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Pomegranate (punica granatum) belongs to the family Punicaceae, and its peel has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine because of its efficacy in restraining intestine, promoting hemostasis, and killing parasites. Pomegranate peel has been reported to possess wound-healing properties which are mainly attributed to its polyphenol extracts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of pomegranate peel polyphenols (PPP) gel on cutaneous wound healing in diabetic rats.Alloxan-induced diabetic rats were given incisional wounds on each side of the mid-back and then treated daily with PPP gel (polyphenol mass fraction = 30%) post-wounding. Rats were sacrificed on days 4, 7, 14, and 21 post-wounding to assess the rates of wound closure, histological characteristics; and to detect the contents of hydroxyproline, production of nitric oxide (NO), and activities of NO synthase (NOS), as well as the expressions of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and epidermal growth factor (EGF) in wound tissue.Wound closure was significantly shortened when PPP gel was applied to the wounds of diabetic rats. Histological examination showed the ability of PPP gel to increase fibroblast infiltration, collagen regeneration, vascularization, and epithelialization in the wound area of diabetic rats. In addition, PPP gel-treated diabetic rats showed increased contents of hydroxyproline, production of NO, and activities of NOS and increased expressions of TGF-β1, VEGF, and EGF in wound tissues.PPP gel may be a beneficial method for treating wound disorders associated with diabetes.

To observe the preventive function of cortex mori for peripheral nervous lesion at the early stage in diabetes rats, and probe into the mechanism of that formula.Set up the diabetes rat model evoked by alloxan. According to different blood sugar values, randomly divide the rats into normal group, model group, cortex mori(high dosage and low dosage) group and methylcobalamin control group, respectively administer the rats with saline and cortex mori of different dosages by ig (1.875 g/kg, 0.625 g/kg), while 300 microg/kg methylcobalamin for control group, one time each day. Two months after the administration, determine the FBG, body weight, SOD and MDA in blood serum of rats in each group, observe the changes on final product of glycosylation, CGMP and CAMP of sciatic nerve and the synapsin of rats' sciatic nerves. Conduct the pathological observation on area of myelin sheath, extramedullary fiber and the cross section of myelin sheath of sciatic nerves. And observe the changes of ultrafine form of sciatic nerve through transmission electron microscope. In the mean time, determine the MNCV, SNVC and SL, and the tail-flicking test should be undertaken for checking the sensory nerve.Cortex mori can effectively enlarge the area of myelin sheath, extramedullary fiber and the cross section of myelin sheath.Cortex mori can obviously ease up the pathological changes of peripheral nerve at the early stage of the diabetes rats, and the overall curative effect is better than that of methylcobalamin.

To investigate the measurement of free glutathione of both reduced or oxidized (i.e. GSH and GSSG) in plasma, and to evaluate the redox state of GGSH/GSSG in human plasma, both GSH and GSSG in plasma were measured by fluorophotometry based on the facts that one molar GSSG can be reduced to two molar GSH by dithiothreitol(DTT) under the condition of the pH being about 6.0, and GSH can provide both primary amine and thiol groups to react with the two carbonyl groups of O-phthaldehyde (OPA) to form a fluorescent ternary isoindole complex at pH 8.0. This method can at least measure 16 picomole GSH and 8 picomole GSSG respectively in the tube. The variation coefficient (CV) for intra-ssay and intera-ssay is about 4. 6% and 3.9% for GSH and 3.5% and 4.1% for GSSG respectively. The recovery of GSH and GSSG added to the plasma is (99.77% +/- 5.70)% and (99.28% +/- 4.73)% respectively. The concentration of GSH and GSSG in the plasma of young healthy volunteer is (16.5 +/- 2.4) nmol x mL(-1) and (1.7 +/- 0.35)nmol x mL(-1) respectively, without significant difference between male and female. This measurement method is simple with great sensitivity and selectivity for rapid measuring GSH and GSSG in human plasma simultaneously.

To set up a method of establishing the animal model of psychical erectile dysfunction with emotional stress.All thirty-six male rats with normal sexual function were divided into three groups, i. e. normal group, model group and demasculinized group randomly according to their weights. The rats in the model group were suspended upside down in midair over the water and irritated repeatedly. Two weeks later, the sexual abilities of all rats, i. e. the times of mounting and intromitting the estrus female rats, the latent period of mounting, intromission and ejaculation, were recorded, and the number of rats that had sexual activities was also counted. And the hemorheology indices of the rats were measured.Compared with the normal rats, the latency of mounting [(152.5 +/- 24.6) s vs (42.4 +/- 9.6) s] and intromission [(437.0 +/- 67.7) s vs (130.8 +/- 39.1) s] of the model rats were longer (P0.01), but the latency of ejaculation [(385.3 +/- 80.0) s vs (547.3 +/- 69.4) s] was shorter (P0.05) than that of the normal. There was no significant difference in the times of mounting between normal [(38.3 +/- 6.1) vices and model rats (38.5 +/- 5.4) vices], but the intromission times of model rats [(9.2 +/- 1.7) vices] was lower than that of the normal rats [(20.3 +/- 3.1) vices], P0.01. Compared with the normal rats, the sexual activity incidence of the model rats (mounting: 58.3%, intromission: 33.3%, ejaculation: 16.7%) was significant lower than that of the normal rats (100%) (P0.01). But there was no significant difference in the sexual ability between the model and the demasculinized rats (P0.05). The hemorheology indices, e. g. blood viscosity, hematocrit (Hct) and red cell aggregation (RCA), of the model rats was significant higher than that of the normal and demasculinized rats (P0.05), but there was no significant difference between the normal and demasculinized rats.The rat model of psychical erectile dysfunction can be made ideally with psychical stress.