Crescent and star shapes of members of the Chlamydiales order: impact of fixative methods.

Members of the Chlamydiales order all share a biphasic lifecycle alternating between small infectious particles, the elementary bodies (EBs) and larger intracellular forms able to replicate, the reticulate bodies. Whereas the classical Chlamydia usually harbours round-shaped EBs, some members of the Chlamydia-related families display crescent and star-shaped morphologies by electron microscopy. To determine the impact of fixative methods on the shape of the bacterial cells, different buffer and fixative combinations were tested on purified EBs of Criblamydia sequanensis, Estrella lausannensis, Parachlamydia acanthamoebae, and Waddlia chondrophila. A linear discriminant analysis was performed on particle metrics extracted from electron microscopy images to recognize crescent, round, star and intermediary forms. Depending on the buffer and fixatives used, a mixture of alternative shapes were observed in varying proportions with stars and crescents being more frequent in C. sequanensis and P. acanthamoebae, respectively. No tested buffer and chemical fixative preserved ideally the round shape of a majority of bacteria and other methods such as deep-freezing and cryofixation should be applied. Although crescent and star shapes could represent a fixation artifact, they certainly point towards a diverse composition and organization of membrane proteins or intracellular structures rather than being a distinct developmental stage.

Joannis Joviani Pontani Opera omnia, soluta oratione composita Nomina librorum qui in hisse tribus partibus continentur, à tergo hujus paginae notatae reperiuntur

Comprend : Centum Ptolemaei Sententiae ad Syrum fratrem a Pontano è graeco in latinum tralatae, atque expositae

Joannis Joviani Pontani Opera omnia, soluta oratione composita Nomina librorum qui in hisse tribus partibus continentur, à tergo hujus paginae notatae reperiuntur

Comprend : Centum Ptolemaei Sententiae ad Syrum fratrem a Pontano è graeco in latinum tralatae, atque expositae

Reliure de : M. T. Ciceronis Orationum volumen primum [-tertium].

[Discours (latin). 1519]

High-intensity intermittent training in hypoxia: a double-blinded, placebo-controlled field study in youth football players.

High-intensity intermittent training in hypoxia: A double-blinded, placebo-controlled field study in youth football players. J Strength Cond Res 29(1): 226-237, 2015-This study examined the effects of 5 weeks (∼60 minutes per training, 2 d·wk) of run-based high-intensity repeated-sprint ability (RSA) and explosive strength/agility/sprint training in either normobaric hypoxia repeated sprints in hypoxia (RSH; inspired oxygen fraction [FIO2] = 14.3%) or repeated sprints in normoxia (RSN; FIO2 = 21.0%) on physical performance in 16 highly trained, under-18 male footballers. For both RSH (n = 8) and RSN (n = 8) groups, lower-limb explosive power, sprinting (10-40 m) times, maximal aerobic speed, repeated-sprint (10 × 30 m, 30-s rest) and repeated-agility (RA) (6 × 20 m, 30-s rest) abilities were evaluated in normoxia before and after supervised training. Lower-limb explosive power (+6.5 ± 1.9% vs. +5.0 ± 7.6% for RSH and RSN, respectively; both p < 0.001) and performance during maximal sprinting increased (from -6.6 ± 2.2% vs. -4.3 ± 2.6% at 10 m to -1.7 ± 1.7% vs. -1.3 ± 2.3% at 40 m for RSH and RSN, respectively; p values ranging from <0.05 to <0.01) to a similar extent in RSH and RSN. Both groups improved best (-3.0 ± 1.7% vs. -2.3 ± 1.8%; both p ≤ 0.05) and mean (-3.2 ± 1.7%, p < 0.01 vs. -1.9 ± 2.6%, p ≤ 0.05 for RSH and RSN, respectively) repeated-sprint times, whereas sprint decrement did not change. Significant interactions effects (p ≤ 0.05) between condition and time were found for RA ability-related parameters with very likely greater gains (p ≤ 0.05) for RSH than RSN (initial sprint: 4.4 ± 1.9% vs. 2.0 ± 1.7% and cumulated times: 4.3 ± 0.6% vs. 2.4 ± 1.7%). Maximal aerobic speed remained unchanged throughout the protocol. In youth highly trained football players, the addition of 10 repeated-sprint training sessions performed in hypoxia vs. normoxia to their regular football practice over a 5-week in-season period was more efficient at enhancing RA ability (including direction changes), whereas it had no additional effect on improvements in lower-limb explosive power, maximal sprinting, and RSA performance.

