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Prasad M, Obana N, Lin SZ, Zhao S, Sakai K, Blanch-Mercader C, Prost J, Nomura N, Rupprecht JF, Fattaccioli J, Utada AS. Alcanivorax borkumensis biofilms enhance oil degradation by interfacial tubulation. Science 2023; 381:748-753. [PMID: 37590351 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf3345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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During the consumption of alkanes, Alcanivorax borkumensis will form a biofilm around an oil droplet, but the role this plays during degradation remains unclear. We identified a shift in biofilm morphology that depends on adaptation to oil consumption: Longer exposure leads to the appearance of dendritic biofilms optimized for oil consumption effected through tubulation of the interface. In situ microfluidic tracking enabled us to correlate tubulation to localized defects in the interfacial cell ordering. We demonstrate control over droplet deformation by using confinement to position defects, inducing dimpling in the droplets. We developed a model that elucidates biofilm morphology, linking tubulation to decreased interfacial tension and increased cell hydrophobicity.
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- M Prasad
- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- Transborder Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT (UMR 7332), Turing Centre for Living systems, Marseille, France
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Microfluidique, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie UMR168, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie UMR168, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, 117411 Singapore
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
- TARA center, Univeristy of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT (UMR 7332), Turing Centre for Living systems, Marseille, France
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- PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Microfluidique, 75005 Paris, France
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
- Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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Duclos G, Blanch-Mercader C, Yashunsky V, Salbreux G, Joanny JF, Prost J, Silberzan P. Author Correction: Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics. Nat Phys 2019; 15:868. [PMID: 31467586 PMCID: PMC6715445 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0544-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Van Cutsem E, Melichar B, Van den Eynde M, Prausova J, Geboes K, Dekervel J, Vitaskova D, De Cuyper A, Linke Z, Van Acker N, Frenois F, Noel G, Prost J, Barret J, Jean B, Tabah-Fisch I. Phase 2 study results of murlentamab, a monoclonal antibody targeting the Anti-Mullerian-Hormone-Receptor II (AMHRII), acting through Tumor-Associated Macrophage engagement in advanced/metastatic colorectal cancers. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz183.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Prost J, Wobrauschek P, Streli C. Dual energy-band excitation from a low power Rh anode X-ray tube for the simultaneous determination of low Z and high Z elements (Na-U) using total-reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis (TXRF). Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:093108. [PMID: 30278757 DOI: 10.1063/1.5044527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/25/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This article presents results from an experimental setup for a dual energy-band vacuum spectrometer for total-reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis allowing simultaneous efficient excitation of low, medium, and high Z elements. The spectrometer is equipped with an air-cooled 35 W low power Rh X-ray tube and a 17 mm2 silicon drift detector with a thin 8 µm beryllium window. A Pd/B4C multilayer monochromator is used at the same time as a Bragg reflector for Rh-Kα radiation and as a high-energy cut-off reflector above 5 keV, where the characteristic Rh-L radiation is totally reflected and present in the spectrum of the exciting radiation. This leaves one broad low energy band below 5 keV and one high energy band around the energy of Rh-Kα. As Rh-L radiation would be absorbed on its path through air, a new beam entrance system was designed in order to guide the Rh-L photons into the vacuum chamber for efficient excitation of low Z elements. With this setup, elements down to sodium (Z = 11, E = 1.04 keV) could be detected. First results are presented, and spectra obtained in air as well as in vacuum are compared and discussed. Detection limits in the range of 1000 µg/kg for Na and around 140 µg/kg for Mg were achieved using the NIST SRM 1640 (trace elements in water).
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- J Prost
- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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Duclos G, Blanch-Mercader C, Yashunsky V, Salbreux G, Joanny JF, Prost J, Silberzan P. Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics. Nat Phys 2018; 14:728-732. [PMID: 30079095 PMCID: PMC6071846 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0099-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In embryonic development or tumor evolution, cells often migrate collectively within confining tracks defined by their microenvironment 1,2. In some of these situations, the displacements within a cell strand are antiparallel 3, giving rise to shear flows. However, the mechanisms underlying these spontaneous flows remain poorly understood. Here, we show that an ensemble of spindle-shaped cells plated in a well-defined stripe spontaneously develop a shear flow whose characteristics depend on the width of the stripe. On wide stripes, the cells self-organize in a nematic phase with a director at a well-defined angle with the stripe's direction, and develop a shear flow close to the stripe's edges. However, on stripes narrower than a critical width, the cells perfectly align with the stripe's direction and the net flow vanishes. A hydrodynamic active gel theory provides an understanding of these observations and identifies the transition between the non-flowing phase oriented along the stripe and the tilted phase exhibiting shear flow as a Fréedericksz transition driven by the activity of the cells. This physical theory is grounded in the active nature of the cells and based on symmetries and conservation laws, providing a generic mechanism to interpret in vivo antiparallel cell displacements.
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- G. Duclos
- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
- ESPCI Paris, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
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- Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research
University - Sorbonne Universités, UPMC – CNRS. Equipe
labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer ; 75005, Paris, France
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We study stochastic dynamics of a point and extended inclusion within a one-dimensional confined active viscoelastic gel. We show that the dynamics of a point inclusion can be described by a Langevin equation with a confining potential and multiplicative noise. Using a systematic adiabatic elimination over the fast variables, we arrive at an overdamped equation with a proper definition of the multiplicative noise. To highlight various features and to appeal to different biological contexts, we treat the inclusion in turn as a rigid extended element, an elastic element, and a viscoelastic (Kelvin-Voigt) element. The dynamics for the shape and position of the extended inclusion can be described by coupled Langevin equations. Deriving exact expressions for the corresponding steady-state probability distributions, we find that the active noise induces an attraction to the edges of the confining domain. In the presence of a competing centering force, we find that the shape of the probability distribution exhibits a sharp transition upon varying the amplitude of the active noise. Our results could help understanding the positioning and deformability of biological inclusions, e.g., organelles in cells, or nucleus and cells within tissues.
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- Amit Singh Vishen
- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117411, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117411, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117411, Singapore.,Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR168, 75005 Paris, France
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560065, India
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Rupprecht JF, Singh Vishen A, Shivashankar GV, Rao M, Prost J. Maximal Fluctuations of Confined Actomyosin Gels: Dynamics of the Cell Nucleus. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:098001. [PMID: 29547335 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.098001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2017] [Revised: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We investigate the effect of stress fluctuations on the stochastic dynamics of an inclusion embedded in a viscous gel. We show that, in nonequilibrium systems, stress fluctuations give rise to an effective attraction towards the boundaries of the confining domain, which is reminiscent of an active Casimir effect. We apply this generic result to the dynamics of deformations of the cell nucleus, and we demonstrate the appearance of a fluctuation maximum at a critical level of activity, in agreement with recent experiments [E. Makhija, D. S. Jokhun, and G. V. Shivashankar, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, E32 (2016)PNASA60027-842410.1073/pnas.1513189113].
