二至天癸颗粒对黄体功能不健性不孕症患者子宫内膜容受性的影响

目的 探讨二至天癸颗粒对黄体功能不健所致不孕症患者的治疗作用及机理.方法 将60例黄体功能不健性不孕症患者随机分为二至天癸颗粒组(试验组)30例和六味地黄颗粒组(对照组)30例,观察两组治疗后中医证候改善情况,黄体中期血清雌二醇(E2)、孕酮(P)水平,黄体中期子宫内膜白血病抑制因子(LIF)表达,以及两组患者的妊娠率.结果 治疗后试验组患者中医证候改善程度优于对照组(P<0.05).试验组黄体中期血清P水平及子宫内膜LIF表达量均明显高于对照组(P<0.05);两组血清E2虽较治疗前有所降低,但差异均无统计学意义(P>0.05).试验组妊娠率亦高于对照组(P<0.05).结论 二至天癸颗粒治疗黄体功能不健性不孕症可能与其提高子宫内膜LIF的表达从而影响子宫内膜容受性有关.     

柏枣宁心颗粒治疗顽固性失眠症疗效观察

笔者自2004年1月至2008年1月，根据辨证论治以自拟柏枣宁心颗粒治疗顽固性失眠症，取得了较好疗效。现将结果报道如下。     

中药生精冲剂对精索静脉曲张大鼠的治疗

目的：研究中药生精冲剂对大鼠精索静脉曲张的影响及疗效。方法：从80只SD雄性大鼠中随机抽出20只作为假手术组，余60只均建立精索静脉曲张病理模型后随机均分为模型组、生精冲剂组和克罗米芬组。造模后15d生精冲剂组和克罗米酚组分别给予生精冲剂4g/（kg·d）和克罗米芬20mg/（kg·d）灌胃，模型组和假手术组正常喂食。造模后45d放免法测定血清性激素（FSH、LH和T）及观察各组大鼠睾丸组织结构。结果：生精冲剂组大鼠光镜下睾丸组织结构优于模型组和克罗米芬组；血清FSH、LH生精冲剂组显著低于模型组和克罗米芬组（P〈0.05），而克罗米芬组显著高于其他3组。T在生精冲剂组、克罗米芬组和假手术组之间无显著差异，但均显著高于模型组（P〈0.05）。结论：中药生精冲剂对精索静脉曲张引起的睾丸损害有保护及修复作用，且可能优于克罗米芬。     

解毒通络保肾胶囊对实验性糖尿病大鼠肾脏NF-κB表达的影响

目的研究解毒通络保肾胶囊对糖尿病(DM)大鼠肾组织中NF-κB表达的影响。方法以链脲菌素诱导的糖尿病大鼠为动物模型,经中药和西药分别治疗12周后,采用免疫组化半定量技术检测各组大鼠肾小球中NF-κB的表达水平。结果解毒通络保肾胶囊能明显改善糖尿病大鼠一般状态,降低尿蛋白,改善肾功能,减少肾小球中NF-κB蛋白表达。结论解毒通络保肾胶囊的肾保护作用可能与减少肾小球中激活的NF-κB表达有关。     

扶正化瘀胶囊干预慢性乙型肝炎肝纤维化作用的多中心临床研究

目的　研究扶正化瘀胶囊治疗慢性乙型肝炎肝纤维化的临床疗效及其安全性。方法　多中心、随机、双盲、平行对照的方法 ,入选年龄 18～ 65岁的慢性乙型肝炎肝纤维化患者。试验药 (扶正化瘀胶囊 )和对照药 (和络舒肝胶囊 ) ,均为每次 5粒 ,3次 /d口服 ;疗程 2 4周。疗程结束后进行 12周的随访。观测指标 :(1)于治疗第 0、2 4周观察肝组织病理学、HBV标志物 ,第 0、12、2 4周检测肝纤维化血清指标 (HA、LN、P Ⅲ P、Ⅳ C)、B超肝脾检查 ,第 0、6、12、18、2 4周观察肝功能 (随访期评价肝功能、血清肝纤维化指标 )。 (2 )安全性指标 :治疗前、后检测血、尿常规 ,肾功能 ,心电图。结果　 (1)受试者入组情况及人口学资料 :试验组 110例 ,对照组 10 6例 ,两组病例人口学特征、生命体征、病程、药物过敏史、既往治疗史、肝功能、纤维化血清学指标、肝组织病理学 (试验组 99例 ,对照组 96例 )、HBV标志物、肾功能等各项指标比较 ,无显著差异。 (2 )肝组织病理学 :治疗前后作活检肝组织学观察 93例 ,试验组 50例和对照组 43例治疗前纤维化分期 (S)均值分别为 2 .3 3和 2 .11。试验组治疗后S均值为 1.80 ,较治疗前显著下降。对照组治疗后S均值为 2 .14 ,与治疗前比较无显著改善。试验组活检肝组织纤维化分期判断     

