Zn/Sr dual ions-collagen co-assembly hydroxyapatite enhances bone regeneration through procedural osteo-immunomodulation and osteogenesis.

The immune microenvironment induced by biomaterials played vital roles in bone regeneration. Hydroxyapatite (HA) and its ion-substituted derivates represent a large class of core inorganic materials for bone tissue engineering. Although ion substitution was proved to be a potent way to grant HA more biological functions, few studies focused on the immunomodulatory properties of ion-doped HA.

[Automatic Assessment of Facial Nerve Function Based on Infrared Thermal Imaging].

Facial paralysis which is mainly caused by facial nerve dysfunction is a common clinical entity. It seriously devastates a patient’s daily life and interpersonal relationships. A method of automatic assessment of facial nerve function is of critical importance for the diagnosis and treatment of facial paralysis.

[Objective assessment of facial paralysis using infrared thermography and formal concept analysis].

This paper presented a novel approach to objective assessment of facial nerve paralysis based on infrared thermography and formal concept analysis. Sixty five patients with facial nerve paralysis on one side were included in the study. The facial temperature distribution images of these 65 patients were captured by infrared thermography every five days during one-month period.

[Using infrared thermal asymmetry analysis for objective assessment of the lesion of facial nerve function].

The skin temperature distribution of a healthy human body exhibits a contralateral symmetry. Some lesions of facial nerve function are associated with an alteration of the thermal distribution of the human body. Since the dissipation of heat through the skin occurs for the most part in the form of infrared radiation, infrared thermography is the method of choice to capture the alteration of the infrared thermal distribution.

[Anomaly of infrared thermal radiation intensity on unilateral mild to moderate Bell's palsy].

Bell's palsy is a kind of facial nerve diseases with a high incidence, and the patients who get the disease the first time predominate in the patients who suffer mildly or moderately. The aim of the present study is to explore a novel assessment for Bell's palsy objectively and noninvasively based on infrared thermal image. As the acupoints on the face are approximately bilateral symmetric, the acupoints on the affected side were chosen as the experimental group, while the same ones on the other side as the control group.

[Research on the correlation between the temperature asymmetry at acupoints of healthy and affected side and the severity index of facial paralysis].

Objective: To observe the change trend of the temperature asymmetry coefficient at acupoints between healthy side and affected side in patients with facial paralysis, to study the correlation between the temperature asymmetry and Facial Disability Index (FDI), to provide scientific guidance for the application of infrared thermography in the examination of severity of facial paralysis.

Methods: Using the infrared thermography to observe the temperature asymmetry at acupoints, the temperature asymmetry coefficient at acupoints between healthy side and affected side was calculated; the correlation between the temperature asymmetry and FDI was analyzed.

Results: The correlation between the temperature asymmetry coefficient and FDI was statistically significant at acupoints of Yang-bai (GB 14), Cuanzhu (BL 2), Dicang (ST 4), Yuyao (EX-HN 4), Quanliao (SI 18), Jiache (ST 6) (P < 0.

[Comparing of different methods on habitat adaptive division of Chinese material medica].

Objective: To comparing two kinds habitat adaptive division of Chinese material medica with different models.

Method: The habitat adaptive divisions of A. lancea according essential oil accumulation with two kinds pattern, model pattern and template pattern were carrid and compared.

[Key influencing factors on essential oil components of Atractylodes lancea and study on its division of climate adaptability].

Objective: To find the key factors that influence the content of the essential oil components of Atractylodes lancea and classify the habitat of A. lancea based the essential oil components, as well as explore a new method to conduct division of Chinese natural medicin through geographic information system (GIS) ultimately.

Method: The key factors were obtained by canonical correlation and stepwise regressive analysis.