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- J-F Rupprecht
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, 5A Engineering Drive 1, 117411 Singapore, Singapore
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, 5A Engineering Drive 1, 117411 Singapore, Singapore
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, 5A Engineering Drive 1, 117411 Singapore, Singapore
- Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR168, 75005 Paris, France
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Rupprecht JF, Tlili S, Yin J, Prost J, Saunders T. On the Growth and Form of the Zebrafish Myotome. Mech Dev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2017.04.516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dolega ME, Delarue M, Ingremeau F, Prost J, Delon A, Cappello G. Cell-like pressure sensors reveal increase of mechanical stress towards the core of multicellular spheroids under compression. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14056. [PMID: 28128198 PMCID: PMC5290143 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The surrounding microenvironment limits tumour expansion, imposing a compressive stress on the tumour, but little is known how pressure propagates inside the tumour. Here we present non-destructive cell-like microsensors to locally quantify mechanical stress distribution in three-dimensional tissue. Our sensors are polyacrylamide microbeads of well-defined elasticity, size and surface coating to enable internalization within the cellular environment. By isotropically compressing multicellular spheroids (MCS), which are spherical aggregates of cells mimicking a tumour, we show that the pressure is transmitted in a non-trivial manner inside the MCS, with a pressure rise towards the core. This observed pressure profile is explained by the anisotropic arrangement of cells and our results suggest that such anisotropy alone is sufficient to explain the pressure rise inside MCS composed of a single cell type. Furthermore, such pressure distribution suggests a direct link between increased mechanical stress and previously observed lack of proliferation within the spheroids core.
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- M. E. Dolega
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Curie, CNRS, Université P. et M. Curie, UMR168, F-75231 Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Curie, CNRS, Université P. et M. Curie, UMR168, F-75231 Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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Rauwolf M, Turyanskaya A, Roschger A, Prost J, Simon R, Scharf O, Radtke M, Schoonjans T, Guilherme Buzanich A, Klaushofer K, Wobrauschek P, Hofstaetter JG, Roschger P, Streli C. Synchrotron radiation micro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of thin structures in bone samples: comparison of confocal and color X-ray camera setups. J Synchrotron Radiat 2017; 24:307-311. [PMID: 28009572 PMCID: PMC5182026 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577516017057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In the quest for finding the ideal synchrotron-radiation-induced imaging method for the investigation of trace element distributions in human bone samples, experiments were performed using both a scanning confocal synchrotron radiation micro X-ray fluorescence (SR-µXRF) (FLUO beamline at ANKA) setup and a full-field color X-ray camera (BAMline at BESSY-II) setup. As zinc is a trace element of special interest in bone, the setups were optimized for its detection. The setups were compared with respect to count rate, required measurement time and spatial resolution. It was demonstrated that the ideal method depends on the element of interest. Although for Ca (a major constituent of the bone with a low energy of 3.69 keV for its Kα XRF line) the color X-ray camera provided a higher resolution in the plane, for Zn (a trace element in bone) only the confocal SR-µXRF setup was able to sufficiently image the distribution.
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/KIT, Institute for Synchrotron Radiation, ANKA, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IFG Institute of Scientific Instruments GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung, Berlin, Germany
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, Vienna, Austria
- Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology at the Hanusch Hospital of WGKK and AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling, Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Blanco S, schwemler M, Roca L, Vas C, Ezquiaga A, Nieto G, Garcia A, Prost J. N200 non target responses in cognitive decline. J Neurol Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.09.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wobrauschek P, Prost J, Ingerle D, Kregsamer P, Misra NL, Streli C. A novel vacuum spectrometer for total reflection x-ray fluorescence analysis with two exchangeable low power x-ray sources for the analysis of low, medium, and high Z elements in sequence. Rev Sci Instrum 2015; 86:083105. [PMID: 26329172 DOI: 10.1063/1.4928499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The extension of the detectable elemental range with Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF) analysis is a challenging task. In this paper, it is demonstrated how a TXRF spectrometer is modified to analyze elements from carbon to uranium. Based on the existing design of a vacuum TXRF spectrometer with a 12 specimen sample changer, the following components were renewed: the silicon drift detector with 20 mm(2) active area and having a special ultra-thin polymer window allowing the detection of elements from carbon upwards. Two exchangeable X-ray sources guarantee the efficient excitation of both low and high Z elements. These X-ray sources were two light-weighted easily mountable 35 W air-cooled low-power tubes with Cr and Rh anodes, respectively. The air cooled tubes and the Peltier-cooled detector allowed to construct a transportable tabletop spectrometer with compact dimensions, as neither liquid nitrogen cooling for the detector nor a water cooling circuit and a bulky high voltage generator for the X-ray tubes are required. Due to the excellent background conditions as a result of the TXRF geometry, detection limits of 150 ng for C, 12 ng for F, and 3.3 ng for Na have been obtained using Cr excitation in vacuum. For Rh excitation, the detection limits of 90 pg could be achieved for Sr. Taking 10 to 20 μl of sample volume, extrapolated detection limits in the ng/g (ppb) range are resulting in terms of concentration.
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- P Wobrauschek
- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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- Fuel Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai 400085, India
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- Atominstitut, TU Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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Nemati F, Barret JM, Massonnet G, Bougherara H, Nicolas A, Martel E, Donnadieu E, Prost J, Decaudin D. In vivo synergism between chemotherapy and the 3C23K monoclonal antibody targeting the AMH-type II receptor in ovarian cancer PDX models. Ann Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv093.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The regulation of cell growth in animal tissues is a question of critical importance: most tissues contain different types of cells in interconversion and the fraction of each type has to be controlled in a precise way, by mechanisms that remain unclear. Here, we provide a theoretical framework for the homeostasis of stem-cell-containing epithelial tissues using mechanical equations, which describe the size of the tissue and kinetic equations, which describe the interconversions of the cell populations. We show that several features, such as the evolution of stem cell fractions during intestinal development, the shape of a developing intestinal wall, as well as the increase in the proliferative compartment in cancer initiation, can be studied and understood from generic modelling which does not rely on a particular regulatory mechanism. Finally, inspired by recent experiments, we propose a model where cell division rates are regulated by the mechanical stresses in the epithelial sheet. We show that pressure-controlled growth can, in addition to the previous features, also explain with few parameters the formation of stem cell compartments as well as the morphologies observed when a colonic crypt becomes cancerous. We also discuss optimal strategies of wound healing, in connection with experiments on the cornea.