Contribution of mossy fiber-granule cell pathway to the cerebellar-induced delayed inhibition in Deiters neurones

Summary In anaesthetized cats, electric pulse stimuli were applied at various lateralities to the anterior lobe of the cerebellum. In dorsal Deiters neurones delayed IPSPs with latencies of 3–6 msec were evoked from the entire area of the culmen including the paravermis bilaterally. The delayed IPSPs had a summit time of about 2 msec and a duration of about 7 msec. They showed a marked temporal facilitation and subsequent depression with double shock stimulation. Corticovestibular fibers were penetrated within the nucleus of Deiters and showed delayed, labile responses to cortical stimulation, corresponding to the delayed IPSPs in Deiters neurones. During stimulation of the anterior lobe at any laterality, field potentials recorded in the cerebellar cortex further revealed that there was activation, presumably through axon collaterals of mossy fibers, of granule cells and subsequently of Purkinje cells in the vermal cortex. Cortical events exhibited a prominent temporal facilitation and subsequent depression, in parallel with that observed for the delayed IPSPs in Deiters neurones. The delayed IPSPs in Deiters neurones arising from a wide area of the cerebellar cortex thus were attributed to activation through mossy fiber-granule cell pathway of Purkinje cells of the corticovestibular projection.     

Afferent volleys in limb nerves influencing impulse discharges in cerebellar cortex I. In mossy fibers and granule cells

Summary This paper is the first of a series in which the processing of information in the cerebellum has been studied by investigating the effects that known inputs from limb nerves produce on the unitary spike potentials in the cerebellar cortex. These spikes have been recorded extracellularly at all depths along microelectrode tracks in the 5th, 4th and 3rd lobules of the anterior lobe in the lateral vermis or in the pars intermedia. These units have a background frequency of discharge, often very irregular, and computer averaging techniques have been employed in order to derive reliable information on the time course and intensity of the excitatory and/or inhibitory actions produced by the input against this background.Most of the spike responses recorded from the granular layer fall into two classes, one characteristic of impulses in mossy fibers, and the other of impulse discharges from granule cells. Both in the spontaneous background and in the response to afferent volleys in limb nerves the mossy fibers exhibit a performance in close accord with that described for the discharges up the spino-cerebellar tracts. The short latency of 6–9 msec for hindlimb stimuli and the high frequency burst response of 2–4 impulses are characteristic. The mossy fibers displayed a wide variety of responses to the wide range of testing inputs, there being various combinations of excitatory and inhibitory responses and also delayed excitatory actions, all of which must be assumed to be reflections of synaptic influences on the cells of origin of the mossy fibers in the spinal cord.Granule cells have a longer latency by several milliseconds, 9–20 msec for the hindlimb, and a slower frequency in their burst response which tended to be longer and more irregular. The small unitary spike potentials are more difficult to isolate. Also with repetitive stimulation granule cells are more readily depressed than are mossy fibers.Usually a granule cell exhibits a wider range of response to the various cutaneous and muscular afferents of a limb. Both mossy fibers and granule cells may display reciprocal responses to volleys from muscle nerves to antagonistic muscles. This attempt to define properties of the mossy fiber and granule cell spike potentials should help in their identification in future investigations.Post-Doctoral Fellow NINDS (1F2NB40,544101 NSRB).Post-Doctoral Fellow UHF Grant No. FTF-3-UB-70.     

A comparison of behavioural effects and morphological features of grafts rich in cholinergic neurons placed in two sites of the denervated rat hippocampus

