23 resultados para Davis, Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston), 1773-1850

em Université de Lausanne, Switzerland


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Plant-parasitic nematodes are major agricultural pests worldwide and novel approaches to control them are sorely needed. We report the draft genome sequence of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita, a biotrophic parasite of many crops, including tomato, cotton and coffee. Most of the assembled sequence of this asexually reproducing nematode, totaling 86 Mb, exists in pairs of homologous but divergent segments. This suggests that ancient allelic regions in M. incognita are evolving toward effective haploidy, permitting new mechanisms of adaptation. The number and diversity of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in M. incognita is unprecedented in any animal for which a genome sequence is available, and may derive from multiple horizontal gene transfers from bacterial sources. Our results provide insights into the adaptations required by metazoans to successfully parasitize immunocompetent plants, and open the way for discovering new antiparasitic strategies.

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S'inscrivant dans le sous-domaine interdisciplinaire de l'Urban Political Ecology (UPE), cette thèse dresse une géo-histoire foucauldienne de l'eau urbaine, particulièrement l'eau en réseau, en Suisse entre 1850 et nos jours. Plus précisément, il s'agit d'une étude des modes d'exercice du pouvoir (les formes de gouvernementalité) et de leurs outils (les technologies de pouvoir), focalisée sur l'eau en réseau et menée à l'aide d'une méthode archéogénéalogique. Cette recherche apporte des contributions théoriques et empiriques à l'UPE. Du côté théorique, elle propose l'adoption d'une approche foucauldienne dans le domaine de l'UPE, elle définit le potentiel et les implications de son éthique de la recherche et elle décrit certains parmi les principaux concepts, théories et méthodes foucauldiens mobilisables au sein de l'UPE de l'eau. Du côté empirique, elle applique l'approche proposée à une série d'études de cas, permettant de dresser la géo-histoire mentionnée plus haut mais aussi de nuancer le cadre théorique et méthodologique, de l'enrichir et d'en pointer les limites. A travers l'étude d'archives de la presse locale, les trois premières études de cas montrent que deux formes de gouvernementalité ont coexisté en Suisse pendant la période étudiée, à savoir le biopouvoir et la gouvernementalité néolibérale. Cependant, ces deux formes de gouvernementalité dévient considérablement des modèles proposés par Michel Foucault. Par exemple, des technologies de pouvoir permettant le gouvernement à distance relatives à la santé de la population ont fait leur apparition dès la deuxième moitié du dix-neuvième siècle, ce qui interroge la définition du biopouvoir telle qu'elle avait initialement été proposée par Michel Foucault. La dernière étude de cas est centrée sur l'époque contemporaine. Elle indique qu'à l'heure actuelle une production centralisée d'argumentaires destinés aux citoyens-consommateurs a lieu dans des espaces non-statutaires d'inspiration néolibérale (les soft spaces). Cette production discursive centralisée se révèle efficace et contribue, paradoxalement, au maintien d'un modèle helvétique décentralisé et démocratique en matière d'eau du robinet. Des recherches ultérieures pourraient permettre de tester la pertinence de l'approche foucauldienne adoptée ici dans d'autres cas d'étude, de nuancer et enrichir ultérieurement le cadre théorique et d'améliorer la méthode utilisée.

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PURPOSE: Orbital wall fracture may occur during endoscopic sinus surgery, resulting in oculomotor disorders. We report the management of four cases presenting with this surgical complication. METHODS: A non-comparative observational retrospective study was carried out on four patients presenting with diplopia after endoscopic ethmoidal sinus surgery. All patients underwent full ophthalmologic and orthoptic examination as well as orbital imaging. RESULTS: All four patients presented with diplopia secondary to a medial rectus lesion confirmed by orbital imaging. A large horizontal deviation as well as limitation of adduction was present in all cases. Surgical management consisted of conventional recession-resection procedures in three cases and muscle transposition in one patient. A useful field of binocular single vision was restored in two of the four patients. CONCLUSION: Orbital injury may occur during endoscopic sinus surgery and cause diplopia, usually secondary to medial rectus involvement due to the proximity of this muscle to the lamina papyracea of the ethmoid bone. Surgical management is based on orbital imaging, duration of the lesion, evaluation of anterior segment vasculature, results of forced duction testing and intraoperative findings. In most cases, treatment is aimed at the symptoms rather than the cause, and the functional prognosis remains guarded.