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- E Hannezo
- Physicochimie Curie (Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR168/UPMC), Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, , 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Joanny JF, Kruse K, Prost J, Ramaswamy S. The actin cortex as an active wetting layer. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2013; 36:52. [PMID: 23703695 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13052-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2013] [Accepted: 04/19/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Using active gel theory we study theoretically the properties of the cortical actin layer of animal cells. The cortical layer is described as a non-equilibrium wetting film on the cell membrane. The actin density is approximately constant in the layer and jumps to zero at its edge. The layer thickness is determined by the ratio of the polymerization velocity and the depolymerization rate of actin.
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- J-F Joanny
- Physico Chimie Curie (Institut Curie, Cnrs UMR 168, UPMC), Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248, Paris Cedex 05, France
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Dinis L, Martin P, Barral J, Prost J, Joanny JF. Fluctuation-response theorem for the active noisy oscillator of the hair-cell bundle. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:160602. [PMID: 23215065 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.160602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The hair bundle of sensory cells in the vertebrate ear provides an example of a noisy oscillator close to a Hopf bifurcation. The analysis of the data from both spontaneous and forced oscillations shows a strong violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, revealing the presence of an underlying active process that keeps the system out of equilibrium. Nevertheless, we show that a generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem, valid for nonequilibrium steady states, is fulfilled within the limits of our experimental accuracy and computational approximations, when the adequate conjugate degrees of freedom are chosen.
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- L Dinis
- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, CNRS, Institut Curie, UPMC, 26 rue d'Ulm, F-75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Animal tissues are complex assemblies of cells, extracellular matrix (ECM), and permeating interstitial fluid. Whereas key aspects of the multicellular dynamics can be captured by a one-component continuum description, cell division and apoptosis imply material turnover between different components that can lead to additional mechanical conditions on the tissue dynamics. We extend our previous description of tissues in order to account for a cell/ECM phase and the permeating interstitial fluid independently. In line with our earlier work, we consider the cell/ECM phase to behave as an elastic solid in the absence of cell division and apoptosis. In addition, we consider the interstitial fluid as ideal on the relevant length scales, i.e., we ignore viscous stresses in the interstitial fluid. Friction between the fluid and the cell/ECM phase leads to a Darcy-like relation for the interstitial fluid velocity and introduces a new characteristic length scale. We discuss the dynamics of a tissue confined in a chamber with a permeable piston close to the homeostatic state where cell division and apoptosis balance, and we calculate the rescaled effective diffusion coefficient for cells. For different mass densities of the cell/ECM component and the interstitial fluid, a treadmilling steady state due to gravitational forces can be found.
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- J Ranft
- Institut Curie (UMR 168: Institut Curie, CNRS, Université Paris VI), Paris, France
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Guérin T, Prost J, Joanny JF. Bidirectional motion of motor assemblies and the weak-noise escape problem. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2011; 84:041901. [PMID: 22181169 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.041901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We present a detailed calculation that enables us to estimate the reversal time of a molecular motor assembly that displays bidirectional motion in the limit of weak noise. We derive a Fokker-Planck equation by taking a large volume expansion of a master equation, and we consider a simple choice of transition rates that enables us to reduce the number of variables to 2. We use the Wentzell-Freidlin theory to define an effective nonequilibrium potential and analytically estimate the reversal time. We also present the results of stochastic simulations that match very well our simulation results.
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- T Guérin
- Physicochimie Curie (Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR168/UPMC), Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm F-75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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We study theoretically the shapes of a dividing epithelial monolayer of cells lying on top of an elastic stroma. The negative tension created by cell division provokes a buckling instability at a finite wave vector leading to the formation of periodic arrays of villi and crypts. The instability is similar to the buckling of a metallic plate under compression. We use the results to rationalize the various structures of the intestinal lining observed in vivo. Taking into account the coupling between cell division and local curvature, we obtain different patterns of villi and crypts, which could explain the different morphologies of the small intestine and the colon.
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- E Hannezo
- Physicochimie Curie, Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR/UPMC, Paris, France
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Guérin T, Prost J, Joanny JF. Dynamical behavior of molecular motor assemblies in the rigid and crossbridge models. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2011; 34:60. [PMID: 21706282 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2011-11060-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We present a detailed analysis of the dynamical instabilities appearing in two kinetic theories for the collective behavior of molecular motors: the rigid two-state model and the two-state crossbridge (or power-stroke) model with continuous binding sites. We calculate force-velocity relations, discuss their stability, plot a diagram that summarizes the oscillation regimes, identify the location of the Hopf bifurcation with a memory effect, discuss the oscillation frequency and make a link with single-molecule experiments. We show that the instabilities present in these models naturally translate into non-linearities in force-displacement relations, and at linear order give forces that are similar to the delayed stretch activation observed in oscillating muscles. We also find that instabilities can appear for both apparent load-decelerated and load-accelerated detachment rates in a 3-state crossbridge model.
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- T Guérin
- Physicochimie Curie (Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR168/UPMC), Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris Cedex, France,
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Bidirectional motion is an example of collective behavior of molecular motors. It occurs at finite noise level in a nonequilibrium system. We consider this problem as a first exit problem. We identify the noise strength by doing an expansion of a master equation and apply the Wentzell-Freidlin theory to define an effective nonequilibrium potential and provide analytical estimates of the reversal time. Our results match very well with the results of stochastic simulations.
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- T Guérin
- Physicochimie Curie, Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR168/UPMC, Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm 75248 Paris Cedex 05 France
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Stress fibers are contractile actomyosin bundles commonly observed in the cytoskeleton of metazoan cells. The spatial profile of the polarity of actin filaments inside contractile actomyosin bundles is either monotonic (graded) or periodic (alternating). In the framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics, we write the constitutive equations for a polar, active, elastic one-dimensional medium. An analysis of the resulting equations for the dynamics of polarity shows that the transition from graded to alternating polarity patterns is a nonequilibrium Lifshitz point. Active contractility is a necessary condition for the emergence of sarcomeric, alternating polarity patterns.
