量化健康教育在CCU住院病人健康教育中的应用

医院健康教育是护理人员通过各种教育形式使病人或家属获得预防疾病、促进康复、保持健康知识的护理活动[1]。它有多种教育形式,本文就量化健康教育与随机健康教育效果进行比较。1对象与方法1.1对象2002年1月—2004年1月,知道自己所患病情,能清楚表达自己意愿的200例CCU住院病人为对象。按随机数字表将200例病人分为实验组和对照组。实验组男68例,女40例,年龄(58.7±6.9)岁;初中及以下35例,高中及以上73例;高血压36例,急性心肌梗死13例,不稳定性心绞痛17例,恶性心律失常27例(行起搏器植入术7例),急性左心衰竭15例。对照组男60例,女32例,年…     

甲睾酮对小鼠生殖系统发育及生精功能的影响

目的 探讨甲睾酮对雄性小鼠精子的产生及生殖器官的影响.方法 将48只昆明小白鼠随机分为4组,每组12只,每天分别向各组灌胃甲睾酮16 mg/kg,32 mg/kg,64 mg/kg 和等量蒸馏水(对照组),连续10 d.结果 与对照组比较,甲睾酮16 mg/kg组精子活率最高为66.22%(P<0.05);甲睾酮64mg/kg组睾丸指数、精子畸形率、精子密度都极显著和显著地升高(P<0.01和P<0.05),且睾丸组织有较明显的病理学损伤.结论 适量甲睾酮能提高精子活率,大剂量使精子活率降低且畸形率升高.     

Lipid extract from completely sporoderm‐broken germinating Ganoderma sinensis spores elicits potent antitumor immune responses in human macrophages

Ganoderma sinensis has been used widely in Oriental countries for the prevention and treatment of various diseases including cancer. Previous studies have shown that the lipid extract from Ganoderma exhibits direct cytotoxicity against tumor cells. Here, it is reported that the lipid extract from germinating G. sinensis spores, at lower concentrations that have no direct tumoricidal activity, induce potent antitumor immune responses in human monocytes/macrophages. Upon stimulation with the lipid extract, monocytes/macrophages exhibited markedly increased production of proinflammatory cytokines and surface expression of costimulatory molecules. Conditioned medium from stimulated cells effectively suppressed the growth of tumor cells. Apparently, the lipid extract triggered macrophage activation via a mechanism different from that associated with LPS. Moreover, it was observed that the lipid extract could partially re‐establish the antitumor activity of the immunosuppressive tumor‐associated macrophages. These results indicated that in addition to its direct tumoricidal activity, the lipid extract from G. sinensis spores could exert antitumor activity by stimulating the activation of human monocytes/macrophages. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Kindergarten children's representation and understanding of written number symbols

Two samples of kindergarten children's representation and understanding of written number symbols were examined in two time points in one academic year. About 85% of Chinese five year olds (mean = 5 years 10 months) were able to use conventional number symbols to represent the quantity of 30 or larger. At the end of the kindergarten year, 94% of Chinese six year olds (mean = 6 years 4 months) were able to use conventional number symbols to represent the quantity of 100 or larger. Some Chinese six year olds had problems in representing written addition and subtraction tasks. Children's ability to represent written number symbols, ability to represent written addition and subtraction formula and their performance on written addition and subtraction were closely related. The performance of children in a university-affiliated childcare center was better than that of the center serving working-class families in Time 1, but the performance reversed at the end of the kindergarten year.     

Detection of glaucomatous damage using multifocal ERG

The first‐order kernel analysis in multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) using low contrast stimulation is suggested as a way to detect the inner retinal responses in animal studies. In this case report, this protocol is applied to human patients with glaucoma to demonstrate the possibility of using mfERG as a tool to detect glaucomatous damage. Two patients with glaucoma were recruited and had mfERG measurements with the 103‐scaled hexagonal stimulus pattern at low (50 per cent) contrast. Their responses were analysed and compared with those from normal subjects with the mfERG measured under the same condition. In the normal subjects, there were obvious oscillatory components on the ascending and descending limbs of the first‐order kernel response to 50 per cent contrast. In the glaucomatous patients, the oscillatory component on the descending limb was obviously diminished. In addition, this component was significantly diminished in the quadrant with a glaucomatous visual field defect. This suggests that the low‐contrast stimulation condition in mERG measurement may provide a good way to detect glaucomatous damage and this may help in clinical diagnosis of glaucoma.