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(Résumé de l'ouvrage) In 1927 M. R. James published Latin Infancy Gospels, identified by him in two related but not identical manuscripts (one the British Library Arundel 404; the other from Hereford), together with a parallel text from the Irish manuscript known as the Leabhar Breac. Later researches brought to light more manuscripts of this Latin work, and also of the Irish text. James recognized that his apocryphal Latin Infancy text was compiled from a combination of the Protevangelium of James and a hitherto unknown text which he named "The Source". Recent research has identified a full Latin translation of the Protevangelium of James. A hitherto unrecognized Irish Infancy Narrative has also been identified in the Dublin manuscript known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. A deep study of this related tradition was called for. This has been carried out over the past ten years by an Irish team in conjunction with Professor Daniel Kaestli and AELAC. The fruits of this labour are published in these two volumes. Volume 13 has a general introduction with a historical sketch of New Testament apocrypha in Ireland and a history of research on the subject. This is followed by a comparison of the Infancy Narratives in the Leabhar Breac and the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. There are special introductions to these Infancy texts, followed by critical editions of the Irish texts, accompanied by English translations and rich annotation. Next there is similar treatment of the Irish versified Narrative (from ca. 700) of the Childhood Deeds of Jesus (commonly known as the Infancy Narrative (or Gospel) of Thomas. There is then (in volume 14, but with continuous pagination) the edition and translation of an Irish thirteenth-century poem with elements from Infancy Narratives, and both Latin and Irish texts on the wonders at Christ's birth, accompanied by translations and notes. The edition of the Irish material is followed by a critical edition of the full Arundel and Hereford forms of the Infancy Narrative (here referred to as the "J Compilation"), together with a detailed study of all the questions relating to this work. The volume concludes with a critical edition (by Rita Beyers) of the Latin text of the Protevangelium of James, accompanied by a detailed study of the work.. The work contains a detailed study of the Latin translations of the Protevangelium of James and the transmission of this work in the West. The "J Compilation" (a combination of the Protevangelium and texts of Pseudo-Matthew) can be traced back in manuscript transmission to ca. 800,and must have originated some time earlier. Behind it stands an earlier "I ("I" for Irish) Compilation" without influence from Pseudo-Matthew, the form found in the Irish witnesses. It is argued that M. R. James's "Source" may be of Judaeo-Christian origin and may really be the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Among the indexes there is a list of all the Irish words found in the texts. This edition of the Irish and related Latin texts is a major contribution to the study of the apocryphal Infancy Narratives. It should also be of particular interest to Celtic scholars, to students of Irish ecclesiastical learning, and in general to all medievalists.

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(Résumé de l'ouvrage) In 1927 M. R. James published Latin Infancy Gospels, identified by him in two related but not identical manuscripts (one the British Library Arundel 404; the other from Hereford), together with a parallel text from the Irish manuscript known as the Leabhar Breac. Later researches brought to light more manuscripts of this Latin work, and also of the Irish text. James recognized that his apocryphal Latin Infancy text was compiled from a combination of the Protevangelium of James and a hitherto unknown text which he named "The Source". Recent research has identified a full Latin translation of the Protevangelium of James. A hitherto unrecognized Irish Infancy Narrative has also been identified in the Dublin manuscript known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. A deep study of this related tradition was called for. This has been carried out over the past ten years by an Irish team in conjunction with Professor Daniel Kaestli and AELAC. The fruits of this labour are published in these two volumes. Volume 13 has a general introduction with a historical sketch of New Testament apocrypha in Ireland and a history of research on the subject. This is followed by a comparison of the Infancy Narratives in the Leabhar Breac and the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. There are special introductions to these Infancy texts, followed by critical editions of the Irish texts, accompanied by English translations and rich annotation. Next there is similar treatment of the Irish versified Narrative (from ca. 700) of the Childhood Deeds of Jesus (commonly known as the Infancy Narrative (or Gospel) of Thomas. There is then (in volume 14, but with continuous pagination) the edition and translation of an Irish thirteenth-century poem with elements from Infancy Narratives, and both Latin and Irish texts on the wonders at Christ's birth, accompanied by translations and notes. The edition of the Irish material is followed by a critical edition of the full Arundel and Hereford forms of the Infancy Narrative (here referred to as the "J Compilation"), together with a detailed study of all the questions relating to this work. The volume concludes with a critical edition (by Rita Beyers) of the Latin text of the Protevangelium of James, accompanied by a detailed study of the work.. The work contains a detailed study of the Latin translations of the Protevangelium of James and the transmission of this work in the West. The "J Compilation" (a combination of the Protevangelium and texts of Pseudo-Matthew) can be traced back in manuscript transmission to ca. 800,and must have originated some time earlier. Behind it stands an earlier "I ("I" for Irish) Compilation" without influence from Pseudo-Matthew, the form found in the Irish witnesses. It is argued that M. R. James's "Source" may be of Judaeo-Christian origin and may really be the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Among the indexes there is a list of all the Irish words found in the texts. This edition of the Irish and related Latin texts is a major contribution to the study of the apocryphal Infancy Narratives. It should also be of particular interest to Celtic scholars, to students of Irish ecclesiastical learning, and in general to all medievalists.