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- N Yoshinaga
- Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue dUlm, F-75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Bouderbala S, Prost J, Lacaille-Dubois MA, Bouchenak M. Iridoid extracts from Ajuga iva increase the antioxidant enzyme activities in red blood cells of rats fed a cholesterol-rich diet. Nutr Res 2010; 30:358-65. [PMID: 20579528 DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2010.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2010] [Revised: 04/23/2010] [Accepted: 05/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The lyophilized aqueous extract of Ajuga iva (Ai) is able to reduce oxidative stress, which may prevent lipid peroxidation in hypercholesterolemic rats. Iridoids (I) were isolated from Ai. We hypothesized that the antioxidant defense status in red blood cells (RBC) and tissues in rats fed a cholesterol-rich diet and treated with Ai may be correlated to these compounds. Male Wistar rats (n = 32) weighing 120 +/- 5 g were fed a diet containing 1% cholesterol for 15 days. After this phase, hypercholesterolemic (HC) rats were divided into groups, fed the same diet, and received either the same or different doses (5, 10, or 15 mg/kg body weight by intraperitoneal injection) of I for 15 days. Compared with the HC group, total cholesterol value was 1.4- and 1.2-fold lower in the I(5)-HC and I(10)-HC groups. Serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substance content was 2.3-, 2.9-, and 3-fold lower in the I(5)-HC, I(10)-HC, and I(15)-HC groups compared with the HC group. In RBC, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, and superoxide dismutase activities were significantly higher in the I(5)-HC, I(10)-HC, and I(15)-HC groups than the HC group. Liver, heart, and muscle glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activities were significantly higher in the groups treated with I than the HC group. Muscle glutathione reductase activity was increased 1.4-fold in the I(5)-HC, 1.5-fold in the I(10)-HC, and 1.5-fold in the I(15)-HC group. In HC rats, different doses of I increase the antioxidant enzyme activities in RBC and act differently in tissues. Treatment with I may play an important role in suppressing oxidative stress caused by dietary cholesterol and, thus, may be useful for the prevention and/or early treatment of hypercholesterolemia.
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- Sherazede Bouderbala
- Laboratoire de Nutrition Clinique et Métabolique, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran Es-Sénia, 31000 Oran, Algeria.
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We propose a two-state "soft-motor" model for the collective behavior of molecular motors which takes into account both the internal motor stiffness and the periodic interaction with the filament. As in the Prandtl-Tomlinson model of tribology, the important parameter of the model is the pinning parameter, which compares the stiffness of the motors to the stiffness of the potential. The model predicts dynamic instabilities in two disconnected regions of parameter space. These parameter ranges correspond to two existing theories of motor assemblies, the rigid two-state model and the crossbridge model. The model also predicts a discontinuity of the slope of the force-velocity relation at small velocities.
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- T Guérin
- Physicochimie Curie (Institut Curie/CNRS-UMR168/UPMC), Section de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Prost J, Joanny JF, Parrondo JMR. Generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem for steady-state systems. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 103:090601. [PMID: 19792774 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.090601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2009] [Revised: 03/13/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central result of statistical physics, which applies to any system at thermodynamic equilibrium. Its violation is a strong signature of nonequilibrium behavior. We show that for any system with Markovian dynamics, in a nonequilibrium steady state, a proper choice of observables restores a fluctuation-response theorem identical to a suitable version of the equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation theorem. This theorem applies to a broad class of dynamical systems. We illustrate it with linear stochastic dynamics and examples borrowed from the physics of molecular motors and Hopf bifurcations. Finally, we discuss general implications of the theorem.
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- J Prost
- Physicochimie Curie (CNRS-UMR168), Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm ,75248 Paris, Cedex 05, France
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Mekki K, Prost J, Remaoun M, Belleville J, Bouchenak M. Long term hemodialysis aggravates lipolytic activity reduction and very low density, low density lipoproteins composition in chronic renal failure patients. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2009; 9:41. [PMID: 19709414 PMCID: PMC2743644 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-9-41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2009] [Accepted: 08/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Dyslipidemia, particularly hypertriglyceridemia is common in uremia, and represents an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis. METHODS To investigate the effects of hemodialysis (HD) duration on very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) compositions and lipopolytic activities, 20 patients on 5 to 7 years hemodialysis were followed-up during 9 years. Blood samples were drawn at T0 (beginning of the study), T1 (3 years after initiating study), T2 (6 years after initiating study) and T3 (9 years after initiating study). T0 was taken as reference. RESULTS Triacylglycerols (TG) values were correlated with HD duration (r = 0.70, P < 0.05). An increase of total cholesterol was noted at T2 and T3. Lowered activity was observed for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) (-44%) at T3 and hepatic lipase (HL) (-29%) at T1, (-64%) at T2 and (-73%) at T3. Inverse relationships were found between HD duration and LPL activity (r = -0.63, P < 0.05), and HL activity (r = -0.71, P < 0.01). At T1, T2 and T3, high VLDL-amounts and VLDL-TG and decreased VLDL-phospholipids values were noted. Increased LDL-cholesteryl esters values were noted at T1 and T2 and in LDL-unesterified cholesterol at T2 and T3. CONCLUSION Despite hemodialysis duration, VLDL-LDL metabolism alterations are aggravated submitting patients to a greater risk of atherosclerosis.
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- Khedidja Mekki
- Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran-31100 Es-Sénia, Algerie.
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Jülicher F, Dierkes K, Lindner B, Prost J, Martin P. Spontaneous movements and linear response of a noisy oscillator. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2009; 29:449-460. [PMID: 19701785 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2009-10487-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2009] [Revised: 05/26/2009] [Accepted: 07/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A deterministic system that operates in the vicinity of a Hopf bifurcation can be described by a single equation of a complex variable, called the normal form. Proximity to the bifurcation ensures that on the stable side of the bifurcation (i.e. on the side where a stable fixed point exists), the linear-response function of the system is peaked at the frequency that is characteristic of the oscillatory instability. Fluctuations, which are present in many systems, conceal the Hopf bifurcation and lead to noisy oscillations. Spontaneous hair bundle oscillations by sensory hair cells from the vertebrate ear provide an instructive example of such noisy oscillations. By starting from a simplified description of hair bundle motility based on two degrees of freedom, we discuss the interplay of nonlinearity and noise in the supercritical Hopf normal form. Specifically, we show here that the linear-response function obeys the same functional form as for the noiseless system on the stable side of the bifurcation but with effective, renormalized parameters. Moreover, we demonstrate in specific cases how to relate analytically the parameters of the normal form with added noise to effective parameters. The latter parameters can be measured experimentally in the power spectrum of spontaneous activity and linear-response function to external stimuli. In other cases, numerical solutions were used to determine the effects of noise and nonlinearities on these effective parameters. Finally, we relate our results to experimentally observed spontaneous hair bundle oscillations and responses to periodic stimuli.
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- F Jülicher
- Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany
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We propose a mechanism for the formation of contractile rings and the apparition of a flow in the cortical layer of cells undergoing cytokinesis at the end of cell division or during the healing of a wound in the cortex of Xenopus eggs. We generalize the hydrodynamic active gel theory along the lines of thin shell theory of continuum elasticity to describe the cell cortex. As in liquid crystal physics, the flow couples to the orientation of the actin filaments. The cortical flow is driven by an increased density of myosin motors in the cortex, and orients the filaments to form the ring.
