abstract：:Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) plays an important role in the treatment of early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly when patients are unable to tolerate surgical resection due to comorbid conditions or are unwilling to undergo surgery. High rates of local tumor control that may rival th...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yang G,Li M,Wang Y,Wang Y,Liu X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the safety, feasibility and mid-term results of laparoscopy-assisted surgery in the treatment of locally advanced gastric antral cancer. The clinical data of 50 patients who received laparoscopy-assisted surgery (Group A) and 62 patients who were treated by conventional laparot...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Fang F,Han F,Ding YL,Wang HJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on immune function in patients undergoing supratentorial craniotomy. We also examined whether point specificity in EA was present. The study involved 29 patients undergoing craniotomy. The patients were divided into three groups: a control (C, ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Li G,Li S,Wang B,An L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac inhibition due to burn injury and anesthetics have been documented previously. However, little is known about their combined effects on cardiac function. The aim of the present study was to observe the effects of a ketamine/xylazine (K/X) combination on the cardiac function of rats with severe scalds and compa...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Feng Y,Chai J,Chu W,Ma L,Zhang P,Duan H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ameloblastoma is a locally invasive benign odontogenic tumor with a high rate of recurrence in the long term. The authors conducted a retrospective study of patients with mandibular ameloblastoma in order to evaluate recurrent ameloblastoma management. The study included data from 31 patients over a period of 10 years...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Infante-Cossio P,Prats-Golczer V,Gonzalez-Perez LM,Belmonte-Caro R,Martinez-DE-Fuentes R,Torres-Carranza E,Gacto-Sanchez P,Gomez-Cia T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of parecoxib sodium for acute postoperative pain. PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EBSCO, Springer, Ovid and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases were searched from January 1999 to January 2013 to comprehe...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wei W,Zhao T,Li Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to develop an animal model of pulmonary fat embolism (PFE) caused by femoral intramedullary procedures, and to investigate the initial changes in the hemodynamics, cytokines and risk factors of PFE. Sixteen dogs were randomly divided into two groups: Group A (intramedullary reaming and...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhou F,Ji J,Song Q,Peng Z,Zhang G,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the optimal intensity of anticoagulation therapy in elderly patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), using aspirin and varied concentrations of warfarin. Elderly patients with PAF (n=1,162) who met the inclusion criteria of the study and were at middle or high-r...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen X,Wan R,Jiang W,Zhang H,Zhen R,Ying Q,Li W,Qian H,Wei F,Xu Z,Tang J,Lei H,Zhou Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diaphragm is an important respiratory organ. The aim of this study was to quantitatively evaluate the longitudinal deformation of the right hemidiaphragm in normal subjects using two-dimensional strain ultrasound speckle tracking. Twenty-one healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. GE Healthcare Vivid E9 equi...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Ye X,Xiao H,Bai W,Liang Y,Chen M,Zhang S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that the Rho/Rho-associated protein kinase (Rho/ROCK) and nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling pathways are involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic vascular injury. In this study, we investigated the beneficial effects of fasudil, a ROCK inhibitor, on vascular endothelial injury ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Lu Y,Li H,Jian W,Zhuang J,Wang K,Peng W,Xu Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors are widely used for postoperative pain control in clinical practice. However, it is unknown whether spinal sensitization is involved in the analgesic effects of COX-2 inhibitors on surgical pain. Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the spinal cord is implicated in various t...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Guo YJ,Shi XD,Fu D,Yang Y,Wang YP,Dai RP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the etiology and diagnosis of multiple intracranial hemorrhages (ICHs) following severe burns, with a retrospective review of 16 cases of severe burns further complicated by multiple ICHs. Using cranial CT scans of the brains, we identified that all patients presented with low plat...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhou J,Liu J,Luo C,Hu F,Liu R,Chen Z,Chen Y,Xiong W,Xie J,He Q,Yin C,Wang S,Zhang Y,Zeng S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic value of pathological indicators to predict the efficacy of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with nasal polyps. A total of 53 patients with CRS with nasal polyps, who had undergone endoscopic surgery at least one year bef...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Tang J,Liu S,Zhang L,Chen W,Shi S,Yu Q,Tang C,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical features of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive and negative diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) and to compare the outcomes and serum hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA loads of patients treated with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone (CHO...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Xie W,Zhou D,Hu K,Xiao X,Huang W,He J,Shi J,Luo Y,Zhang J,Lin M,Cai Z,Huang H,Ye X

