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Agrocampus Ouest
Education•Rennes, France•
About: Agrocampus Ouest is a education organization based out in Rennes, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Soil water. The organization has 2160 authors who have published 3219 publications receiving 75606 citations. The organization is also known as: Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage & Higher Institute for agricultural sciences, food industry, horticulture and landscape management.
Topics: Population, Soil water, Casein, Lactation, Context (language use)
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with policy mechanism designs for agri-environmental schemes when the bio-physical processes are characterised by threshold effects, where specified farming practices must be applied on a minimal share of an area of interest to trigger perceptible changes of the state of the natural environment.
Abstract: This paper deals with policy mechanism designs for agri-environmental schemes when the bio-physical processes are characterised by threshold effects. There is a threshold effect when specified farming practices must be applied on a minimal share of an area of interest to trigger perceptible changes of the state of the natural environment. Schemes result in a pure economic loss if the induced agri-environmental efforts are not sufficient. Different situations are considered, including the lack of information on farmers' characteristics or actions, uncertainty on the relationship between farming practices and environmental quality, and combined difficulties of scheme design.
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TL;DR: A spectrophotometric method using the mutant Escherichia coli ML-35p has been adapted to investigate membrane disruption by lysozyme for long durations and a direct delayed activity of lyso enzyme against the inner membrane is demonstrated, but without evidence of perforations.
Abstract: Natural preservatives answer the consumer demand for long shelf life foods, synthetic molecules being perceived as a health risk. Lysozyme is already used because of its muramidase activity against Gram-positive bacteria. It is also described as active against some Gram-negative bacteria; membrane disruption would be involved, but the mechanism remains unknown. In this study, a spectrophotometric method using the mutant Escherichia coli ML-35p has been adapted to investigate membrane disruption by lysozyme for long durations. Lysozyme rapidly increases the permeability of the outer membrane of E. coli due to large size pore formation. A direct delayed activity of lysozyme against the inner membrane is also demonstrated, but without evidence of perforations.
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TL;DR: In individuals who are in the early stages of disease onset, C1q activation may reflect the formation of immune complexes with non-casein- or non-gluten-related antigens, the presence of C1Q autoantibodies, and/or a dissociated state of immune complex components.
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TL;DR: In these new fermented dairy products, dairy propionibacteria remained viable and stress-tolerant in vitro during minimum 15 days at 4 °C and results in the design of a new food grade vector, which will allow preclinical and clinical trials.
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TL;DR: It is found that the embryos’ tolerance to the induced pathogen stress was linked to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of their parents, i.e. certain MHC genotypes appeared to provide better protection against infection than others and significant additive genetic variance for stress tolerance.
Abstract: Mating with attractive or dominant males is often predicted to offer indirect genetic benefits to females, but it is still largely unclear how important such non-random mating can be with regard to embryo viability. We sampled a natural population of adult migratory brown trout (Salmo trutta), bred them in vitro in a half-sib breeding design to separate genetic from maternal environmental effects, raised 2098 embryos singly until hatching, and exposed them experimentally to different levels of pathogen stress at a late embryonic stage. We found that the embryos' tolerance to the induced pathogen stress was linked to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of their parents, i.e. certain MHC genotypes appeared to provide better protection against infection than others. We also found significant additive genetic variance for stress tolerance. Melanin-based dark skin patterns revealed males with 'good genes', i.e. embryos fathered by dark coloured males had a high tolerance to infection. Mating with large and dominant males would, however, not improve embryo viability when compared to random mating. We used simulations to provide estimates of how mate choice based on MHC or melanin-based skin patterns would influence embryos' tolerance to the experimentally induced pathogen stress.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Jean Noblet | 62 | 213 | 11131 |
Jean-Pierre Renou | 58 | 206 | 11894 |
J. F. Le Borgne | 55 | 172 | 13954 |
Jean-Christophe Simon | 47 | 159 | 7226 |
Pierre Duhamel | 46 | 513 | 12627 |
Luc Delaby | 43 | 226 | 4880 |
Jacques Baudry | 43 | 150 | 7564 |
Jean-Yves Dourmad | 43 | 116 | 4770 |
Didier Dupont | 42 | 195 | 8137 |
Daniel Mollé | 41 | 111 | 5915 |
Gwénaël Jan | 41 | 104 | 4798 |
Sylvain Gaillard | 41 | 124 | 4917 |
Michel Bonneau | 40 | 162 | 4777 |
Jean-Paul Lallès | 39 | 149 | 6846 |
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux | 39 | 117 | 4520 |