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- G Salbreux
- Physicochimie Curie (CNRS-UMR168), Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Taleb-Senouci D, Ghomari H, Krouf D, Bouderbala S, Prost J, Lacaille-Dubois MA, Bouchenak M. Antioxidant effect of Ajuga iva aqueous extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Phytomedicine 2009; 16:623-631. [PMID: 19196501 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2008.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible antioxidant effect of an aqueous extract of Ajuga iva (Ai) in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. Twelve diabetic rats were divided into two groups fed a casein diet supplemented or not with Ai (0.5%), for 4 weeks. In vitro, the Ai extract possessed a very high antioxidant effect (1 mg/ml was similar to those of trolox 300 mmol/l). The results indicated that plasma thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) values were reduced by 41% in Ai-treated compared with untreated diabetic rats. TBARS concentrations were lower 1.5-fold in liver, 1.8-fold in heart, 1.9-fold in muscle and 2.1-fold in brain in Ai-treated than untreated group. In erythrocytes, Ai treatment increased significantly the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) (+25%) and glutathione reductase (GSSH-Red) (+22%). Superoxide dismutase activity was increased in muscle (+22%), while GSH-Px activity was significantly higher in liver (+28%), heart (+40%) and kidney (+45%) in Ai-treated compared with untreated group. Liver and muscle GSSH-Red activity was, respectively, 1.6- and 1.5-fold higher in Ai-treated than untreated diabetic group. Catalase activity was significantly increased in heart (+36%) and brain (+32%) in Ai-treated than untreated group. Ai treatment decreased plasma nitric oxide (-33%), carbonyls (-44%) and carotenoids (-68%) concentrations. In conclusion, this study indicates that Ajuga iva aqueous extract improves the antioxidant status by reducing lipid peroxidation and enhancing the antioxidant enzymes activities in plasma, erythrocytes and tissues of diabetic rats.
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- D Taleb-Senouci
- Laboratoire de Nutrition Clinique et Métabolique, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran Es Sénia, 31000 Oran, Algeria
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We discuss the motion of colloidal particles relative to a two-component fluid consisting of solvent and solute. Particle motion can result from i) net body forces on the particle due to external fields such as gravity; ii) slip velocities on the particle surface due to surface dissipative phenomena. The perturbations of the hydrodynamic flow field exhibit characteristic differences in cases i) and ii) which reflect different patterns of momentum flux corresponding to the existence of net forces, force dipoles or force quadrupoles. In the absence of external fields, gradients of concentration or pressure do not generate net forces on a colloidal particle. Such gradients can nevertheless induce relative motion between particle and fluid. We present a generic description of surface dissipative phenomena based on the linear response of surface fluxes driven by conjugate surface forces. In this framework we discuss different transport scenarios including self-propulsion via surface slip that is induced by active processes on the particle surface. We clarify the nature of force balances in such situations.
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- F Jülicher
- Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzerstr. 38, 01187, Dresden, Germany.
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Hawkins RJ, Piel M, Faure-Andre G, Lennon-Dumenil AM, Joanny JF, Prost J, Voituriez R. Pushing off the walls: a mechanism of cell motility in confinement. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 102:058103. [PMID: 19257561 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.058103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2008] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We propose a novel mechanism of cell motility, which relies on the coupling of actin polymerization at the cell membrane to geometric confinement. We consider a polymerizing viscoelastic cytoskeletal gel confined in a narrow channel, and show analytically that spontaneous motion occurs. Interestingly, this does not require specific adhesion with the channel walls, and yields velocities potentially larger than the polymerization velocity. The contractile activity of myosin motors is not necessary to trigger motility in this mechanism, but is shown quantitatively to increase the velocity. Our model qualitatively accounts for recent experiments which show that cells without specific adhesion proteins are motile only in confined environments while they are unable to move on a flat surface, and could help in understanding the mechanisms of cell migration in more complex confined geometries such as living tissues.
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- R J Hawkins
- UMR 7600, Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, 4 Place Jussieu, 75255 Paris Cedex 05 France
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El Alaoui Faris MD, Lacoste D, Pécréaux J, Joanny JF, Prost J, Bassereau P. Membrane tension lowering induced by protein activity. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 102:038102. [PMID: 19257398 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.038102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Using videomicroscopy we present measurements of the fluctuation spectrum of giant vesicles containing bacteriorhodopsin pumps. When the pumps are activated, we observe a significant increase of the fluctuations in the low wave vector region, which we interpret as due to a lowering of the effective tension of the membrane.
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- M D El Alaoui Faris
- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche; CNRS, UMR 168; Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, F-75248 France
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Basu A, Joanny JF, Jülicher F, Prost J. Thermal and non-thermal fluctuations in active polar gels. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2008; 27:149-160. [PMID: 18791871 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2008-10364-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2008] [Accepted: 07/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We discuss general features of noise and fluctuations in active polar gels close to and away from equilibrium. We use the single-component hydrodynamic theory of active polar gels built by Kruse and coworkers to describe the cytoskeleton in cells. Close to equilibrium, we calculate the response function of the gel to external fields and introduce Langevin forces in the constitutive equations with correlation functions respecting the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We then discuss the breakage of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem due to an external field such as the activity of the motors. Active gels away from equilibrium are considered at the scaling level. As an example of application of the theory, we calculate the density correlation function (the dynamic structure factor) of a compressible active polar gel and discuss possible instabilities.
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- A Basu
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division and Centre for Advanced Research and Education, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, 700 064, Kolkata (Calcutta), India
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We present a novel flow instability that can arise in thin films of cytoskeletal fluids if the friction with the substrate on which the film lies is sufficiently strong. We consider a two-dimensional, membrane-bound fragment containing actin filaments that polymerize at the edge and depolymerize in the fragment. Performing a linear stability analysis of the initial state due to perturbations of the fragment boundary, we find, in the limit of large friction, that the perturbed actin velocity and pressure fields obey the same laws governing the viscous fingering instability of an interface between immiscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell. A remarkable feature of this instability is that it is independent of the strength of the interaction between actin filaments and myosin motors.
