inhibiting the expression of tenascin-C in patients with severe carotid stenosis.

Objective: To investigate the therapeutic effects of Qingre Quyu Granule (QQG) on the patients with severe carotid stenosis, and to explore the mechanism of it.

Methods: Ninety-six patients with severe carotid stenosis were enrolled in the study and were classified into a QQG group (n=48) and a control group (n=48) randomly using consecutively numbered envelopes. The patients in the QQG group were given QQG and Western medicine, those in the control group were given Western medicine merely, the course of treatment was 16 weeks.

Alprostadil liposome microsphere preparation stabilizes vascular plaques and inhibits intra-plaque inflammation.

Background: Vulnerable plaques play an important role in the onset of sudden cardiac events and strokes. How to stabilize vulnerable plaques is still a challenge to medical science. Alprostadil is a biologically active substance with strong activity on vessel.

[Dermal hypoesthesia after total knee arthroplasty].

Objective: To observe the incidence of skin sensory loss after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and its natural history over time, and to identify the relationship between numbness area and incision length, tourniquet time, age and gender.

Methods: In the study, 132 patients (20 males and 112 females, with an average age of 69.75 years old, 135 cases of TKA) who underwent primary TKA with midline incisions were chosen and grouped chronologically (4 years, 3 years, 2 years, 1 year, 6 months, 1 month) to the investigation time point from Peking University First Hospital.

[Aortic artery elastic lamina degradation, collagen remodeling, oxides stress and inflammation in the apolipoprotein E deficient mice with or without aortic banding].

Objective: To explore the elastic lamina degradation and the collagen remodeling of aortic artery as well as oxides stress and inflammation of the apolipoprotein (Apo E) deficient mice with or without experimental hypertension.

Methods: Eighty male Apo E deficient mice were fed with high-fat diet beginning at six weeks of age. At 8-week old, they were randomly divided into hypertension group and control group (n=40 each), the mice in hypertension group were subjected the suprarenal aortic constriction operation and then randomly divided into two subgroups: 15 weeks age and 30 weeks age groups.

Effect of Qingre Quyu Granule (清热祛瘀颗粒) on stabilizing plaques in the brachiocephalic artery of apolipoprotein E deficient mice.

Objective: To investigate the effect of Qingre Quyu Granule (清热祛瘀颗粒, QRQYG) on stabilizing vulnerable plaques in apolipoprotein E (ApoE) deficient mice.

Methods: Seventy-two male ApoE deficient mice were given a high-fat diet from 6 weeks of age. At the 16th week, all the mice were randomized into 3 groups: the QRQYG group, the simvastatin group, and the control group.

Electrophoresis of a soft particle within a cylindrical pore: polarization effect with the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation.

Electrophoresis of a soft particle along the centerline of a cylindrical pore is investigated theoretically in this study. The soft particle consists of an inner hard sphere covered by a concentric porous layer with fixed charge uniformly distributed in it. The polarization effect, the deformation of ion clouds surrounding the particle due to convection flow, is taken into account properly by adopting the full nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation.

[Acetabular revision using acetabular reinforcement cages with a hook].

Objective: To evaluate the effects of cementless revising cup or acetabular reinforcement cages for reconstructing the massive acetabular deficiency.

Methods: From September 2001 to September 2008, 22 loosening acetabular cases (24 hips) were revised using cementless revising cup or acetabular reinforcement cases for reconstructing massive bone defect after particulate bone grafting. There were 2 cases (2 hips) using Lima cementless revising cup, 2 cases (2 hips) using Kerboull ring, and 18 cases (20 hips) using restoration GAP cages.

[Effect of qingre quyu granule on the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque of carotid artery in patients with stable coronary artery disease].

Objective: To investigate the effect of qingre quyu granule (QQG) for treatment of carotid vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque (CVAP) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).

Methods: Eighty-two CHD patients with stable exertional angina, complicated with CVAP and differentiated to phlegm-heat and blood-stasis syndrome type were randomly assigned to two groups equally, the test group treated by Western medical routine therapy combined with QQG, and the control group treated with Western medical routine therapy with placebo. Using high frequency ultrasonography, the number (complex and simple) and Crouse integral of CVAP and the intima-media membranous thickness of carotid artery were measured, and changes in serum levels of CD40L and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), liver and renal functions were observed.

