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Filter by:Respiratory viruses are known to be risk factors for asthma (e.g respiratory syncytial viruses, RSVs, and Human Rhinoviruses, HRVs, may induce bronchiolitis, and wheezing illnesses respectively). The common flu is also known to be a risk factor and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that asthmatics receive the annual flu vaccine, as a high-risk group for related asthma exacerbations. The investigators will be evaluating the variation in individual responses over time after controlled immune activation following influenza vaccination of monozygotic twins, both discordant for asthma, and concordant non-asthmatic. The transition from initial healthy to immune-system activated physiological states post vaccination will provide unprecedented molecular (omics) data on the molecular dynamics of immune response to vaccination, and novel insight into the flu response. The investigators will infer novel networks and pathways and as well as the dynamics of genes and mechanisms involved in asthma, flu vaccination, and individual responses, and correlate them to evaluated personalized genetic risks in the same study. The investigators will be able to also contrast the vaccination response in asthmatic and non-asthmatic individuals, in a longitudinal approach which has never been performed before using multiple-omics that included an immunization response.
Qishe Pill (Shanghai Sundise Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd, China), composed of processed Radix Astragali, Muscone, Szechuan Lovage Rhizome, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Ovientvine, and Calculus Bovis Artifactus, has been developed and spread in use into clinical settings in 2009. As individualization has become the trend of modern medicine, a personalized medicine of Qishe Pill should be documented and practiced with various patients according to the ancient TCM system, a classification of personalized constitution type, which has been established to determine predisposition and prognosis to diseases as well as therapy and life-style administration. Therefore, we describe the population pharmacokinetic profile of Qishe Pill and compare its extent of metabolism in the 3 major Constitution Type (Qi-Deficiency, Yin-Deficiency and Blood-Stasis) to address major challenges of individualized and standardized Traditional Chinese Medicine into clinical practice.
Because e-cigarettes do not contain or burn tobacco, they do not appear to deliver the known toxins found in conventional cigarette smoke.However e-Cigarettes with low dose of tobacco were found to have immediate adverse physiologic effects after short-term use that are similar to some of the effects seen with tobacco smoking. In this study we wanted to assess the short-time effect of one e-cigarette with no tobacco vs a "traditional" cigarette. 10 n-smoking subject and 10 actual smokers will be enrolled in the randomized trial.
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that provides a separate output pathway for neurological signals whereby they can be interpreted to determine the user's intended cognitive action. Utilizing EEG-based sensorimotor rhythms (SMRs) generated in the motor cortex has allowed subjects to control virtual computer cursors in up to three dimensions by simply imagining the movement of a specified body part. Nevertheless, the scalp EEG signals are smeared by the volume conduction effect and measurement noise. The overall hypothesis of this study is that EEG-based virtual object control may help reveal optimal motor imagination tasks best used in a BCI. The PI's hypotheses include: (1) The use of advanced signal processing techniques will better reveal characteristics of EEG signals that represent the underlying motor cognitive function of the subject; (2) BCI systems based on SMR generated using motor imaginations will allow effective control of a virtual object in real time; (3) EEG imaging techniques will provide insight into the areas of cortical activation during a motor imagery task that can be utilized to increase the spatial resolution of non-invasive BCI's.
This study was designed for exploring the association of cytochrome P450 3A4 rs2242480 polymorphism with metabolism of sufentanil in Chinese patients receiving upper abdominal surgery，to provide evidence for genetic prediction of personalized medication.Methods:60 patients who prepared for elective upper abdominal surgery under general anesthesia were recruited into study. Liver enzyme inhibitor should be excluded in anesthesia. rs2242480 genotyping was carried out by direct sequencing. The blood samples were drawn before anesthesia，30 min and 45min after anesthesia respectively，used for plasma sufentanil concentration detection with high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). After surgery，the patients received patient-controlled intravenous sufentanil immediately. And postoperative pain at rest，sufentanil consumption，side effects and rescue analgesic requirements were recorded at the 6th，12th，24th hour. The plasma sufentanil concentration and PCA sufentanil consumption were analyzed to investigate the differences among rs2242480 three genotypes.
This study aimed to find a quick and timely way to predict the individual variation of efficacy of opioid analgesic during the operation and postoperative analgesia in Chinese patients undergoing elective surgeries. Methods: 200 female patients receiving elective surgery under general anesthesia were recruited into this study. At the time of routine intravenous anesthetic induction we observe the efficacy of opioid analgesic including analgesic effect, effects on Narcotrend index, sedative effect, effects on respiratory system, and aslo effects on cardiovascular system. Then we record the consumption of of opioid analgesic during the operation and postoperative analgesia. Also we record the side effect of the opioid analgesic.
Purpose: This study aimed to find a quick and timely way to investigate the individual variation of efficacy of opioid analgesic in Chinese patients undergoing elective surgeries. Methods: 120 female patients receiving elective surgery under general anesthesia were recruited into this study. At the time of routine intravenous anesthetic induction we observe the efficacy of opioid analgesic including analgesic effect, effects on Narco-trend index, sedative effect, effects on respiratory system, and aslo effects on cardiovascular system.
The purpose of this study is to assess the determinants of immunologic variance within the general healthy population.