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- A C Callan-Jones
- Physicochimie Curie (CNRS-UMR168), Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm 75248 Paris Cedex 05 France
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Bouderbala S, Lamri-Senhadji M, Prost J, Lacaille-Dubois MA, Bouchenak M. Changes in antioxidant defense status in hypercholesterolemic rats treated with Ajuga iva. Phytomedicine 2008; 15:453-461. [PMID: 18068964 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2007.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of aqueous extract of Ajuga iva (Ai) on serum and tissues lipid peroxidation as well as antioxidant enzymes activities in red blood cells (RBC) and tissues, in high hypercholesterolemic rats (HC). Male Wistar rats (n=12) were fed on 1% cholesterol-enriched diet for 15d. After this adaptation phase, hypercholesterolemic rats (total cholesterol=6.5+/-0.6mol/l) were divided into two groups fed the same diet and treated or not with Ai for 15d. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) concentrations in serum, LDL-HDL(1), HDL(2) and HDL(3) were respectively, 5-, 7.8-, 2.3- and 5-fold lower in Ai treated than untreated hypercholesterolemic groups. TBARS concentrations were 1.4-fold lower in heart and 2.8-fold higher in kidney in Ai-HC treated than untreated HC group. Superoxide dismutase activity was respectively, 1.2- and 1.4-fold higher in RBC and muscle in Ai treated than untreated group. In RBC, Ajuga iva treatment enhanced glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) (+9%) and glutathione reductase (GSSH-Red) (+12%) in Ai-HC treated than untreated HC group. GSSH-Red activity was 1.4- and 1.5-fold higher in adipose tissue and heart, respectively and 3.7-fold lower in kidney in Ai treated than untreated group. Liver catalase activity was 1.6-fold higher in Ai treated than untreated group. Adipose tissue and muscle total glutathione content represented in Ai treated group 35% and 36% of the value noted in untreated group. Nitric oxide values of liver, adipose tissue and heart were 3.3-, 2.5- and 3.4-fold higher in Ai-HC than HC group. Ajuga iva treatment enhanced alpha-tocopherol contents (+25%) in Ai treated than untreated group. In conclusion, Ajuga iva treatment is more effective to improve the antioxidant capacity of RBC than that of tissues. Indeed, Ai is able to reduce the oxidative stress in hypercholesterolemic rats by increasing the antioxidant enzymes activity.
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- S Bouderbala
- Laboratoire de Nutrition Clinique et Métabolique, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran Es-Sénia, 31000 Oran, Algeria
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Krouf D, Cherrad A, Prost J, Bouchenak M. CHANGES OF PLASMA THIOBARBITURIC REACTIVE ACID SUBSTANCES AND LIPOPROTEINS FATTY ACIDS COMPOSITION IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPP 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1567-5688(08)70219-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Loukidi-Bouchenak B, Lamri-Senhadji MY, Merzouk S, Merzouk H, Belarbi B, Prost J, Belleville J, Bouchenak M. Serum lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase activity, HDL2 and HDL3 composition in hypertensive mothers and their small for gestational age newborns. Eur J Pediatr 2008; 167:525-32. [PMID: 17605041 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-007-0545-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2007] [Accepted: 06/07/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The aim of this study was to determine serum lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) activity in parallel with HDL2 and HDL3 amounts and composition in pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) and chronic hypertensive (CH) mothers and in their small for gestational age (SGA) newborns. LCAT activity was assayed by conversion of [3H] cholesterol to labelled cholesteryl ester. HDL2 and HDL3 were separated by ultracentrifugation. At term, cholesterol values were similar in PIH, CH and controls. However, higher levels of triglycerides were observed in PIH and CH (+20% and +21%, respectively) as compared with normotensive control mothers (NC). HDL2 and HDL3-phospholipids, HDL2-cholesterol concentrations and LCAT activity were lower in PIH and CH mothers than in NC mothers. Similar changes were also observed in SGA newborns of PHI mothers and in SGA newborns of CH mothers when compared to appropriate for gestational age newborns of control mothers (AGA-NC). In addition, SGA newborns showed low HDL2 and HDL3 apoA-I contents. Maternal hypertension and foetal intrauterine growth retardation are associated with profound abnormalities in HDL metabolism, consistent with an atherogenic risk. SGA lipoprotein profiles appear to implicate later metabolic diseases.
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- B Loukidi-Bouchenak
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Animale et Biochimie,Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria
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Soulimane-Mokhtari NA, Guermouche B, Saker M, Merzouk S, Merzouk H, Hichami A, Madani S, Khan NA, Prost J. Serum lipoprotein composition, lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase and tissue lipase activities in pregnant diabetic rats and their offspring receiving enriched n-3 PUFA diet. Gen Physiol Biophys 2008; 27:3-11. [PMID: 18436977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The effects of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on lipoprotein concentrations and on lipoprotein lipase (LPL), hepatic triglyceride lipase (HTGL) and lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) activities were studied in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats during pregnancy and in their macrosomic offspring from birth to adulthood. Pregnant diabetic and control rats were fed Isio-4 diet (vegetable oil) or EPAX diet (concentrated marine omega-3 EPA/DHA oil), the same diets were consumed by pups at weaning. Compared with control rats, diabetic rats showed, during pregnancy, a significant elevation in very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and low and high density lipoprotein (LDL-HDL(1))-triglyceride, cholesterol and apoprotein B100 concentrations and a reduction in apoprotein A-I levels. HTGL activity was high while LPL and LCAT activities were low in these rats. The macrosomic pups of Isio-4-fed diabetic rats showed a significant enhancement in triglyceride and cholesterol levels at birth and during adulthood with a concomitant increase in lipase and LCAT activities. EPAX diet induces a significant diminution of VLDL and LDL-HDL(1) in mothers and in their macrosomic pups, accompanied by an increase in cholesterol and apoprotein A-I levels in HDL(2-3) fraction. It also restores LPL, HTGL and LCAT activities to normal range. EPAX diet ameliorates considerably lipoprotein disorders in diabetic mothers and in their macrosomic offspring.
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- N A Soulimane-Mokhtari
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Animale et Biochimie, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tlemcen, Algérie.
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Zumdieck A, Voituriez R, Prost J, Joanny JF. Spontaneous flow of active polar gels in undulated channels. Faraday Discuss 2008; 139:369-75; discussion 399-417, 419-20. [DOI: 10.1039/b716934e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Eraud C, Devevey G, Gaillard M, Prost J, Sorci G, Faivre B. Environmental stress affects the expression of a carotenoid-based sexual trait in male zebra finches. J Exp Biol 2007; 210:3571-8. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.005496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Abiotic factors including thermal stress are suggested to exert constrains on sexual ornaments through trade-offs between sexual displays and physiological functions related to self-maintenance. Given the health properties of carotenoid pigments, carotenoid-based ornaments offer a relevant context in which to investigate the effect of environmental stress, such as ambient temperature, on the production and maintenance of secondary sexual traits and, also, to explore the proximate mechanisms shaping their expression. In this study, we exposed male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) to environmental stress by exposing them to two temperature regimes (6 and 26°C) over a 4 week period. Simultaneously, half of the males in each temperature group were supplemented with carotenoids, whereas the other half were not. The expression of a carotenoid-based sexual trait(bill colour) and the amount of circulating carotenoids were assessed before and at the end of the experiment. Carotenoid-supplemented males developed a redder bill, but the effect of supplementation was reduced under cold exposure. However, we found evidence that birds facing a cold stress were carotenoid limited, since supplemented males developed redder bills than the non-supplemented ones. Interestingly, while cold-exposed and non-supplemented males developed duller bills, they circulated a higher amount of carotenoids at the end of the experiment compared to the pre-experimental values. Together, these results suggest that ambient temperature might contribute to the modulation of the expression of carotenoid-based ornaments. Our findings suggest that carotenoids are a limiting resource under cold exposure and that they might be prioritized for self-maintenance at the expense of the ornament. The physiological functions related to self-maintenance that might have benefited from carotenoid saving are discussed.