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Résumé : Cette recherche doctorale analyse l'engagement des médecins français autour de l'éducation physique entre 1741 et 1888. Basé sur un travail prosopographique d'identification des médecins qui ont participé à l'élaboration de l'éducation physique, ce travail repose sur une mise en dialogue de leurs prises de position respectives. Pour réaliser cette enquête, nous avons compulsé un large corpus de sources primaires, composé des ouvrages consacrés à la gymnastique médicale mais aussi une très large portion de la production d'imprimés touchant à l'anatomie, l'hygiène, la thérapeutique, la physiologie, l'orthopédie, etc. Le corpus contient également des articles des principaux dictionnaires médicaux de la période et des principales revues médicales du XIXe siècle. Avec une approche critique de l'historiographie et à partir de ce corpus, nous avons travaillé dans le cadre de contextes définis pour saisir au plus près les logiques sociales et scientifiques amenant les médecins auprès de l'éducation physique. Trois conjonctures successives structurent l'engagement médical. Entre 1741 et 1817, la thèse retrace l'émergence d'un questionnement ; les années 1817-1847 constituent un « moment orthopédique » dans la formulation de la gymnastique ; et finalement entre 1847 et 1888, on observe une diversification des voies de ©gitimation médicale des exercices du corps. Ces trois moments de l'histoire des « discours gymniques médicaux » proposent un certain nombre de convergences : la prégnance de l'orthopédie, une certaine concentration autour de la santé des corps féminins, l'inclusion dans un « projet hygiéniste » ; mais aussi des divergences et des singularités : relatives à la progressive structuration en cours du champ médical, à l'implication progressive du politique (surtout après 1845/1850), aux transformations des pathologies/doctrines médicales « dominantes », ainsi qu'à l'importance plus ou moins forte de l'une ou l'autre des facettes de l'éducation physique (militaire, ath©tique, « médicinale » ou pédagogique). Le processus est aussi celui de l'expérimentation de la curation de certaines pathologies (scolioses, affections nerveuses), dans des configurations idéologiques/scientifiques marquées par la « dégénération » (XVIIIe siècle), l'anatomie pathologique (début du XIXe siècle) et plus tard la « dégénérescence » et les affections nerveuses (après 1850). Dans le cadre d'une dynamique d'inspiration « foucaldienne », ces recommandations évoluent d'une anatomopolitique - caractérisée par un essor de discours empreints d'anatomie au XVIIIe siècle - vers une biopolitique - caractérisée par l'engagement de l'Etat qui fait de la gymnastique une discipline d'enseignement, pensée à des fins hygiéniques dans la seconde moitié du XIXe - où le processus réside en fait dans une biologisation progressive des recommandations pratiques. Observée à l'aune de la formulation médicale de l'éducation physique, la biopolitique n'est pas réalisée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe, elle se compose lentement aux marges de l'institution scolaire et des gymnastiques pédagogico-militaires pour constituer un projet thérapeutique et hygiénique plus construit après 1850. Abstract : This dissertation analyzes French doctor's involvement in debates and initiatives concerning physical education between 1741 and 1888. Based on a prosopographic inventory of those physicians who participated in the development of physical education, it explores the variety of their discourses with respect to the practice of physical exercises. This investigation relies on a large selection of primary sources: works devoted to medical gymnastic, but also medical treatises related to anatomy, hygiene, therapeutics, physiology, orthopedics, etc. The sources also include articles from the major medical dictionaries and journals of the nineteenth century. These documents are used to explore the socio-scientific mechanisms that underlay physicians' commitment to physical education. Three chronological periods structure medical engagement in the area of physical education. Between 1741 and 1817 the thesis traces the emergence of a questioning; the years 1817 to 1847 represent an « orthopedic moment » in the development of gymnastics; finally between 1847 and 1888, one witnesses a diversification of the legitimation process between medicine and gymnastics. These three moments in the history of « medical and gymnastic discourses » offer a number of similarities: the weight of orthopedics, the ongoing focus on the health of the female body, and the association of these discourses with a « hygienic project ». But differences also distinguish these periods as the medical field became more structured and new medical doctrines became dominant, with the increasing involvement of politics (especially after 1850), and with the changing weight of priorities within physical education (military, athletic, « medical » or pedagogic). Medical discourses centered on the curing of certain diseases (scoliosis or nervous disorders) are analyzed within an ideological configuration marked by the idea of « degeneration » (in the eighteenth century), « pathological anatomy » (in the early nineteenth century) and later « dégénérescence » associated with nervous disorders (after 1850). The dissertation draws on Foucault's historical epistemology to understand how medical recommendations evolve from an anatomopolitics - characterized by a surge in anatomical discourses - toward a biopolitics - characterized by the commitment of the State to introduce gymnastics for hygienic purposes into schools in the second half of the nineteenth century. This process reveals a progressive "biologization" of practical recommendations. The medical discourses about physical education show that Foucault's biopolitical power is not achieved in the second half of the eighteenth century, but develops slowly at the margins of the school system and of pedagogical and military gymnastic, becoming a veritable hygienic and therapeutic project only after 1850.