This study compared the morphological characteristics and the behavioural effects of intrahippocampal septal cell suspension grafts injected either just above the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampal region CA1 or within the dorsal leaf of the dentate gyrus (DG) in rats subjected to electrolytic fimbria-fornix lesions. The behavioural tests determined home-cage and open-field activity, as well as radial-maze performance. Cresyl-violet staining, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry, and parvalbumin, glial fibrillary acidic protein and glutamic acid decarboxylase immunocytochemistry were used for morphological assessments. The cross-sectional area of the grafts was measured between 0.8 mm and 5.3 mm posterior to Bregma and used as an index of their development. Whether injected into CA1 or DG, the grafts provided the partially denervated hippocampus with a dense AChE-positive reinnervation. Both types of grafts were devoid of reactive astrocytes (although reactive astrocytes were found close to the graft-host interface), contained almost no parvalbumin-positive neurons and showed a high density of GAD-positive terminals. One of the main differences between the two groups of grafted rats was that the suspension injected into the DG yielded grafts that, in the vicinity of the injection sites (between 2.3 mm and 4.3 mm posterior to Bregma), had a cross ectional area exceeding that of the grafts placed into CA1 by about 63–110% (average 79%), the latter being more dispersed than the former in the coronal plane. In addition, rats with grafts in the DG exhibited granule cell degeneration in the vicinity of the injection sites, whereas rats with grafts in region CA1 showed no damage near the injection sites. Concerning the behavioural data, we found that fimbria-fornix lesions induced hyperactivity in both the home cage and the open field and impaired radial-maze performance. Compared with the lesion-only rats, the grafted rats in both groups had further increased open-field and home-cage activity. While the grafts placed into region CA1 slightly, but significantly, accentuated the lesion-induced deficit in radial-maze performance, those placed into the DG had no effect. These results suggest that intrahippocampal grafts may, in some (still unspecified) conditions, produce adverse behavioural effects or no behavioural effects, despite an acceptable graft-induced cholinergic reinnervation of the hippocampus. They do not allow a clear answer to the question of whether intra-DG and intra-CA1 septal suspension grafts exhibiting almost comparable morphological features (except in their size and their dispersion in the vicinity of the injection sites) induce behavioural effects that would depend on intrahippocampal location of the grafts. They suggest, however, that the granule cell degeneration caused by the implantation procedure, in conjunction with the intragyral development of the graft, probably does not account for some of the reported adverse behavioural effects of intrahippocampal basal forebrain grafts. Finally, the finding that septal cell suspensions placed into the DG yielded larger grafts than when an equivalent number of cells was injected into CA1 might be explained by a larger lesion-induced neurotrophic activity in DG than in region CA1, although both regions had undergone a similar degree of cholinergic denervation.     

Morphological characteristics of cultured olfactory bulb cells

Cultured olfactory bulb cells from embryonic mice had ultrastructural characteristics similar to those of many cell types in the intact adult mouse olfactory bulb. Identified cultured cells included mitral/tufted cells, granule cells, short-axon cells, and fibrous and protoplasmic astrocytes. Cultured neurons were found as individual cells, clusters or aggregates. Clusters consisted of a loose array of neurons that appeared to be densely interconnected by neurites. However, few neurites or fascicles emanated from clusters to adjoining areas. Aggregates consisted of many small, usually rounded, neurons piled on top of one larger neuron, or on more than one, with typically many neurites and fascicles projecting to adjacent aggregates, clusters or individual neurons. Neurites of cultured olfactory bulb cells were well developed, and some were several millimeters long. Synapses were very prominent in these cultures, especially in aggregates, clusters, and fascicles. Electron-lucent, dense-core, and coated vesicles were present. Polarity, shape, and length of the long axis (size) of 815 cultured neurons, identified by positive anti-microtubule-associated protein 2 staining, were documented. Cultured neurons varied in size from 9 to 27 m, with an average size of 16 m. Elliptical bipolar (35%), triangular multipolar (21%), and round unipolar (15%) were the most common polarity/shape combinations found in culture. Multipolar, triangular, triangular multipolar, and elliptical bipolar cells increased in size with increasing age of culture. The relative proportions of triangular, multipolar, elliptical multipolar, and triangular multipolar cells decreased, whereas the relative proportions of round, unipolar, and round unipolar cells increased with increasing age of culture. These changes in population subtypes and cell size may indicate continued differentiation and maturation of cultured neurons.     

Stimulus-dependent activation of c-Fos in neurons and glia in the rat cerebellum

The intent of the present study was to use chemical or electrical stimulation of cerebellar afferents to determine how different stimulation paradigms affect the pattern of activation of different populations of neurons in the cerebellar cortex. Specifically, we analyzed immediate changes in neuronal activity, identified neurons affected by different stimulation paradigms, and determined the time course over which neuronal activity is altered. In the present study, we used either systemic (harmaline) or electrical stimulation of the inferior cerebellar peduncle (10 and 40 Hz) to alter the firing rate of climbing and mossy fiber afferents to the rat cerebellum and an antibody made against the proto-oncogene, c-fos, as a marker to identify activated neurons and glia. In control animals, only a few scattered granule cells express nuclear Fos-like immunoreactivity. Although no other cells show Fos-like immunoreactivity in their nuclei, Purkinje cells express Fos-like immunoreactivity within their somatic and dendritic cytoplasm in control animals. Within 15 min of chemical or electrical stimulation, numerous granule and glial cells express Fos-like immunoreactivity in their nuclei. Cells in the molecular layer express Fos-like immunoreactivity following harmaline stimulation in a time and lobule specific manner; they do not appear to be activated in the electrical stimulation paradigm. Following harmaline injections, there is an initial loss of Fos-like immunoreactivity in the cytoplasm of Purkinje cells; 90 min later, nuclear staining is observed in a few scattered Purkinje cells. Following electrical stimulation, the cytoplasmic staining in Purkinje cells is enhanced; it is never present in the nucleus. Data derived from this study reveal cell-specific temporal and spatial patterns of c-Fos activation that is unique to each paradigm. Further, it reveals the presence of an activity dependent protein in the cytoplasm of Purkinje cell somata and dendrites.