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- Cyril Eraud
- Université de Bourgogne, UMR-CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences,Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR-CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences,Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR-CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences,Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité Propre de Recherche de l'Enseignement Supérieur Lipides Nutrition, EA 2422, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR-CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences,Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR-CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences,Equipe Ecologie Evolutive, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
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Grissa O, Atègbo JM, Yessoufou A, Tabka Z, Miled A, Jerbi M, Dramane KL, Moutairou K, Prost J, Hichami A, Khan NA. Antioxidant status and circulating lipids are altered in human gestational diabetes and macrosomia. Transl Res 2007; 150:164-71. [PMID: 17761369 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2007.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2006] [Revised: 03/07/2007] [Accepted: 03/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fetuses from mothers with gestational diabetes are at increased risk of developing neonatal macrosomia and oxidative stress. We investigated the modulation of antioxidant status and circulating lipids in gestational diabetic mothers and their macrosomic babies and in healthy age-matched pregnant women and their newborns. The serum antioxidant status was assessed by employing anti-radical resistance kit (KRL; Kirial International SA, Couternon, France) and determining levels of vitamin A, C, and E and the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD). Circulating serum lipids were quantified, and lipid peroxidation was measured as the concentrations of serum thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS). As compared with non-diabetic mothers, gestational diabetic women exhibited decreased levels of vitamin E and enhanced concentrations of vitamin C without any changes in vitamin A. Vitamin A and C levels did not change in macrosomic babies except vitamin E whose levels were lower in these infants than in the newborns of non-diabetic mothers. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and macrosomia were also associated with impaired SOD activities and enhanced TBARS levels. Globally, total serum antioxidant defense status in diabetic mothers and their macrosomic babies was diminished as compared with control subjects. Triglyceride and cholesterol concentrations did not differ significantly between gestational diabetic and control mothers; however, macrosomia was associated with enhanced plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels. These results suggest that human GDM and macrosomia are associated with downregulation of antioxidant status, and macrosomic infants also exhibit altered lipid metabolism.
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- Oussama Grissa
- Department of Physiology and Functional Explorations, Farhat Hached University Hospital, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia
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Baba Ahmed FZ, Bouanane S, Merzouk SA, Merzouk H, Medjahed W, Kajima Mulengi J, Prost J. [2-hydroxy-methyl-1(N-phtaloyltryptophyl) aziridine stimulates in vitro human lymphocyte proliferation and interleukin secretion]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 56:137-42. [PMID: 17611043 DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2007.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2007] [Accepted: 05/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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UNLABELLED AIM OF THIS WORK: Aziridines have been shown to possess marked immunotropic activity. In this study, the in vitro effects of a new aziridine, 2-hydroxy-methyl-1-(N-phtaloyltryptophyl) aziridine, were determined on the proliferative responses of human lymphocytes stimulated by mitogens and on interleukin (IL-2, IL-6) secretion. MATERIAL AND METHODS Peripheral blood lymphocytes were isolated using differential centrifugation on a density gradient of Ficoll-Paque. They were cultured with or without mitogens (Concanavalin A and lipopolysaccharide), and with different concentrations of the aziridine. Proliferation was monitored by direct cell counts and confirmed by MTT [3-(4,5-dimethyl thiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide] assay. After different incubations, IL-2 and IL-6 were determined by using commercially available Elisa kits. RESULTS The aziridine tested significantly stimulated the resting and mitogen T and B lymphocyte proliferation at concentrations between 1 microM and 1 mM, in a dose-dependent manner. It also increased IL-2 and IL-6 secretion. CONCLUSION 2-hydroxy-methyl-1-(N-phtaloyltryptophyl) aziridine displayed immunomodulatory properties and is potentially immunostimulant. It could be used to provide non-specific cell-mediated immune responses.
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- F-Z Baba Ahmed
- Laboratoire de physiologie animale et biochimie, département de biologie, faculté des sciences, université Abou-Bekr-Belkaid, BP 119, Imama, 13000 Tlemcen, Algéria
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Chenni A, Yahia DA, Boukortt FO, Prost J, Lacaille-Dubois MA, Bouchenak M. Effect of aqueous extract of Ajuga iva supplementation on plasma lipid profile and tissue antioxidant status in rats fed a high-cholesterol diet. J Ethnopharmacol 2007; 109:207-13. [PMID: 16949233 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2006] [Revised: 05/23/2006] [Accepted: 05/25/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The present study was designed to explore the possible antioxidant and hypolipidemic effects of the aqueous extract of Ajuga iva (0.5% in the diet) in rats fed a high-cholesterol (1%) diet (HCD). The results indicated that the HCD-Ai versus HCD treatment led to many changes in biochemical parameters. They showed a decrease of plasma total cholesterol (TC) and VLDL-cholesterol but an increase of HDL(2)-cholesterol. The triacylglycerol contents were reduced in plasma and in VLDL. The lipid peroxidation determined by TBARS was decreased by 75% in plasma. TBARS in liver, heart and kidneys were highly reduced excepted in the adipose tissue. Ajuga iva treatment enhanced superoxide dismutase activity in liver and kidney. Glutathione reductase activity was lowered in adipose tissue but increased in liver and in kidney. A significant increase was noted in glutathione peroxidase activity in liver, heart and kidney but a low value in adipose tissue was observed. In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that in addition to its potent TG and TC-lowering effects, Ajuga iva is effective in improving the antioxidant status by reducing lipid peroxidation in plasma and tissues and enhancing the antioxidant enzymes in rats fed high-cholesterol diet. Furthermore, Ajuga iva may reduce intestinal cholesterol absorption.
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- A Chenni
- Laboratoire de Nutrition Clinique et Métabolique, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Oran Es Sénia, 31000 Oran, Algeria
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Yessoufou A, Ategbo JM, Girard A, Prost J, Dramane KL, Moutairou K, Hichami A, Khan NA. Cassava-enriched diet is not diabetogenic rather it aggravates diabetes in rats. Fundam Clin Pharmacol 2006; 20:579-86. [PMID: 17109651 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-8206.2006.00443.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Chronic intake of cassava has been thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. We investigated the effects of dietary cassava (Manihot esculenta), which naturally contains cyanogenic glycosides, in the progression of diabetes mellitus in rats. Diabetes was induced by five mild doses of streptozotocin, in male Wistar rats which were fed a standard or cyanide-free cassava (CFC) diet containing or not containing exogenous cyanide with or without methionine. Methionine was employed to counterbalance the toxic effects of cyanide. During diabetes progression, we determined glycaemia and antioxidant status, by measuring vitamin C levels and activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and glutathione reductase (GSSG-Red). Feeding CFC diet did not induce diabetes in control rats; rather this diet, in diabetic animals, aggravated hyperglycaemia the severity of which was increased in these animals fed CFC diet, supplemented with cyanide. Addition of methionine curtailed the toxic effects of cyanide supplementation in CFC diet-fed diabetic animals. In standard diet-fed animals, the activities of SOD, GSH-Px and GSSG-Red were lower in diabetic rats than control rats. Interestingly, all of the CFC diets with or without cyanide or methionine, increased vitamin C levels and antioxidant enzyme activities in both control and diabetic animals. However, supplementing cyanide to CFC diet (without methionine) curtailed SOD and GSH-Px activities in diabetic rats. Our study shows that cassava diet containing cyanide is 'diabetes-aggravating'.