En voyage pour Monseigneur. Ambassadeurs, officiers et messagers à la cour de Savoie (XIVè-XVè siècles)

Du commandement de mon très redouté seigneur pour aller en ambassade. C'est en ces termes que les émissaires du duc de Savoie Amédée VIII (1391-1440) s'adressaient à leur prince lorsqu'ils étaient envoyés en mission : la charge d'ambassadeur résident n'existant pas encore, chaque négociation impliquait en effet un voyage.Des simples messagers jusqu'aux ambassadeurs, cet ouvrage propose pour la première fois une histoire de ces hommes qui servaient leur maître en parcourant l'Europe, dans un rayon d'action s'étendant du Portugal à l'Ecosse et de la Hongrie à l'Egypte. Il offre une vision globale de leurs missions, en évoquant tant la préparation du voyage que les moyens de transport employés, les itinéraires suivis, les périls affrontés, les problèmes de logement et d'argent, voire même les curiosités « touristiques ».Négligés par les historiens - qui se sont focalisés sur la figure d'Amédée VIII et ses capacités de fi n diplomate, notamment à l'occasion de sa médiation auprès des divers protagonistes de la guerre de Cent Ans - ces officiers voyageurs constituent un rouage fondamental de la politique internationale savoyarde.Basé principalement sur l'exceptionnelle série de comptes déposée aux Archives d'Etat de Turin, ce livre démontre également comment Amédée VIII a organisé les voyages de ses officiers au niveau législatif, administratif, financier et pratique, afin d'en faire un instrument de pouvoir et de gouvernement aussi maîtrisé que performant.Dépassant le cadre savoyard, cette étude replace le principat d'Amédée VIII et celui de son fils Louis (1440-1465) dans un contexte européen, en comparant leurs pratiques avec celles en vigueur dans les cours française, bourguignonne, anglaise et milanaise.

In vitro-binding of the natural siderophore enantiomers pyochelin and enantiopyochelin to their AraC-type regulators PchR in Pseudomonas.

The enantiomeric siderophores pyochelin and enantiopyochelin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas protegens promote growth under iron limitation and activate transcription of their biosynthesis and uptake genes via the AraC-type regulator PchR. Here we investigated siderophore binding to PchR in vitro using fluorescence spectroscopy. A fusion of the N-terminal domain of P. aeruginosa PchR with maltose binding protein (MBP-PchR'PAO) bound iron-loaded (ferri-) pyochelin with an affinity (Kd) of 41 ± 5 μM. By contrast, no binding occurred with ferri-enantiopyochelin. Stereospecificity of a similar fusion protein of the P. protegens PchR (MBP-PchR'CHA0) was less pronounced. The Kd's of MBP-PchR'CHA0 for ferri-enantiopyochelin and ferri-pyochelin were 24 ± 5 and 40 ± 7 μM, respectively. None of the proteins interacted with the iron-free siderophore enantiomers, suggesting that transcriptional activation by PchR occurs only when the respective siderophore actively procures iron to the cell.

[Illustrations de Brevis ac dilucida Burgundiae superioris... item brevis ad modum totius Galliae descriptio per eudem] / [Non identifié] ; Gilbert Cousin, aut. du texte

Comprend : [Planche entre les p. 48-49. Deux planches. Représentation du côté ouest et du côté est d'une ville. Habitations burgondes.] [Cote : BNF C214317] ; [Planche dépliante entre les p. 48-49. Partie gauche de la planche représentant le côté est d'une ville. Habitations burgondes.] [Cote : BNF C94455]

Successive treatment with cyclosporine and infliximab in steroid-refractory ulcerative colitis.

OBJECTIVES: Rescue therapy with either cyclosporine (CYS) or infliximab (IFX) is an effective option in patients with intravenous steroid-refractory attacks of ulcerative colitis (UC). In patients who fail, colectomy is usually recommended, but a second-line rescue therapy with IFX or CYS is an alternative. The aims of this study were to investigate the efficacy and tolerance of IFX and CYS as a second-line rescue therapy in steroid-refractory UC or indeterminate colitis (IC) unsuccessfully treated with CYS or IFX.METHODS: This was a retrospective survey of patients seen during the period 2000-2008 in the GETAID centers. Inclusion criteria included a delay of <1 month between CYS withdrawal (when used first) and IFX, or a delay of <2 months between IFX (when used first) and CYS, and a follow-up of at least 3 months after inclusion. Time-to-colectomy, clinical response, and occurrence of serious adverse events were analyzed.RESULTS: A total of 86 patients (median age 34 years; 49 males; 71 UC and 15 IC) were successively treated with CYS and IFX. The median (+/-s.e.) follow-up time was 22.6 (7.0) months. During the study period, 49 patients failed to respond to the second-line rescue therapy and underwent a colectomy. The probability of colectomy-free survival (+/-s.e.) was 61.3 +/- 5.3% at 3 months and 41.3 +/- 5.6% at 12 months. A case of fatal pulmonary embolism occurred at 1 day after surgery in a 45-year-old man. Also, nine infectious complications were observed during the second-line rescue therapy.CONCLUSIONS: In patients with intravenous steroid-refractory UC and who fail to respond to CYS or IFX, a second-line rescue therapy may be effective in carefully selected patients, avoiding colectomy within 2 months in two-thirds of them. The risk/benefit ratio should still be considered individually.

