补脾活血中药对小鼠运动时物质代谢机能的影响

利用补脾活血中药灌服小白鼠结合游泳训练，实验结果表明，6周游泳训练对小鼠的血清睾酮水平没有显著影响，训练结合补脾及补脾活血中药的灌眼，可显著提高小鼠血清睾酮水平；服药组可显著提高小鼠肌糖原含量，加速肌糖原的恢复；服药组使小鼠血清β－脂蛋白、总胆固醇、游离胆固醇含量显著低于训练及安静组。揭示服药可明显改善机体脂蛋白和脂代谢能力；眼药组可使血液脂肪酸（FFA）含量及FFA／白蛋白比值显著低于训练及安静组；服药组可显著降低血清胆红素、谷草转氨酶（GOT）活性，揭示服用中药可明显改善肝脏物质代谢能力，加速肝功能的恢复；在所有服药组中，补脾活血组效果较单独补脾和活血组为好。     

血清铜/锌比值在肝癌鉴别诊断中的应用

本文选择89年9月至90年1月住院病人39例,进行分组;另设对照组17例;采用国产WYX—402型原子吸收分光光度计(ASS)分别测得血清铜、锌及铜/锌比值。结果表明肝硬化组与正常组比较血清铜无显著差异(P>0.05),血清锌降低(P<0.05),铜/锌比值显著增高(P<0.001)。肝硬化并发肝癌组与肝硬化组比较,血清铜显著增高(P<0.001),血清锌无显著差异(P>0.05),铜/锌比值显著增高(P<0.001)。继发性肝癌组与原发性肝癌组比较,血清铜、锌及铜/锌比值均无显著性差异(P 值分别大于0.1;0.2)。研究表明,血清铜/锌比值 AFP测定有互补作用。     

黄嘌呤在多壁炭纳米管化学修饰的玻炭电极上伏安行为的研究

研究了黄嘌呤在多壁炭纳米管化学修饰的玻炭电极上的伏安行为,其结果表明,在0.1mol·L-1磷酸盐(pH=6.5)介质中,修饰电极对黄嘌呤具有强力的吸附催化作用,其催化电流与黄嘌呤浓度在310-8～610-5mol·L-1范围内线性关系,检出限为110-8mol·L-1. 利用本法测定了人体血清中黄嘌呤的含量,效果颇佳.     

pre-operative serum potassium levels and peri-operative outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Although potassium is critical for normal electro physiology, the associations between pre-operative serum potassium level and peri-operative adverse events such as arrhythmias in cardiac surgery have not been examined in detail. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of abnormal pre-operative serum potassium levels and whether such levels were associated with adverse peri-operative events in 50 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Intra-operative and post-operative arrhythmias, the need for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, cardiac death and death due to any cause prior to discharge from the post-operative intensive care unit were studied. The incidence for adverse outcome was 0.5% for death, 0.5% for cardiac death and 2% for cardio pulmonary resuscitation in patients with hypokalemia (serum potassium level <3.5 meq. L⁻¹). Hypokalemia was found to be a predictor of serious peri-operative (OR:2.2; 95% Cl: 1.2–4.1) and post-operative arrhythmias (OR: 1.7;95%Cl: 1.0–2.7). Pre-operative potassium repletion is low cost and low risk treatment measure and the data from this study suggests that screening and repletion be considered in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery.     

Impact of age on host responses to diet-induced obesity:Development of joint damage and metabolic set points

Background:Osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of pain and disability worldwide,and a large percentage of patients with osteoarthritis are individuals who are also obese.In recent years,a series of animal models have demonstrated that obesity-inducing diets can result in synovial joint damage(both with and without the superimposition of trauma),which may be related to changes in percentage of body fat and a series of low-level systemic inflammatory mediators.Of note,there is a disparity between whether the dietary challenges commence at weaning,representing a weanling onset,or at skeletal maturity,representing an adult onset of obesity.We wished to evaluate the effect ofthe dietary exposure time and the age at which animals are exposed to a high-fat and high-sucrose(HFS) diet to determine whether these factors may result in disparate outcomes,as there is evidence suggesting that these factors result in differential metabolic disturbances.Based on dietary exposure time,we hypothesized that rats fed an HFS diet for 14 weeks from weaning(HFS Weanling) would demonstrate an increase in knee joint damage scores,whereas rats exposed to the HFS diet for 4 weeks,starting at 12 weeks of age(HFS Adult) and rats exposed to a standard chow diet(Chow)would not display an increase in knee joint damage scores.Methods:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either an HFS diet for 14 weeks from weaning(HFS Weanling) or an HFS diet for 4 weeks,starting at 12 weeks of age(HFS Adult).At sacrifice,joints were scored using the modified Mankin Criteria,and serum was analyzed for a defined subset of inflammatory markers(Interleukin-6,leptin,monocyte chemoattractant protein-1,and tumor necrosis factorα).Results:When the HFS Weanling and HFS Adult groups were compared,both groups had a similar percent of body fat,although the HFS Weanling group had a significantly greater body mass than the HFS Adult group.The HFS Weanling and HFS Adult animals had a significant increase in body mass and percentage of body fat when compared to the Chow group.Although knee joint damage scores were low in all 3 groups,we found,contrary to our hypothesis,that the HFS Adult group had statistically significant greater knee joint damage scores than the Chow and HFS Weanling groups.Furthermore,we observed that the HFS Weanling group did not have significant differences in knee joint damage scores relative to the Chow group.Conclusion:These findings indicate that the HFS Weanling animals were better able to cope with the dietary challenge of an HFS diet than the HFS Adult group.Interestingly,when assessing various serum proinflammatory markers,no significant differences were detected between the HTS Adult and HFS Weanling groups.Although details regarding the mechanisms underlying an increase in knee joint damage scores in the HFS Adult group remain to be elucidated,these findings indicate that dietary exposure time maybe less important than the age at which an HFS diet is introduced.Moreover,increases in serum proinflammatory mediators do not appear to be directly linked to knee joint damage scores in the HFS Weanling group animals but may be partially responsible for the observed knee joint damage in the adults over the very short time of exposure to the HFS diet.     