[Polyethylene wear and osteolysis in H/G cementless total hip arthroplasty].

Objectives: To measure the linear polyethylene wear with use of a computer-assisted two-dimensional method, and to evaluate the relationship between wear and long-term clinic-radiological findings.

Methods: Between December 1991 and December 1995, the senior author performed 40 primary total hip arthroplasties with use of H/G porous-coated acetabular component. Radiographs of 40 H/G cementless total hip arthroplasties were examined for osteolysis, radiolucent line, cup migration and so on.

[The immunomodulatory effects of sijunzi decoction and its disassembled prescription on D-galactose-induced aging mice].

Objective: To observe the immunomodulatory effects of codonopsis, atractylodes macrocephala, tuceahoe, broiled licorice and sijunzi decoction on D-galactose-induced aging mice.

Methods: The models of aging mice were induced by D-galactose, the garlands and splenic lymphocyte transformation test (MTT) were used to determine the ability of erythrocytes immune and lymphocytes conversion; The content of maleic dialdehyde (MDA), activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione pemfidase (GSH-Px) in serum were detected.

Results: Sijunzi decoction and its disassembled prescription codonopsis could significantly increase the ability of T lymphocyte transformation (P<0.

Electrophoresis of a soft particle normal to a plane.

Electrophoresis of a spherical composite particle normal to a plane is investigated theoretically. The composite particle under consideration, or the "soft" particle, consists of an inner hard core coated with a concentric porous layer containing uniformly distributed fixed charges. A pseudo-spectral method based on a Chebyshev polynomial is adopted to solve the resulting electrokinetic equations.

[Effects of perindopril and enalapril on atherosclerosis development of apolipoprotein E knockout mice].

Objective: To compare the effects of perindopril and enalapril on the development of atherosclerotic lesions in ApoE knockout mice.

Methods: ApoE knockout mice were treated with perindoprilor (1.5 mg.

[Fosinopril but not metoprolol attenuated the increased matrix metallo-proteinases 9 expression at mRNA and protein levels of human umbilical vein endothelial cells exposed to oscillatory flow].

Objective: To investigate the effect of fosinopril and metoprolol on metalloproteinases 9 (MMP9) expression of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) stimulated by oscillatory flow.

Methods: HUVECs were exposed to steady laminar flow or oscillatory flow, laminar flow or oscillatory flow plus various concentrations (1 x 10(-7) mol/L, 1 x 10(-5) mol/L) of fosinopril and metoprolol for 4 and 24 hours. MMP9 mRNA and protein expressions of HUVECs were determined by RT-PCR and Western blot, respectively.

Clinical study on effect of Garlicin in stabilizing the carotid artery atherosclerotic plaque in patients with primary hypertension and coronary artery disease.

Objective: To investigate the effect of garlicin in treating carotid artery atherosclerotic plaque (CAAP) in patients with primary hypertension and coronary heart disease (PHT-CHD).

Methods: Seventy-nine patients with PHT-CHD were randomly divided into the treated group (39 patients) treated with garlicin and fosinopril and the control group (40 patients) treated with fosinopril alone. The change of CAAP was evaluated by high frequency ultrasonic examination every six months, and the changes of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and high sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) were measured by ELISA, with the observation proceeding for 52 weeks totally.

[Effects and the mechanism of carvedilol on gap junctional intercellular communication in rat myocardium].

Objective: To examine the effects of carvedilol on myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury and on gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC).

Methods: The left coronary artery was occluded for 30 min and reperfused for 4 h. The activity of creatine phosphokinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and the infarct size were measured.

Effect of stress-jump condition on electrophoretic behavior of a spherical dispersion of soft particles.

The electrophoresis of a concentrated dispersion of soft particles, where a particle comprises a rigid core and an ion-penetrable membrane layer, is modeled theoretically, taking the effect of double-layer polarization into account. In particular, the influence of a stress-jump condition of the flow field at the membrane layer-liquid interface on the electrophoretic mobility of a particle is investigated. The type of particles considered mimic biocolloids, such as cells and microorganisms, and inorganic colloids covered by an artificial polymer layer such as surfactant molecules.