The results of short-term (6 months) high-dose testosterone treatment on bone age and adult height in boys of excessively tall stature

Forty-nine pubertal tall boys with a mean height prediction of 203.59 cm according to the Bayley-Pinneau (BP) method were treated prospectively with 500 mg testosterone-oenanthate every 2 weeks for a period of 6 months. Before therapy chronological age (CA) was 14.14 years and bone age (BA) 13.88 years using the Greulich-Pyle (GP) method. During therapy BA advanced by 1.37 years. It continued to accelerate during the 6 months following therapy with the mean BA/CA being 3.01 at 3 months and 2.24 at 6 months after therapy. The 6 months value was only slightly less than the BA/CA of 2.47 obtained during therapy. The reduction in adult height was 7.26 cm or 50.8% of the predicted further growth in 12 boys with a long-term follow up of 2.5 years. This is similar to the 51.6% or 9.63 cm observed in 50 boys with a long-term follow up after 14.25 month treatment until a BA of 17 years or more. It is concluded that in the majority of cases high-dose testosterone therapy in boys of tall stature can be limited to a 6-month treatment period. Reassessment of the height prediction after a 6-month interval without therapy should define those patients who have to resume treatment because of their remaining excessive growth potential.Abbreviations CA chronological age - BA bone age - GP Greulich-Pyle - BP Bayley-Pinneau - T testosterone oenanthate - TW Tanner-Whitehouse     

水提天麻工艺的初步研究

目的：探讨天麻有效部位的水提取、分离、纯化工艺.方法：利用生物酶技术,絮凝技术对提取液作前处理,大孔吸附树脂进行水提天麻有效部位的分离、纯化.结果：提取液上吸附柱前经生物酶催化、分解,絮凝剂沉淀处理,用改良型AB-8大孔吸附树脂（弱极性）吸附、分离、纯化,有效部位平均提取率3.489%,平均含量46.08%.     

医学影像专业教学如何适应现代高素质人才需求的挑战

随着计算机及数字化技术的快速发展，医学影像检查设备不断创新，医学影像学已经成为当代医学新兴重要学科。近几年我国经济和科技有了长足的进步，许多大型医学影像设备如彩超、螺旋CT、MRI等已配备到县一级医院，沿海发达地区甚至区、镇医院亦拥有。由于我国同世界科技发达国家的差距，大部分医学影像设备有赖于进口，如何更好地发挥这些设备的社会和经济效益，培养出大批现代医学影像高素质人才，给医学影像教育提出了新任务。     

天麻对中枢神经系统影响的基础研究进展

概述了天麻对中枢神经系统的影响,探讨了其部分作用机理,为更深入地研究天麻及其在临床上的应用提供理论依据。天麻是我国民间用于治疗癫痫、中风等疾病的一种常用药。     

天麻有效成分制备与测定简易方法的探讨

目的探讨简单易行的天麻有效成分提取与测定的方法。方法将天麻用70％乙醇加热回流法制备天麻提取物，高效液相色谱法测定天麻素含量，并用紫外分光光度法测量，制天麻素含量-吸光度曲线。结果用70％乙醇加热回流法提取所得天麻提取物中天麻素含量为1．6mg／mL，紫外分光光度法测定天麻素含量在100μg／mL-300μg／mL范围与吸光度（A224nm）呈线性关系（天麻素含量Cμg／mL=-688．317＋286．000×A224nm，t=5．690，p〈0．05）。结论采用70％乙醇加热回流法制备天麻提取物，并用紫外分光光度法测定其中天麻，素含量，方法简单易行，成本低廉。     