血睾酮与运动

运动应激中下丘脑—垂体—性腺轴(HPG轴)功能低下或紊乱,使睾酮合成降低。其原因可能既有调节因素的变化,也有睾丸间质细胞内一些独立因素的变化。大强度运动早期血睾酮水平上升,随时间延长而下降,而皮质醇水平上升,有人提出用睾酮/皮质醇来评定机体的机能状况。血睾酮的作用机制以及运动引起的血睾酮变化的机制仍不完全清楚,尚待进一步研究。     

Mechanism of Antidiabetic Action of Compound GII Purified from Fenugreek (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Trigonella foenum graecum</Emphasis>) Seeds

To study the mechanism of action of water soluble compound GII purified from fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum) seeds which was shown earlier to have antidiabetic effect in the subdiabetic, moderately and severely diabetic rabbits. In rabbits (1–1.5 kg bw) diabetes was induced by intravenous injection of 80 mg/kg bw of alloxan. They were fed with GII at a dose of 50 mg/kg bw daily once in the morning for 15 days in the subdiabetic and moderately diabetic and 30 days in the severely diabetic rabbits. Serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), LDL + VLDL cholesterol [(LDL + VLDL)C], HDL cholesterol [(HDL)C], total tissue lipids, glycogen and enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism (glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, polyol pathway) hexokinase, glucokinase, pyruvate kinase, malic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphatase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, aldose reductase and sorbitol dehydrogenase and antioxidant enzymes glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase were estimated. Liver and kidney function parameters were also estimated. Treatment with GII for 15 days in the subdiabetic and moderately diabetic rabbits and for 30 days in the severely diabetic rabbits (i) decreased the elevated lipids TC, TG, (LDL + VLDL)C and increased the decreased (HDL)C, (ii) decreased the elevated liver and heart total lipids, TC and TG, (iii) increased the decreased liver and muscle glycogen, (iv) increased the decreased hexokinase, glucokinase, pyruvate kinase, malic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, (v) decreased the increased glucose-6-phosphatase, sorbitol dehydrogenase, aldose reductase. Results thus show that treatment with GII compound purified from fenugreek seeds for 15 days in the subdiabetic and moderately diabetic and 30 days in the severely diabetic rabbits corrects the altered serum lipids, tissue lipids, glycogen, enzymes of glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, glycogen metabolism, polyol pathway and antioxidant enzymes. Histopathological abnormalities (fatty infiltration and other cellular changes) seen in the pancreas, liver, heart and kidneys were repaired after treatment with GII. In fact partially damaged pancreas was repaired. Liver and kidney function test results were normal in the GII treated animals indicating that GII treatment is safe and free from any side effects.     

补充胆红素对运动大鼠淋巴细胞、肝细胞凋亡的影响趋势研究

目的：观察补充胆红素对运动造成的细胞凋亡的影响，为运动营养补剂的研发，减少运动性损伤提供一定的实验依据。方法：以40只健康雄性SD大鼠为研究对象，随机分成5组，通过流式细胞仪检测技术检测强抗氧化剂对淋巴细胞和肝细胞凋亡的影响，同时观察与分析外周血浆和肝组织SOD的活性与MDA的含量。结果表明：力竭运动和大强度运动训练能诱导大鼠淋巴细胞和肝细胞凋亡增加；补充胆红素使其凋亡率下降，其原因与补充胆红素能提高机体抗氧化应激有关。     

Serum lipids in dilated cardiomyopathy

Serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels were estimated in 45 dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients and were compared with 31 healthy controls. The total serum cholesterol (215±50 mg/dl) and serum triglyceride (162±76 mg/dl) levels in DCM patients did not show any significant changes as compared to normal controls. The cholesterol and triglyceride and the individual lipoprotein fractions, viz HDL, VLDL, LDL and chylomicrons were analysed in 10 patients. The values did not differ significantly when compared to those of controls. These findings suggest that serum lipids may not play a role in the antietiopathogenesis of DCM.