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BACKGROUND: Establishing the genetic basis of phenotypes such as skeletal dysplasia in model organisms can provide insights into biologic processes and their role in human disease. METHODS: We screened mutagenized mice and observed a neonatal lethal skeletal dysplasia with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. Through genetic mapping and positional cloning, we identified the causative mutation. RESULTS: Affected mice had a nonsense mutation in the thyroid hormone receptor interactor 11 gene (Trip11), which encodes the Golgi microtubule-associated protein 210 (GMAP-210); the affected mice lacked this protein. Golgi architecture was disturbed in multiple tissues, including cartilage. Skeletal development was severely impaired, with chondrocytes showing swelling and stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, abnormal cellular differentiation, and increased cell death. Golgi-mediated glycosylation events were altered in fibroblasts and chondrocytes lacking GMAP-210, and these chondrocytes had intracellular accumulation of perlecan, an extracellular matrix protein, but not of type II collagen or aggrecan, two other extracellular matrix proteins. The similarities between the skeletal and cellular phenotypes in these mice and those in patients with achondrogenesis type 1A, a neonatal lethal form of skeletal dysplasia in humans, suggested that achondrogenesis type 1A may be caused by GMAP-210 deficiency. Sequence analysis revealed loss-of-function mutations in the 10 unrelated patients with achondrogenesis type 1A whom we studied. CONCLUSIONS: GMAP-210 is required for the efficient glycosylation and cellular transport of multiple proteins. The identification of a mutation affecting GMAP-210 in mice, and then in humans, as the cause of a lethal skeletal dysplasia underscores the value of screening for abnormal phenotypes in model organisms and identifying the causative mutations.

