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Exploration on the effect and mechanism of Shenfu injection on resuscitation from general anesthesia

To investigate the effect and the mechanism of Shenfu injection (SFI) on the resuscitation from general anesthesia. Forty patients who received selective abdominal surgery with general anesthesia for 3-4 hrs and ASA grade I-II were divided into two groups, the trial group and the control group, 20 patients in each group. After being sent into the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), the trial group was treated with intravenous dripping of SFI 1.0 ml/kg and the control group was treated with intravenous dripping of equal volume of normal saline. All patients were observed in double blindly manner, the self ventilation recovery time, extubation time, the time of leaving PACU and their Glasgow coma scale (GCS) were recorded and compared. 2 ml of peripheral venous blood were taken to determine the plasma beta-endorphin (beta-EP) content at the time points of before (T1), 5 min (T2), 15 min (T3) and 30 min (T4) after dripping. The self ventilation recovery time, extubation time and time of leaving PACU in the trial group were all shorter than those in the control group (P < 0.01), the GCS in the trial group was better than that in the control group (P < 0.01). The plasma content of beta-EP raised gradually along the recovering of patients consciousness, as compared with the content before dripping (T1), it showed insignificant difference at time point T2 but significant difference at T3 and T4 comparison at the corresponding time point showed that the content at T1 and T2 were similar in the two groups (P > 0.05), but at T3 and T4, the content was higher in the trial group than that in the control group respectively (P < 0.01). SFI could accelerate the resuscitation after general anesthesia, the mechanism may be related with its action in raising plasma beta-EP level.

Expression of P450c17 messenger ribonucleic acid in postmenopausal human ovary tissues

Objective: To investigate the expression of the P450c17 gene in postmenopausal human ovaries compared with normal cycling ovaries. Design: Prospective nonrandomized clinical research study. Setting: Servei de Medicina Reproductiva and Centre d’Investigacions en Bioquı́mica i Biologia Molecular, Hospitals Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. Patient(s): Six premenopausal women and four postmenopausal women undergoing bilateral oophorectomy for nonovarian gynecologic disease. Intervention(s): Extraction of 10 mL of peripheral venous blood for hormone measurements. Extraction of RNA from surgically removed ovaries for Northern blot, ribonuclease protection, and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction Southern blot assays. Main Outcome Measure(s): Definition of the reproductive cycle state of each patient and determination of the level of P450c17 gene expression in all samples with the use of the semiquantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction Southern blot assay. Result(s): P450c17 messenger RNA levels in postmenopausal ovaries varied considerably between samples. Although the levels were similar to those detected in the early follicular phase, one of the samples had levels as high as those observed in the late follicular phase. Conclusion(s): Although the degree varied from one sample to another, all the postmenopausal ovaries studied expressed the P450c17 gene at the messenger RNA level. In a sample from a patient with endometrial adenocarcinoma, the level was as high as the levels observed in the late follicular phase.

ISOLATION AND PROPERTIES OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE LYSOSOMES IN VITRO.

SummaryA method has been described for isolation of human polymorphonuclear leukocyte lysosomes from 25 ml of peripheral venous blood. These granules resembled in content and behavior the granules of rabbit white cells and rat and rabbit liver. The “latent” acid hydrolases could be released from the granules by agents which have been shown to disrupt lysosomes from other tissues: streptolysins, lysolecithin, and etiocholanolone.