- 2013
- Press releases - 07.01.2013
Detrimental effect of obesity on lesions associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers from Inserm and the Université Lille/Université Lille Nord de France have recently used a neurodegeneration model of Alzheimer’s disease to provide experimental evidence of the relationship between obesity and disorders linked to the tau protein.
- Press releases - 04.01.2013
Why good resolutions about taking up a physical activity can be hard to keep
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem that has both social and neurobiological causes. According to the results of an Ipsos survey published on Monday 31 December, the French have put “taking up a sport” at the top of their list of good resolutions for 2013. However, Francis Chaouloff, research director at Inserm’s NeuroCentre Magendie (Inserm Joint Research Unit 862, Université Bordeaux Ségalen), Sarah Dubreucq, a PhD student and François Georges, a CNRS research leader at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience (CNRS/Université Bordeaux Ségalen) have just discovered the key role played by a protein, the CB1 cannabinoid receptor, during physical exercise.
- What's on? - 03.01.2013
Development of a therapeutic vaccine against HIV: an alternative to tri-therapy?
Tri-therapy greatly improves survival and the quality of life of patents infected by HIV. However, this treatment must be continued indefinitely in order to prevent the progression of the disease. Researchers the world over are trying to find solutions to develop a vaccine capable of fighting the virus responsible for AIDS. In the meantime, in […]
- News in brief - 03.01.2013
What is at risk in the teenage drinker?
As part of the European AlcoBinge Project, coordinated by Mickaël Naassila’s team (INSERM Unit ERi 24), researchers used rats to explore the long-term effect of repeated intoxication during adolescence (the rat is considered to be an adolescent at 30 to 40 days from birth) and whether a predisposition and motivation to consume alcohol could lead […]
- What's on? - 03.01.2013
The gastroenteritis epidemic threshold has been surpassed
On a national level, the areas with the highest occurrences of cases per 100,000 inhabitants are: Aquitaine (743 100 000 , Picardie (736), Midi-Pyrénées (639), Languedoc-Roussillon (554), Basse-Normandie (479), Limousin (470), Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (393), Haute-Normandie (375), Bretagne (346), Auvergne (300), Ile-de-France (290), Pays-de-la-Loire (285) and Centre (285). Complete data region by region are given at the […]
- 2012
- Press releases - 19.12.2012
Auto-immune disease: the viral route is confirmed
Why would our immune system turn against our own cells? This is the question that the combined Inserm/CNRS/ Pierre and Marie Curie University/Association Institut de Myologie have strived to answer in their “Therapies for diseases of striated muscle”, concentrating in particular on the auto-immune disease known as myasthenia gravis.
- Press releases - 18.12.2012
The role of the innate immune cells in the development of Type 1 diabetes
Julien Diana and Yannick Simoni of the “Immune Mechanisms in Type 1 Diabetes” (Inserm/Université Paris Descartes), directed by Agnès Lehuen, have just published the results of their work on type 1 diabetes in the Nature Medicine journal. This is a disease characterised by the self-destruction of the p pancreatic cells that produce insulin.
- Press releases - 14.12.2012
Le cerveau des parfumeurs se modifie en fonction de leur expérience
Les aires cérébrales associées à l’olfaction sont plus développées chez les parfumeurs professionnels que chez le « commun des mortels ». En outre, plus ces experts ont une longue carrière derrière eux, plus grande est la quantité de matière grise dans leurs aires olfactives. Ce nouvel exemple de l’étonnante plasticité cérébrale dont est doté l’être humain vient d’être révélé par des chercheurs du CNRS/Inserm
- What's on? - 14.12.2012
(French) La présence de sels d’aluminium dans les vaccins constitue-t-elle un danger?
The aluminium salts used in the makeup of vaccines could have adverse effects on health. The metal could build up in the central nervous system and cause a rare disease known as macrophagic myofasciitis that can cause intense muscular pain, cognitive disorders and intense fatigue, among other symptoms. Romain Gherardi, Inserm researcher at the Inserm […]
- News in brief - 12.12.2012
The carrot or the stick?
Although they did not answer this question directly, the INSERM researchers under Mathias Pessiglione at the Neuroscience Research Centre of the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital recently showed that very specific regions are activated in the brain when faced with either situation. Certain regions of the brain (the anterior insula and the dorsal striatum) constitute a system […]