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Résumé de la thèseCette étude repose sur un double constat initial : en premier lieu, les récits français d'explorationau Tibet de la période s'étendant de 1850 à 1912 re¨vent d'une tradition particulière du voyagescientifique en partie irréductible aux traditions des autres nations impérialistes de la mêmeépoque, notamment la tradition britannique à laquelle on les a souvent assimi©s. En second lieu,ces récits révèlent à la fois la place centrale dégagée à la description du paysage tibétain et uneévolution unique et originale des savoirs et des représentations qui lui sont liés.Ce travail montre la rapide évolution des images du Tibet que s'est façonnées l'Europe,l'interrelation de cette histoire des représentations avec une révision des connaissances sur laterre et l'homme dans les sciences du XIXe siècle, ainsi qu'une dimension différentielle entre lesobjectifs de connaissance émanant des explorateurs français et anglais, différence due à uncontexte géopolitique hétérogène. Sur le fond de cette démarche contextualisante, le recours àl'analyse textuelle met en évidence le rôle qu'ont joué les explorateurs français dans l'histoire dessavoirs sur le Tibet.Pour des raisons inhérentes à la qualité d'écriture de ses récits et à l'acuité remarquable de sonapproche du monde tibétain, une place centrale de ce travail a été ménagée à Jacques Bacot(voyages de 1906 à 1907 - Dans les Marches tibétaines - et de 1909 à 1910 - Le Tibet révolté). Il a dèslors été fructueux de replacer ses récits dans l'histoire des savoirs et des représentations du Tibetet de les comparer aux récits majeurs d'autres explorateurs français au Tibet comme GabrielBonvalot, Fernand Grenard et Henri d'Ollone.Le paysage est une notion-c© pour comprendre le regard que portent les explorateurs sur leTibet. Or le paysage revêt des acceptions variables selon les auteurs et affiche des facettesdifférentes. Il a ainsi été possible de distinguer plusieurs dimensions : une dimension cognitive, unedimension épistémique, une dimension intersubjective et, enfin, une dimension imaginaire et sacrée. Cettedimension sacrée du paysage peut également être actualisée en tant que dimension écosymbolique.C'est   l'aboutissement des voyages de Bacot. L'explorateur, attentif à la culture tibétaine, envient à réaliser la valeur sacrée qui traverse la relation des Tibétains eux-mêmes à leurenvironnement. Le paysage ainsi compris se place au fondement d'une expérience partagée avecdes acteurs issus d'une autre culture et apparaît ainsi comme un opérateur privi©gié pour« comprendre les compréhensions » (Clifford Geertz) des explorateurs, mais aussi, de proche enproche, des Tibétains.D'un point de vue épistémologique, la mise au jour de ces dimensions du paysage permetd'éviter certains écueils de la critique historienne et littéraire sur les récits de voyage au Tibet, quin'y a vu tantôt que de simples documents inertes, tantôt que le reflet d'un imaginaire purementet indéfectiblement occidental. La présente étude montre au contraire la part irréductiblequ'occupe la rencontre in situ avec l'autre et l'ailleurs dans l'élaboration conjointe desreprésentations et des savoirs.

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Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is a pathological aging of the macula, brought about by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. It induces geographic atrophy of the retina and/or choroidal neovascularization. In the latter, abnormal vessels develop from the choriocapillaris, with the involvement of VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor). The VEGF family includes several factors, including VEGF-A, B, C, D, F and PlGF (placental growth factor). Their biological properties and their affinities to the VEGFR1, VEGFR2 and VEGFR3 receptors found on endothelial cells differ. Exudative AMD involves mainly VEGF-A and VEGF-R2. Anti-VEGF agents used in ophthalmology (ranibizumab, bevacizumab and aflibercept) are designed to primarily target this pathway. In vitro, all have sufficient affinity to their ligands. Their therapeutic efficacy must therefore be judged based on clinical criteria. In clinical practice, the minimum number of injections required for a satisfactory result appears to be comparable with all the three. The few available studies on therapeutic substitutions of anti-VEGF compounds suggest that some patients may benefit from substituting the anti-VEGF in cases of an unsatisfactory response to an initial molecule. Although local side effects, including increased risk of geographic atrophy, and systemic effects, including vascular accidents, have been suggested, these risks remain low, specially compared to the benefits of the treatment. Differences in safety between anti-VEGF are theoretically possible but unproven.