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Phage therapy : synergy between bacteriophages and the immune system is essential

Phage therapy involves the use of bacteriophages, or phages, for treating bacterial infections. Phages are viruses that specifically attack bacteria and are harmless to humans. A significant decline in the use of this therapeutic strategy introduced 100 years ago was seen in ...
Press release | 12 Jul 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Refractory cardiac arrest: an aggressive ECPR strategy significantly increases patient survival

Multidisciplinary teams from the AP-HP Paris public hospitals network (SAMU75 emergency response dispatch centers and Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou), as well as from Inserm, the Université Paris-Descartes, and the Paris BSPP medical emergency service, compared, in the French capital, two strategies of extracorporeal ...
Press release | 04 Jun 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Public health

Fecal incontinence : a novel therapy for a distressing condition

Inserm researchers in Rouen (Unit 1234 "PANTHER: Physiopathology, autoimmunity, neuromuscular diseases and regenerative therapies", Inserm/Université de Rouen Normandie) have tested with success a cell therapy aiming to restore the ability of the sphincters to contract in patients with fecal incontinence. As part ...
Press release | 30 May 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Men/Women: not all equal in the face of allergic asthma

Researchers led by Jean-Charles Guéry of the Centre for Pathophysiology Toulouse Purpan (Inserm/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier/ CNRS) are providing new insights into the possible link between male hormones and differences in gender in susceptibility to allergic asthma. This study demonstrates ...
Press release | 22 May 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Endotoxic Shock: the Protective Role of Neutrophil Immune Cells

Researchers from Institut Pasteur and Inserm, in collaboration with Stanford University, have demonstrated the protective role of immune cells, called neutrophil granulocytes, in endotoxic shock - the component of septic shock related to the action of bacterial toxins. An effect thought to ...
Press release | 27 Apr 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

The composition of gut microbiota can predict the efficacy and tolerance of immunotherapy in people with cancer

Teams from AP-HP, INRA, Gustave Roussy and Inserm can demonstrate the role of microbiota in the response of immunotherapy for cancer. They show that in man, the composition of gut microbiota can help to identify the patients who will respond favourably or ...
Press release | 25 Apr 2017 | Cancer Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Public health
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