Estrogen-induced weight gain cannot be predicted in individuals

Summary The effect of high estrogen doses on weight was studied in 36 adolescent girls with familial tall stature treated to reduce adult height. Mean weight gain during the first year was 9.03.6 kg. Thereafter, there was no or minimal gain on continued treatment. The largest weight velocity occurred during the first 6 months. Within that period, it was most marked during the first 5 weeks, probably due to early water retention. The gain (total, in different groups of patients and in treatment periods of different duration) did not correlate with height and weight before treatment expressed in absolute values or standard deviation scores. It is concluded that the weight gain induced by long-term estrogen treatment cannot be predicted quantitatively before treatment in individuals, and that heavy or fat girls do not necessarily gain more weight than light and lean girls.Abbreviations BA bone age - CA chronologic age - SDS standard deviation score     

Effects of a Korean herbal formulation, Silsosangami, consisting of seven medicinal herbs, and its seven herbs on endotoxin-induced experimental thrombosis in rats

A traditional Korean medicine, Silsosangami (SSG), consisting of seven different herbs of Typhae Pollen, Pteropi Faeces, Paeoniae Radicis rubra, Cnidii Rhizoma, Persicae Semen, Carthami Flos and Curcumae Tuber, has been reported to have a hypolipidemic effect in human subjects. In the present study, the inhibitory effects of SSG on a thrombosis in rats, induced by endotoxin treatment were examined. The anti-thrombic properties of SSG were also investigated with respect to blood parameters. The extracts of SSG and five of the seven herbs, except Cnidii Rhizoma and Carthami Flos, inhibited both endotoxin-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and thrombosis in rats. The extract also inhibited the endotoxin-induced decrease in blood platelets and fibrinogen, and the endotoxin-induced increase in fibrin degradation products (FDP) on disseminated intravascular coagulation in normal rats. In conclusion, the artificially induced, protective effects of SSG on ischemic infarction might be related to their inhibitory effects on DIC, platelet coagulation and thrombotic action.     

Ether fraction of methanol extracts of Gastrodia elata,medicinal herb protects against neuronal cell damage after transient global ischemia in gerbils

Gastrodia elata (GE), a medicinal herb, has been used traditionally for the treatment of convulsive diseases such as epilepsy in oriental countries including South Korea and still occupies an important place in traditional medicine in Asia. We designed this study to examine whether the ether fraction of methanol extracts (EFME) of GE protects the hippocampal neuronal damage induced by transient global ischemia in a gerbil model. Gerbils were treated with the EFME of GE (200 or 500 mg/kg per day, p.o.) for 14 days before brain ischemia. The lower dose of EFME of GE failed to attenuate the hippocampal neuronal damage in the CA1 region. However, the higher dose of EFME of GE attenuated the hippocampal neuronal damage in the CA1 region. The present results show that the EFME of GE has a protective effect against neuronal damage following global ischemia in gerbils.     

不同产地天麻乙酸乙酯提取物对大鼠胸主动脉环张力的影响

目的:比较云南、湖北、陕西天麻乙酸乙酯提取物对大鼠胸主动脉环张力的影响。方法:主动脉环张力测定法记录天麻乙酸乙酯提取物对大鼠胸主动脉环张力的影响。结果:三产地天麻乙酸乙酯提取物能抑制KC l引起的大鼠胸主动脉环收缩,使CaC l2量效曲线右移,最大收缩张力降低。结论:三产地天麻乙酸乙酯提取物对大鼠胸主动脉环均有舒张作用,以云南天麻作用最强。     

Reduction of adult height in tall girls

Assessment of the results of treatment of tall girls with estrogens by comparing actual mature height with predicted mature height is unreliable, unless the accuracy of prediction has been tested in untreated tall girls. We report such an investigation in 14 tall girls who were treated with estrogens and in 14 untreated tall girls. Of the three prediction methods, those of Bayley and Tanner were reliable in our hands, whereas the method of Roche was less adequate. The mean reduction of height by treatment was about 7 cm using Tanner's method of prediction, 10 cm when Bayley's method was used. The standard deviation of the difference between actual and predicted height as found in untreated girls makes it hazardous to assess the amount of height reduction in the individual treated case with any certainty.