In a paper published on the British Medical journal, Patricia Dargent and her team at Inserm Unit 1018 (Center for Research In Epidemiology And Population Health (CESP) reveal that exercise programmes designed to prevent falls in older adults also appear to prevent injuries caused by falls.
The largest international study ever conducted on Alzheimer's disease, as part of the IGAP (International Genomics of Alzheimer Project) international consortium, coordinated by the joint research unit comprising Inserm, the Pasteur Institute at Lille-University Lille Nord de France 'Public health and molecular epidemiology of diseases associated with ageing' and LabEx DISTALZ, directed by Philippe Amouyel, has identified eleven new regions of the genome involved in the appearance of this...
Despite their efforts, many morbidly obese people continue to consume too much food (hyperphagia) compared to their reserves and their needs. And yet, the hunger hormone, called ghrelin, is most frequently found at a normal or even lower level in these patients. The Inserm Unit 1073 team "Nutrition, inflammation and dysfunction of the gut-brain axis" (Inserm/University of Rouen) has just explained this mechanism causing this paradoxical hyperphagia. Certain antibodies...
How can some people resist the attraction of immediate pleasures and pursue long-term goals, while others easily succumb and compromise their ultimate expectations? One secret factor might lie in the activity of a deep brain structure: the hippocampus.
Some individuals are better able to fight cancer for many years compared with others. This ability to fight tumours depends on the immune response, as observed for colorectal cancers by Jérôme Galon, Research Director at Inserm, and his team, the Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology, at the Cordelier Research Centre (Inserm/UPMC/Paris Descartes University). The investigators show that the proportions of immune system cells in and around the tumour change...
Le style de vie, les consommations alimentaires, les apports nutritionnels et l’état de santé des consommateurs de produits de l’agriculture biologique (Bio) n’ont fait l’objet que de peu d’études scientifiques au plan international, ainsi qu’en France, malgré l’intérêt et le nombre croissant des consommateurs de produits Bio. Dans ce protocole spécifique réalisé dans le cadre de l’étude NutriNet-Santé, l’attitude et la fréquence de consommation de 18 produits Bio, dont...
Exposure to common air pollutants and traffic during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of restricted fetal growth, even at levels well below those stipulated in current European Union (EU) air-quality directives, according to one of the largest cohort studies of its kind published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
A study carried out by teams from the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Cochin (Inserm, CNRS, Paris Descartes University), and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology at the University of Glasgow, may very well redefine current approaches to malaria and toxoplasmosis research in terms of treatment development.
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Certain parts of DNA are highly mobile and their dynamic motion participates in controlling gene expression. The research team working under Maria‐Elena Torres‐Padilla, an Inserm research director at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, has just developed a method of observing the organisation and movements of the genome in time and space.