Meta-Analysis of the Clinical Value of Danshen Injection and Huangqi Injection in Liver Cirrhosis

Objective. To evaluate the clinical value of Danshen injection and Huangqi injection for the treatment of liver cirrhosis. Methods. The Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Chinese Scientific Journals Full-Text Database (VIP), Wanfang Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), PubMed, and EMBASE database were searched to collect the literatures about the randomized controlled trials involving the treatment of liver cirrhosis with Danshen injection combined with Huangqi injection, and the data analyses were performed using RevMan 4.2 software. Results. A total of 11 studies involving 1086 patients (trials group: 554 cases, control group: 532 cases) were included in this study. Compared with those in control group, the meta-analysis showed-that the total effectiveness rate and the level of serum albumin increased, while serum total bilirubin, alanine transmninase, type III procollagen, hyaluronic acid, laminin, and type-IV collagen decreased in trials group. The Jadad score ranged from 1 to 2 and the funnel plot analysis suggests that publication bias may occur. Conclusions. Danshen injection combined with Huangqi injection may promote the curative efficacy of liver cirrhosis, which is a promising novel treatment approach. The exact outcome needs to perform rigorously designed, multicenter, and large randomized controlled trials

The Relationship between Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Human Papillomavirus: A Meta-Analysis of a Chinese Population (1994–2011)

Background: Previous studies indicated that oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) might be related to human papilloma virus (HPV) infection. However, up to now, there still lacks a large sample study to analyze the relationship between OSCC in a Chinese population and oral HPV infection. In the present study, we used a meta-analysis to evaluate the relationship of OSCC with HPV infection in a Chinese population. Methods: The reports on HPV and OSCC in a Chinese population published between January, 1994, and September, 2011 were retrieved via CNKI/WANFANG/OVID/MEDLINE databases. According to the inclusion criteria, we selected 18 eligible case-control studies. After testing the heterogeneity of the studies by the Cochran Q test, the meta-analyses for HPV and HPV16 were performed using the fixed effects model. Results: The overall positive rates of HPV and HPV16 in OSCC were 58.0 % (354/610; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 54.1–61.9) and 47.47 % (169/356; 95 % CI: 42.3–52.7), respectively; which were significantly higher than those in normal controls 10.44% (26/249; 95 % CI: 7.2–14.7) and 7.1 % (13/182; 95 % CI: 4.2–11.8). Quantitative meta-analysis revealed that, compared with normal controls, the combined odds ratios of OSCC with HPV or HPV16 infection were 12.7 (95 % CI: 8.0–20.0) and 9.0 (95% CI: 5.1–15.6), respectively. Both Begg’s test and funnel plots revealed that no publication bias was found in this present study (P.0.05)

Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Coupling of Indoles and 7-Azabenzonorbornadienes by C-H Activation/Desymmetrization

Chiral rhodium(III) cyclopentadienyl catalysts ((CpRhIII)-Rh-X) play significant roles in asymmetric arene C-H activation. Rh/Ir-catalyzed couplings of arenes and strained rings have been well-studied, but they have been limited to racemic systems. Reported in this work is the (CpRhIII)-Rh-x/AgSbF6-catalyzed enantioselective desymmetrizative C-C coupling of N-pyrimidylindoles and 7-azabenzonorbornadienes with high efficiency and enantioselectivity. The role of AgSbF6 has been established by mechanistic studies. AgSbF6 enhances the catalytic activity by suppressing the C3-H activation of the indoles, activation which would otherwise lead to catalytically inactive species

Rhodium(III)-catalyzed synthesis of indanones via C-H activation of phenacyl phosphoniums and coupling with olefins

Phosphonium ylide acts as an efficient bifunctional directing group in Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H activation of arenes and oxidative coupling with activated olefins, leading to facile construction of indanones via a sequence of oxidative olefination and carboannulation. The phosphonium moiety functions as an oxophilic group, and dephosphination triggers a nucleophilic cyclization

Iridium- and rhodium-catalyzed C-H activation and formyl arylation of benzaldehydes under chelation-assistance

Mild and efficient synthesis of benzophenones via Ir(III)- and Rh(III)catalyzed, directing group-assisted formyl C-H arylation of benzaldehydes has been achieved using diaryliodonium salts, in which Rh(III) and Ir(III) catalysts exhibited a complementary substrate scope

Rhodium(III)-catalyzed chemodivergent annulations between N-methoxybenzamides and sulfoxonium ylides via C-H activation

Chemodivergent and redox-neutral annulations between N-methoxybenzamides and sulfoxonium ylides have been realized via Rh(III)-catalyzed C-H activation. The sulfoxonium ylide acts as a carbene precursor, and coupling occurs under acid-controlled conditions, where Zn(OTf)(2) and PivOH promote chemodivergent cyclizations