An open add-on study on cyclophosphamide in patients with refractory myasthenic crisis

Objective: To assess the efficacy and side effects of cyclophosphamide on refractory myasthenic crisis. Methods: Five patients of myasthenic crisis refractory to usual comprehensive treatment, entered an open additional study with cyclophosphamide 200 mg VD q. d or 400 mg VD q. o. d with 6-10 g of total dosage. The patients were followed up for 1-8 years. Results: All the 5 patients were effectively treated with obvious remission in 3 and improvement in 2. Two patients have returned to partial work. The side effects were tolerable. Conclusion: The present clinical trial showed that cyclophosphamide was effective, particularly in a long term as an additional therapy for treating MG patients with refractory crisis of myasthenia gravis.     

乳腺癌前哨淋巴结活检的临床意义

目的 评价应用蓝染料示踪剂识别乳腺癌前哨淋巴结（sentinel lymph node,SLN)的可行性和SLN预测腋窝淋巴结（axillary lymph node,ALN)转移的准确性。方法 应用专利蓝对42例临床腋窝淋巴结阴性的乳腺癌患者进行SLN定位和活检术。结果 37例找到SLN，SLN检出率88.1%，SLN的成功定位与患者的年龄有关。SLN预测ALN状态的准确率为93.8%，假阴性2例。结论 蓝染料示踪法定位乳腺癌SLN是成功率较高的方法，且操作简单，花费少，SLN活检能够准确预测腋窝淋巴结的转移状况，在将来治疗腋淋巴结阴性的乳腺癌中，这一技术可以免除患者接受不必要的腋淋巴结清扫术。     

针刺对海洛因依赖的脱毒疗效及其防复吸潜力的临床研究

目的 比较针刺、针刺加阿片、阿片加丁丙诺啡及阿片加韩氏戒毒仪4种方法的脱毒疗效及其对脱毒末期稽延性戒断症状和心理渴求的影响。方法 应用戒断症状量表观察脱毒疗效，应用视觉类比量表(VAS)研究心理渴求程度。结果 针刺改善海洛困依赖者戒断症状的优势主要表现在治疗的第6天以后，改善渴求心理的优势表现在第8天以后，且无明显副作用。结论 针刺具有防复吸潜力。可作为解决稽延性戒断症状和消除心理依赖的治疗方法。     

Expression of Na+/HCO3− co‐transporter proteins (NBCs) in rat and human skeletal muscle

Aim: Sodium/bicarbonate co‐transport (NBC) has been suggested to have a role in muscle pH regulation. We investigated the presence of NBC proteins in rat and human muscle samples and the fibre type distribution of the identified NBCs. Methods and results: Western blotting of muscle homogenates and sarcolemmal membranes (sarcolemmal giant vesicles) were used to screen for the presence of NBCs. Immunohistochemistry was used for the subcellular localization. The functional test revealed that approximately half of the pH recovery in sarcolemmal vesicles produced from rat muscle is mediated by bicarbonate‐dependent transport. This indicates that the NBCs are preserved in the vesicles. The western blotting experiments demonstrated the existence of at least two NBC proteins in skeletal muscle. One NBC protein (approximately 150 kDa) seems to be related to the kidney/pancreas/heart isoform NBC1, whereas the other protein (approximately 200 kDa) is related to the NBC4 isoform. The two NBC proteins represent the electrogenic isoforms named NBCe1 and NBCe2. Membrane fractionation and immunofluorescence techniques confirmed that the two NBCs are located in the sarcolemmal membrane as well as in some internal membranes, probably the T‐tubules. The two NBCs localized in muscle have distinct fibre type distributions. Conclusions: Skeletal muscle possesses two variants of the sodium/bicarbonate co‐transporter (NBC) isoforms, which have been called NBCe1 and NBCe2.     

火药爆炸复合烧伤大鼠血浆CK-MB与心肌MDA变化

目的 探讨烟花火药爆炸复合烧伤大鼠血浆肌酸激酶心肌同工酶(CK—MB)与心肌丙二醛(MDA)含量的变化。方法 Wistar大鼠128只，随机分为正常对照组(n=8)、烧伤组(n=40)、爆炸伤组(n=40)和复合伤组(n=40)，分别致伤形成大鼠20％体表面积Ⅲ度烧伤、火药爆炸伤和两者复合伤。动态观察大鼠伤后1、3、6、12、24h血浆CK—MB，心肌MDA含量并进行相关分析。结果 复合伤组较单因素致伤组大鼠血浆CK—MB升高明显，心肌组织MDA含量呈类似变化，CK—MB与MDA有相关性。结论 烟花火药爆炸复合烧伤对大鼠心肌的损害较单纯烧伤或爆炸伤更为严重，提示烧伤和爆炸伤有协同致伤作用，氧自由基代谢紊乱参与烟花火药爆炸复合烧伤后心肌的损伤。     

