Background. The effect of geomagnetism on human immunity has so far been studied through long-term observations. We set ourselves the goal detecting immediate immunotropic effects Earth's magnetic field by analyzing relationships between parameters and geomagnetic Ap-index. Material methods. object observation were 74 patients with multiple sclerosis 14 radiculopathies, who in period from Septe...

Les formes dites secondaires de purpura thrombopénique immunologique (PTI) représentent environ 20 % l’ensemble des cas PTI chez l’adulte et leur proportion augmente avec l’âge. Cela implique qu’un minimum d’examens complémentaires soient réalisés au diagnostic afin ne pas méconnaître une cause/affection sous-jacente susceptible d’influer sur le pronostic et/ou les modalités prise en charge thé...

Previous studies from our group, focusing on neuro-glial remodelling in human temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), have shown the presence of immature vascular cells in various areas of the hippocampus. Here, we investigated angiogenic processes in hippocampi surgically removed from adult patients suffering from chronic intractable TLE, with various aetiologies. We compared hippocampi from TLE patient...

The relationship between serum protein, immunoglobulin concentrations and protein molecular weight profile (PMWP) alterations of sea bass (131.3 ± 4.3 g) reared in sea water with sublethal concentrations of ammonia was studied over two periods totalling 116 days. During the exposure period (62 days) the first group (group 1) lived in sea water with 0.204 mg·L -1 unionized ammonia nitrogen equiv...

tis. This also has recently been proven for the administration of lactoferrin [ 13 ] and probiotics [ 8 ] . The adoption of a standardized nutritional regimen in very preterm neonates has further been shown to reduce above-mentioned complications [ 16 ] . Additionally, a decline of nosocomial infections was achieved through the implementation of programs for quality improvement through improved...

doi:10.1160/TH11-07-0474 Thromb Haemost 2012; 107: 590–591 Dear Sirs, Fechtner syndrome (1) is a rare autosomaldominant disorder characterised by thrombocytopenia, giant platelets and features of Alport syndrome, i.e. nephritis, cataract and sensorineural hearing loss. It is one entity of a group of giant platelet disorders caused by mutations of the MYH9 gene, encoding the heavy chain of nonmu...

Acquired autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) is an organ specific autoimmune disorder of the neuromuscular junction. In the majority of the patients (~85%) antibodies are directed to muscle postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR), but in others the target is non-AChRprotein at neuromuscular junction, such as Muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK), or low density lipoprotein ...