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ouabain (EO) on myocardial remodeling. Twenty-two adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups: the rats in the EO group (n=12) were intraperitoneally injected with EO daily and those in the control group (n=10) were injected with physiolog...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Ren Y,Zhang M,Zhang T,Huang R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philips Intellivue MP50 monitor provides a method for non-invasive, near-continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring and is designed to be an alternative to direct intra-arterial BP (IABP) measurement. However, no studies have specifically compared non-invasive and invasive BP measurements using the monitor. The pre...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Meng X,Zang G,Fan L,Zheng L,Dai J,Wang X,Xia W,Liu J,Zhang C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the use of urantide as an antagonist of the urotensin II (UII) receptor, G protein-coupled receptor 14 (GPR14), to protect against atherosclerosis (AS) in rats. The AS rat model was induced by an intraperitoneal injection of vitamin D3 (VD3) into rats fed with a high-fat diet for f...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhao J,Yu QX,Kong W,Gao HC,Sun B,Xie YQ,Ren LQ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the application of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) ultrasound imaging and its potential value in the characterization of cervical cancer. ARFI ultrasound imaging of the uterine cervix was performed in 58 patients with cervical cancer prior to surgery. The diagnosis of cerv...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Su Y,DU L,Wu Y,Zhang J,Zhang X,Jia X,Cai Y,Li Y,Zhao J,Liu Q

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between metabolic syndrome (MS) and vascular endothelial cell dysfunction (ECD) in adolescents. Sixty obese pediatric inpatients at the General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University from February 2011 to February 2012 were included. Among these, 30 patients wer...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wei Y,Liu G,Yang J,Zheng R,Jiang L,Bao P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment for depression in the convalescent stage following cerebral hemorrhage. A total of 60 cases of patients with depression in the convalescent stage following cerebral hemorrhage (2-6 months) were randomly divided into the trea...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Cao H,Ju K,Zhong L,Meng T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize histo-chemical patterns and Das-1 and Ki67 protein expression in gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) and intestinal metaplasia (IM) lesions adjacent to GCA. Histochemical techniques, including Alcian blue/periodic acid-Schiff (AB/PAS), high iron diamine/Alcian blue (HID/AB) an...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Feng XS,Wang YF,Hao SG,Ru Y,Gao SG,Wang LD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary embolism may escape prompt diagnosis since clinical symptoms and signs are nonspecific. The occurrence of syncope as the sole initial symptom in a previously healthy patient with no predisposing factors to embolism and no hemodynamic instability is extremely rare, which may have been a factor in the delayed ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Jiang AG,Lu HY

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to establish and to optimize the preparation technology of whole blood internal quality control (IQC) products for blood transfusion compatibility testing. Several B-type RhD-negative blood samples collected from healthy donors were mixed. Two groups of whole blood IQC products, namely, the p...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yu Y,Ma C,Feng Q,Chen X,Guan X,Zhang X,Chen L,Lin Z,Pan J,Zhang T,Luo Q,Wang D

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of apolipoprotein E (Apo E) gene polymorphisms in the etiology of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is not clearly understood. We evaluated this polymorphism in unexplained pregnancy losses in a group of Turkish women. In our prospective case-control study, 45 well-characterized RPL cases were examined for their...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Korkmazer E,Ustunyurt E,Tekin B,Cilingir O

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the chronergy of intravenous recombinant streptokinase (r-SK) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A total of 114 patients were divided into two groups according to the time of AMI onset: the morning onset (6:01-12:00, n=53) and non-morning onset (12:01-06:00, n=61) ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang ZM,Liu YB,Jin QC,Wang XQ,Dai M,Shao H,Zhao WP,Dong QL,Wang SP,Zhang HT,Kong LC,Liu SY,Wang DY

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotid artery stenosis is a notable cause of ocular ischemic disease. To analyze the ocular ischemic diseases caused by carotid artery stenosis and to seek effective treatment, a retrospective review of 182 patients with carotid artery stenosis was performed. These patients were administered medical treatment, caroti...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yan Y,Zhang X,Yang Y,Han L,Wang H,Hu J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that breathing exercises may improve the prognosis and health status in patients with lung cancer by enhancing pulmonary function and quality of life (QOL). However, individually published results are inconclusive. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to evaluate the clinical value of b...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu W,Pan YL,Gao CX,Shang Z,Ning LJ,Liu X

