Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus responsible for worldwide epidemics and constitutes a major public health threat. The majority of ZIKV infections in humans are either asymptomatic or result in a mild febrile illness. However, some patients develop a more severe, sometimes life-threatening, form of the disease. Recent evidence...
L’augmentation préoccupante de la résistance aux antibiotiques de Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) nécessite la recherche de thérapies alternatives telles que les Lactobacillus. Dans cette thèse, différents travaux ont été réalisés :1) Sur un modèle murin de pneumonie aigüe à PA, nous avons démontré l’effet bénéfique de l’administration intratrachéale d...
The human body (adult) is composed of 206 bones ("Anatomy and Physiology | Simple Book Production" n.d.) that are dense tissues and make up the bulk of the human skeleton. The skeleton, being highly vascularized, is the most commonly affected site for metastatic cancer (Coleman 1997). The development of these bone metastases weakens the bone and ca...
Repeated administrations of addictive drugs induce gradual changes in some of their behavioral effects. This phenomenon is called “behavioral sensitization”. In laboratory rodents, drug-induced behavioral sensitization is generally modeled as a progressive increase in the locomotor stimulant effects over repeated administrations of the same drug do...
Les microhémorragies cérébrales (MHC) sont caractérisées par une rupture des petits vaisseaux intracérébraux, conduisant à des épanchements sanguins d’un diamètre inférieur à 5 mm chez l’Homme, et considérées sans gravité. Malgré leur dimension microscopique et leur caractère silencieux, elles sont de plus en plus prises en compte par les clinicien...
Mouse blastocyst formation involves lumen formation and cell fate specification. While many studies have investigated how the blastocyst cell lineages are specified through genetics and signaling, studies into the potential role of the fluid lumen have yet to be conducted. We discover that blastocyst fluid emerges by secretion of cytoplasmic vesicl...
Drug addiction is largely caused by long lasting neuro-behavioral adaptations due to the repeated exposure to drugs. Some of these adaptations lead to an enhancement of the behavioral responses to these drugs. This phenomenon is called "behavioral sensitization” or “reverse tolerance”. Behavioral sensitization is a key concept in some current theor...
Neurotransmission involves the fusion of synaptic vesicles (SVs) to the presynaptic membrane to release neurotransmitters that will bind receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. The number of SVs in central nerve terminals is limited, necessitating a set of reliable mechanisms to regenerate SVs. Among such mechanisms are clathrin-mediated endocytosis,...
Les intoxications produites par les inhibiteurs de cholinestérases (IChE) comme les composés organophosphorés (OP) ou les carbamates peuvent être létales. Bien que ces intoxications affectent de nombreuses fonctions physiologiques, la mort est généralement provoquée par hypoxie pouvant provoquer des arrêts respiratoires. Prévenir les altérations de...
Heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding the transcription factor HNF1B are the cause of a complex multisystem syndrome known as Renal Cysts And Diabetes (RCAD). A mouse model generated in our laboratory was shown to reproduce several features of the human disease. We performed high-throughput mRNA-microRNA sequencing at different developmental ...
