Biomedical subjects
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The indigotin and indirubin contents of Radix Isatidis, its aqueous extract and residues, as well as extract with 95%, 50% alcohol were determined by TLC-densitometry. The authors throw doubt upon the current processes of extracting with water and precipitating with alcohol for Radix Isatidis, and indicate that the method of extraction with alcohol can give more indigotin and indirubin.
In elucidating the morphologic basis of cervical spondylosis, the nerves accompanying the vertebral artery were studied under an operative microscope and by means of Karnovsky's histochemical method for acetylcholinesterase (AChE). The results show that the nerves arising from the cervical part of the sympathetic trunk and the cervical nerves anastomose with each other around the artery, and are distributed to the vertebral artery and the cervical spine. The nerves accompanying the vertebral artery show different degrees of AChE activity, and may be compressed or stimulated as a result of disease of Luschka's joint and the other degenerated structures, based on their anatomic relationship.
A piece of skeletal muscle was used as a conduit to bridge the gap microsurgically between the two ends of the severed sciatic nerve in 30 rats, and a method for histochemical demonstration of acetylcholinesterase was employed to assess the nerve regeneration process 5 weeks or more after the operation. Regenerating nerve fibers were detected in the muscle and could be traced through to the distal stump of the severed sciatic nerve. This suggests that skeletal muscle might serve as a grafting conduit for the repairing of peripheral nerve injuries.
Little is known about the association between prior gestational hyperglycemia of different severity and the subsequent risk for the metabolic syndrome. Eighty-one women with prior gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), 25 with one abnormal value at the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), and 65 with normal OGTT were studied after a mean of 8.5 yr from the index pregnancy. Patients with prior gestational hyperglycemia (both one abnormal value at the OGTT and GDM) showed a worse metabolic pattern than subjects with gestational normoglycemia [respectively higher values of body mass index (BMI), waist, blood pressure, serum glucose, insulin, C-peptide, homeostatic model assessment (HOMA), fibrinogen and lower levels of HDL-cholesterol]. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components was 2-4-fold higher in women with prior gestational hyperglycemia (and 10-fold higher if pre-pregnancy obesity coexisted) when compared to normoglycemic controls; in a Cox proportional hazard model, after adjustments for age and pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational hyperglycemia and pre-pregnancy BMI predicted subsequent metabolic syndrome [respectively: hazard ratio (HR)=4.26 and HR=1.21] and most of its components. In the same model, the highest quartile of fasting serum glucose at the OGTT of the index pregnancy was significantly associated to the metabolic syndrome and its components. Gestational hyperglycemia and fasting glucose values were also associated to subsequent fibrinogen values, but not to albumin excretion rates. In young adult women, prior gestational hyperglycemia (particularly abnormal fasting glucose values), above all in combination with pre-pregnancy obesity, anticipates a subsequent syndrome at high cardiovascular risk and, possibly, a mild chronic inflammatory response.