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-port laparoscopic technology is effective in minimally invasive surgery. However, this technology requires expensive instrumentation. In the present study, an alternative minimally invasive technique, periumbilical laparoscopic surgery through triple channels using common instrumentation, is introduced. Increas...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Ge JY,Wang L,Zou H,Zhang XW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect early changes (within 1-4 h) in the brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels of rats with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A total of 35 Wistar rats were established as models of AMI and 30 sham-operated rats were used as the control group. The myocardia of the two groups were obser...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Li J,Yin FF,Hou YL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the Rho/Rho associated coiled coil-forming protein kinase (Rock) signaling pathway in the pathogenesis of ischemic myocardial fibrosis (MF) in rats. The MF rat model was established using isoprenaline hydrochloride (ISO, 15 mg/kg). Rats were randomly divided into te...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Gao HC,Zhao H,Zhang WQ,Li YQ,Ren LQ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug eruption is a major problem of adverse drug reactions and may present as variform clinical manifestations. Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) are relatively rare severe drug eruptions. It has rarely been reported that AGEP overlaps or mimics TEN, while no purule...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Liu LF,Yan JL,Wang JY,Chen JS,Cai SQ,Lao LM,Zheng M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the correlations between the detection rate of mural coronary artery (MCA) by 128-slice CT and the MCA compression extent in systole with myocardial bridge (MB) length and thickness. A retrospective analysis was conducted for 580 patients receiving multislicespiral CT coronary angiograp...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Niu YJ,Zhang XL,Cao AD,Leng B

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of 64-multislice spiral computed tomography (64-MSCT) for coronary stenosis compared with selective X-ray coronary angiography (SCA). Patients with chest pain, chest tightness or coronary stenosis received SCA and they acted as the controls. The sensitivity an...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Cheng L,Jing S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of the serum angiopoietin (Ang)-1 and Ang-2 levels and the Ang-2 to Ang-1 ratio (Ang-2/Ang-1) with heart failure (HF) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during hospitalization. The serum Ang-1 and Ang-2 levels of the AMI patients were meas...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Chen S,Guo L,Chen B,Sun L,Cui M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA methylation inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-aza-CdR) is widely used as an anticancer drug for the treatment of leukemia and solid tumors. Gastric cancer (GC) patients who were positive for caudal type homeobox transcription factor 2 (CDX2) expression showed a higher survival rate compared with those who we...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Zhang JF,Zhang JG,Kuai XL,Zhang H,Jiang W,Ding WF,Li ZL,Zhu HJ,Mao ZB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful eyelid reconstructions have been reported when using an axial nasal chondromucosal flap based on the dorsal nasal artery. The present study aimed to present a detailed anatomical description of the blood supply of the lateral nasal region and the angular artery, in order to propose the angular vessels as a ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Hou D,Fang L,Zhao Z,Zhou C,Yang M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermingling of two malignant neoplasms within the same cutaneous tumor is rare. No consensus has been reached for a clear definition and categorization. In the current study, we describe a cutaneous neoplasm; a squamomelanocytic tumor (SMT) with histological features combining those of a squamous cell carcinoma ...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Wang HY,Zhang XB,Su RJ,Wang CB,Liu X

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginsenoside Rg3 has been demonstrated to inhibit tumor cell proliferation and angiogenesis. However, its effect on liver tumors when administered via the hepatic artery has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic effect of hepatic artery administration of Rg3 combined with tran...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Yu Y,Zhang C,Liu L,Li X

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the removal of virus particles from B95-8 host cells that maintain normal activity under optimal osmotic pressure. After infecting B95-8 cells with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) particles, the cells were treated with isosmotic solution [0.90% NaCl (330 mOsm/kg H(2)O)], hyposmotic solutions [0.36% Na...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Pan M,Shen J,Cai J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cnidium officinale Makino and Capsella bursa-pastoris are used as traditional herbs with diverse medicinal effects, including the inhibition of inflammation, reduction of blood pressure and as diuretics, however, the anti-cancer effects of C. officinale Makino and C. bursa-pastoris are poorly defined. The aims of this...

journal_title：Experimental and therapeutic medicine

authors： Lee KE,Shin JA,Hong IS,Cho NP,Cho SD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00