[Illustration de Relatione di tutto il successo di Famagosta] / [Non identifié] ; Comte Nestor Martinengo, aut. du texte

Comprend : [Plan ajouté à l'exemplaire. Plan du siège de Famagosta. Chypre.] [Cote : BNF C36272]

Triathlon event distance specialization: training and injury effects.

We conducted a preliminary, questionnaire-based, retrospective analysis of training and injury in British National Squad Olympic distance (OD) and Ironman distance (IR) triathletes. The main outcome measures were training duration and training frequency and injury frequency and severity. The number of overuse injuries sustained over a 5-year period did not differ between OD and IR. However, the proportions of OD and IR athletes who were affected by injury to particular anatomical sites differed (p < 0.05). Also, fewer OD athletes (16.7 vs. 36.8%, p < 0.05) reported that their injury recurred. Although OD sustained fewer running injuries than IR (1.6 +/- 0.5 vs. 1.9 +/- 0.3, p < 0.05), more subsequently stopped running (41.7 vs. 15.8%) and for longer (33.5 +/- 43.0 vs. 16.7 +/- 16.6 days, p < 0.01). In OD, the number of overuse injuries sustained inversely correlated with percentage training time, and number of sessions, doing bike hill repetitions (r = -0.44 and -0.39, respectively, both p < 0.05). The IR overuse injury number correlated with the amount of intensive sessions done (r = 0.67, p < 0.01 and r = 0.56, p < 0.05 for duration of "speed run" and "speed bike" sessions). Coaches should note that training differences between triathletes who specialize in OD or IR competition may lead to their exhibiting differential risk for injury to specific anatomical sites. It is also important to note that cycle and run training may have a "cumulative stress" influence on injury risk. Therefore, the tendency of some triathletes to modify rather than stop training when injured-usually by increasing load in another discipline from that in which the injury first occurred-may increase both their risk of injury recurrence and time to full rehabilitation.

[Illustration de La nouvelle estoile apparue sur tous les climats du monde et de ses effets avec la déclaration de la carte de M. Léonard Turneisserus] / [Non identifié] ; Léonard Turneisser, aut. du texte

Comprend : [ Planche-carte à la dernière page du volume. ] [Carte] astronomique de l'étoile apparue l'année 1572. [ Représentation d'animaux, de villes, de soldats en armures, d'un roi et d'un ange. XVIè siècle.] [ Cote : BNF C 157235. ]

[Illustrations de Pantagruel, roy des Dipsodes, restitué à son naturel, avec des faictz et prouesses espoventables composez par feu M.Alcofribas, abstracteur de quinte essence.] / François Rabelais, aut. du texte

Comprend : [Fig. au Prologue de l'auteur, f.2]. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig. au chap. II, f.10 :] De la nativité du très redoubté Pantagruel. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig. au chap. V, f.18 :] Des faictz du noble Pantagruel en son jeune âge. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig. au chap. IX, f.35 intitulé :] Comment Pantagruel trouva Panurge lequel il ayma toute sa vie. [représentant Panurge et sa Dame de Paris]. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig. au chap. XI en reg. f.45 :] Comment les seigneurs de Baisecul et Bume vesne plaidoient devant Pantagruel sans advocatz.. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig. au chap. XII, f.48 :] Comment le seigneur de Bume vesne plaidoie davant Pantagruel. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig au chap. XIII, f.52 :] Comment Pantagruel donna sentence sus le différent des deux seigneurs. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig au chap. XXI, f.86 :] Comment Panurge feut amoureux d'une hauste dame de Paris. [Cote : microfilm R 9849] ; [Fig au chap. XXV, f.101 :] Comment Pantagruel et ses compaignons estoient fachez de manger de la chair salée, et comme Carpalim alla chasser pour avoir de la venaison. [Cote : microfilm R 9849]