腺病毒介导的HSV-tk基因治疗人膀胱癌的动物实验研究

目的　探讨带有HSV -tk基因的重组腺病毒 (Ad -tk)结合GCV对人膀胱癌的治疗作用。方法　建立人膀胱癌裸鼠移植瘤模型 2 1只 ,采用肿瘤原位注射Ad -tk结合GCV治疗。结果　 5× 10 8PFU的Ad -tk肿瘤原位注射结合GCV治疗 ,能明显抑制肿瘤生长 ,肿瘤平均重量为 0 .2 1g ,病理检查表明肿瘤组织坏死、出血伴纤维组织增生 ;而 3个对照组Ad -tk/PBS组、PBS/GCV组、PBS组肿瘤平均重量分别为 1.6 0、1.5 2、1.71g。与对照组比较 ,肿瘤生长抑制率分别为 86 .9%、86 .2 %、87.7% ,有显著性差异 (均P <0 .0 1)。结论　Ad -tk/GCV系统对人膀胱癌的敏感性较高 ,疗效显著。     

The ordered transmission disequilibrium test: detection of modifier genes

We consider the problem of detection of modifier genes that lead to variations in a disease‐related continuous variable (DRCV), such as the age of onset or a measure of disease severity, in a strategy of candidate genes. We propose a novel method, the ordered transmission disequilibrium test (OTDT), to test for a relation between the clinical heterogeneity expressed by a DRCV and marker genotypes of a candidate gene. The OTDT applies to trio families with one patients and his parents, all three genotyped at a bi‐allelic marker M. The OTDT aims to find a critical value of the DRCV which separates the sample of families in two subsamples in which the transmission rates are significantly different. We investigate the power of the method by simulations under various genetic models and covariate distributions and compare it with a linear regression analysis. Genet. Epidemiol. 2008. ©2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

“AIDS is rape!” gender and sexuality in children's responses to HIV and AIDS

This paper examines young African school children's understanding of HIV and AIDS. Based on focus group interviews with children aged 7–8 in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, it explores the ways in which gender and sexuality feature in their responses to the disease. Data were collected between 2003 and 2004 through 26 focus groups involving 55 boys and 64 girls. The paper argues that younger children are active agents in giving meaning to the disease. Their agency is negotiated within complex social processes involving sexual violence, highly unequal gender/age inequalities, but also sexual expression. Those expressions are subsumed however under a regime of violence and fear catapulting men, albeit with contestation, as chief vectors in the spread of the disease and a source of girls' anxieties. Children's responses to the disease are the effects of material, symbolic and discursive forces effectively constraining the opportunities available to them and creating patterns of vulnerability especially for young girls. Interventions aimed at scaling up efforts to address young children responses to the disease must be situated in parallel efforts to end poverty, sexual violence and pervasive gender inequalities in order to foster more comprehensively the exercise of young children's agency.     

热疗联合化疗与单纯化疗治疗非小细胞肺癌的疗效比较

目的：探讨热疗联合化疗治疗非小细胞肺癌（non—small cell lung carcinoma，NSCLC）的疗效。方法：2003年9月～2006年11月我院对52例NSCLC进行微波热疗联合NP方案化疗联合治疗（热疗联合化疗组），3个周期后评价疗效；并与2006年1～11月16例NSCLC单纯化疗（单纯化疗组）进行对比。结果：热疗联合化疗组近期疗效明显好于单纯化疗组，热疗联合化疗组总有效率（RR）为65．4％（34／52），显著高于单纯化疗组总有效率37．5％（6／16）（Z=-2．419．P=0．016）；热疗联合化疗组结束后疼痛明显改善，单纯化疗组无镇痛作用，差异具有高度统计意义（Z=-6．486，P=0．000）；2组的不良反应主要表现为恶心、粒细胞减少、血小板降低和肝功能异常，差异无显著性（P〉0．05）。结论：热疗联合化疗治疗NSCLC疗效优于单纯化疗治疗NSCLC。     

喉返神经解剖在甲状腺手术中的应用研究

目的探讨解剖喉返神经在甲状腺手术中的应用。方法回顾分析因甲状腺疾病行手术治疗的236例患者的临床资料,共施行甲状腺手术335侧次;甲组101例行甲状腺手术158侧次,术中均未解剖喉返神经,其中57例行双侧甲状腺手术。乙组135例行甲状腺手术同时解剖喉返神经177侧次,其中42例因双侧甲状腺手术而行双侧喉返神经解剖。结果喉返神经损伤均发生在切除甲状腺范围包含背侧腺体时。甲组暂时性损伤2例,永久性损伤1例,损伤率为1.9%;乙组暂时性损伤1例,无永久性损伤病例,损伤率为0.56%;两组差异有统计学意义(χ2=0.382,P<0.01)。结论甲状腺手术中解剖喉返神经能减少喉返神经的损伤,切除背侧腺体时应常规解剖喉返神经。