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- Akadiri Yessoufou
- Department of Physiology, UPRES Lipids and Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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Girard A, Madani S, Boukortt F, Cherkaoui-Malki M, Belleville J, Prost J. Fructose-enriched diet modifies antioxidant status and lipid metabolism in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Nutrition 2006; 22:758-66. [PMID: 16815490 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2006.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2005] [Revised: 03/22/2006] [Accepted: 05/10/2006] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE High-fructose consumption in industrial countries has been shown to induce metabolic abnormalities or syndrome X. Changes in antioxidant defense are unknown in hypertension associated with metabolic disorders induced by high-fructose feeding. METHODS Twenty spontaneously hypertensive rats were assigned to one of two groups; one received a fructose-enriched diet (60% fructose) and the other a starch diet. After a 13-wk diet period, total antioxidant status was assessed in the blood and liver by monitoring the rate of free radical-induced red blood cell hemolysis. Antioxidants (enzymes and vitamins) were determined in blood and liver. Gene expression of antioxidant enzymes (copper/zinc superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase) were also investigated in hepatic tissue. RESULTS Fructose-fed rats showed blood pressure values similar to that of control rats but had increased glycemia and insulinemia. The antioxidant capacity in the blood of the fructose-fed group represented by copper/zinc superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activities and ascorbic acid was lower. However, the fructose diet enhanced the total antioxidant capacity of liver correlated with increased antioxidant enzyme activities and retinol concentrations. Gutathione peroxidase mRNA expression was decreased in livers of spontaneously hypertensive rats fed the fructose diet. CONCLUSION Fructose feeding negatively affects antioxidant capacity in the blood of hypertensive rats but improves this capacity in the liver.
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- Aurélie Girard
- UPRES Lipides Nutrition EA 2422, Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
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Baba AF, Medjahed W, Merzouk H, Kajima Mulengi J, Belleville J, Prost J. Effects of N-acyl-2-hydroxymethyl aziridines on in vitro proliferative responses of human lymphocytes stimulated by mitogens. Gen Physiol Biophys 2006; 25:277-87. [PMID: 17197726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Aziridines have been shown to possess marked immunotropic activity. The aim of this work was to study the in vitro effects of different concentrations of three novel aziridines, 2-hydroxy-methyl-1-(N-phtaloylglycyl) aziridine (aziridine 1), 2-hydroxy-methyl-1-(N-phtaloylalanyl) aziridine (aziridine 2) and 2-hydroxy-methyl-1-(N-phtaloylphenylalanyl) aziridine (aziridine 3), on the proliferative responses of human lymphocytes stimulated by mitogens (concanavalin A (Con A) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS)), and interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-6 (IL-6) secretion. The results showed that aziridines 1 and 3 significantly stimulated the resting and Con A or LPS lymphocyte proliferation at concentrations between 1 micromol/l and 1 mmol/l, in a dose-dependent manner, the action of aziridine 3 being the highest. They also increased IL-2 and IL-6 secretion. However, aziridine 2 had no effect on the resting lymphocyte proliferation in the absence of mitogens, at any concentration used, reduced Con A-stimulated T lymphocyte proliferation and LPS- stimulated B lymphocyte proliferation in a dose dependent manner and diminished IL-2 and IL-6 production. None of the three aziridines affected cell viability. In conclusion, the three aziridines used in this study displayed immunomodulatory properties. Aziridines 1 and 3 are potentially immunostimulant while aziridine 2 is immunosuppressive and could be used to provide nonspecific cell-mediated immune responses.
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- A F Baba
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Animale et Biochimie, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tlemcen, Algérie.
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Alonso-Alvarez C, Bertrand S, Devevey G, Prost J, Faivre B, Chastel O, Sorci G. AN EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION OF LIFE-HISTORY TRAJECTORIES AND RESISTANCE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS. Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb00534.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Alonso-Alvarez C, Bertrand S, Devevey G, Prost J, Faivre B, Chastel O, Sorci G. An experimental manipulation of life-history trajectories and resistance to oxidative stress. Evolution 2006; 60:1913-24. [PMID: 17089975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Optimal investment into life-history traits depends on the environmental conditions that organisms are likely to experience during their life. Evolutionary theory tells us that optimal investment in reproduction versus maintenance is likely to shape the pattern of age-associated decline in performance, also known as aging. The currency that is traded against different vital functions is, however, still debated. Here, we took advantage of a phenotypic manipulation of individual quality in early life to explore (1) long-term consequences on life-history trajectories, and (2) the possible physiological mechanism underlying the life-history adjustments. We manipulated phenotypic quality of a cohort of captive zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) by assigning breeding pairs to either an enlarged or a reduced brood. Nestlings raised in enlarged broods were in poorer condition than nestlings raised in reduced broods. Interestingly, the effect of environmental conditions experienced during early life extended to the age at first reproduction. Birds from enlarged broods delayed reproduction. Birds that delayed reproduction produced less offspring but lived longer, although neither fecundity nor longevity were directly affected by the experimental brood size. Using the framework of the life-table response experiment modeling, we also explored the effect of early environmental condition on population growth rate and aging. Birds raised in reduced broods tended to have a higher population growth rate, and a steeper decrease of reproductive value with age than birds reared in enlarged broods. Metabolic resources necessary to fight off the damaging effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS) could be the mechanism underlying the observed results, as (1) birds that engaged in a higher number of breeding events had a weaker red blood cell resistance to oxidative stress, (2) red blood cell resistance to oxidative stress predicted short-term mortality (but not longevity), and (3) was related with a parabolic function to age. Overall, these results highlight that early condition can have long-term effects on life-history trajectories by affecting key life-history traits such as age at first reproduction, and suggest that the trade-off between reproduction and self-maintenance might be mediated by the cumulative deleterious effect of ROS.
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- Carlos Alonso-Alvarez
- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unite Mixte de Recherche, 7103, 7 quai St. Bernard, 75252 Paris 05, France.
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