Dear Editor： The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis （MDR-TB） is bringing new challenges. MDR-TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis （M. tuberculosis） that is resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin,...Dear Editor： The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis （MDR-TB） is bringing new challenges. MDR-TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis （M. tuberculosis） that is resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, with or with- out resistance to other anti-tuberculosis drugs. Approximately 450,000 people developed MDR-TB worldwide in 2012 and an estimated 170,000 people died from the disease. Bacterial burden is not strictly corre- lated with disease progression, and several hallmarks of severe tuberculosis suggest that insufficiently controlled inflammation plays an important role in pathogenesis.展开更多
Purpose: To study the mechanism of early acupuncture treatment in resisting inflammatory injury in cerebral ischemia reperfusion (IR) rats. Methods: A total of 120 Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal control...Purpose: To study the mechanism of early acupuncture treatment in resisting inflammatory injury in cerebral ischemia reperfusion (IR) rats. Methods: A total of 120 Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal control,sham operation, model and EA groups, and each of them were further divided into IR 12 hr, IR 24 hr and IR 48 hr subgroups, with 10 cases being in each subgroup. Cerebral ischemia was produced by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery for 0.5 hr. Shuigou (GV 26) and Baihui (GV 20) were punctured and stimulated electrically with an EA therapeutic apparatus. Serum IL 1β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α contents were assayed by using radioimmunoassay. Results: Results showed that serum IL 1β and TNF α contents of model group were significantly higher than those of normal control and sham operation groups at IR 12 hr, 24 hr and 48 hr (P<0.05), meaning that following IR, the production and release of these two cytokines in the blood increased obviously; comparison between EA and model groups displayed that serum IL 1β and TNF α levels of EA group were strikingly lower than those of model group (P<0.01), suggesting that EA stimulation can suppress IR induced increase of production and release of these two cytokines. Conclusion: EA can suppress cerebral IR induced increase of serum IL 1β and TNF α, which may contribute to the effect of acupuncture in resisting cerebral IR injury in the treatment of stroke.展开更多
文摘Dear Editor： The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis （MDR-TB） is bringing new challenges. MDR-TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis （M. tuberculosis） that is resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, with or with- out resistance to other anti-tuberculosis drugs. Approximately 450,000 people developed MDR-TB worldwide in 2012 and an estimated 170,000 people died from the disease. Bacterial burden is not strictly corre- lated with disease progression, and several hallmarks of severe tuberculosis suggest that insufficiently controlled inflammation plays an important role in pathogenesis.
文摘Purpose: To study the mechanism of early acupuncture treatment in resisting inflammatory injury in cerebral ischemia reperfusion (IR) rats. Methods: A total of 120 Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal control,sham operation, model and EA groups, and each of them were further divided into IR 12 hr, IR 24 hr and IR 48 hr subgroups, with 10 cases being in each subgroup. Cerebral ischemia was produced by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery for 0.5 hr. Shuigou (GV 26) and Baihui (GV 20) were punctured and stimulated electrically with an EA therapeutic apparatus. Serum IL 1β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α contents were assayed by using radioimmunoassay. Results: Results showed that serum IL 1β and TNF α contents of model group were significantly higher than those of normal control and sham operation groups at IR 12 hr, 24 hr and 48 hr (P<0.05), meaning that following IR, the production and release of these two cytokines in the blood increased obviously; comparison between EA and model groups displayed that serum IL 1β and TNF α levels of EA group were strikingly lower than those of model group (P<0.01), suggesting that EA stimulation can suppress IR induced increase of production and release of these two cytokines. Conclusion: EA can suppress cerebral IR induced increase of serum IL 1β and TNF α, which may contribute to the effect of acupuncture in resisting cerebral IR injury in the treatment of stroke.
