HuoXueTongFu formula induces M2c macrophages via the MerTK/PI3K/AKT pathway to eliminate NETs in intraperitoneal adhesion in mice.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: HuoXueTongFu Formula (HXTF) is a traditional Chinese herbal formula that has been used as a supplement and alternative therapy for intraperitoneal adhesion (IA). However, its specific mechanism of action has not been fully understood.

Aim Of The Study: In surgery, IA presents an inevitable challenge, significantly impacting patients' physical and mental well-being and increasing the financial burden.

Blocking coprophagy increases the levels of inflammation and depression in healthy mice as well as mice receiving fecal microbiota transplantation from disease model mice donors.

Rodents have been extensively used as animal models in microbiome studies. However, all rodents have a habitual nature called coprophagy, a phenomenon that they self-reinoculate feces into their gastrointestinal tract. Recent studies have shown that blocking coprophagy can alter rodents' diversity of gut microbiota, metabolism, neurochemistry, and cognitive behavior.

[Plastic bronchitis associated with severe influenza A (H1N1) in children: a case report and review of the literature].

Objective: to improve understanding of the pathological and clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of plastic bronchitis associate with influenza A (H1N1).

Methods: one case of plastic bronchitis associated with influenza A (H1N1) diagnosed and treated in our hospital in January 2010 was reported and 19 cases of plastic bronchitis reported in the literature were reviewed.

Results: we describe a 5-year-old Chinese Japanese boy presenting with cough for 2 days, gasping and fever for 1 day was admitted.