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Université catholique de Louvain

EducationLouvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
About: Université catholique de Louvain is a education organization based out in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 25319 authors who have published 57360 publications receiving 2172080 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Louvain & UCLouvain.


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TL;DR: Two different morphometric analyses showed that in the LP neonate B-cell proliferation and islet size were reduced in the head of the pancreas and in the pancreatic tail, these parameters were also decreased but to a lesser extend.
Abstract: The administration of a low protein (LP, 8% protein/dry matter) but isocaloric diet to gestating rats did not affect their fertility, but slightly reduced the quantity of food intake as well as body weight gain. The LP diet also did not affect the placental weight, but the weight of the offspring was decreased. Accordingly the fetal endocrine pancreas was altered by the LP diet. Two different morphometric analyses showed that in the LP neonate B-cell proliferation and islet size were reduced in the head of the pancreas. In the pancreatic tail, these parameters were also decreased but to a lesser extend. Islet vascularization in the neonates was dramatically reduced in both parts of the pancreas when the mothers were fed with the LP diet.

658 citations

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TL;DR: Prebiotic supplementation was associated with an increase in plasma gut peptide concentrations (glucagon-like peptide 1 and peptide YY), which may contribute in part to changes in appetite sensation and glucose excursion responses after a meal in healthy subjects.

658 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a semilinear elliptic problem and proved the existence of a positive groundstate solution of the Choquard or nonlinear Schr\"odinger--Newton equation for an optimal range of parameters.

658 citations

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TL;DR: Magnetic resonance elastography has a higher technical success rate than ultrasoundElastography and a better diagnostic accuracy than ultrasound elastsography and APRI for staging liver fibrosis.

655 citations

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TL;DR: Prophylactic treatment with valacyclovir is a safe and effective way to prevent CMV disease after renal transplantation and decreased the rates of CMV viremia and viruria, herpes simplex virus disease, and the use of inpatient medical resources.
Abstract: Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease is a major complication of organ transplantation. We hypothesized that prophylactic treatment with valacyclovir would reduce the risk of CMV disease. Methods A total of 208 CMV-negative recipients of a kidney from a seropositive donor and 408 CMV-positive recipients were randomly assigned to receive either 2 g of valacyclovir or placebo orally four times daily for 90 days after transplantation, with the dose adjusted according to renal function. The primary end point was laboratory-confirmed CMV disease in the first six months after transplantation. Results Treatment with valacyclovir reduced the incidence or delayed the onset of CMV disease in both the seronegative patients (P<0.001) and the seropositive patients (P=0.03). Among the seronegative patients, the incidence of CMV disease 90 days after transplantation was 45 percent among placebo recipients and 3 percent among valacyclovir recipients. Among the seropositive patients, the respective values were 6 percent and 0 percent. At six months, the incidence of CMV disease was 45 percent among seronegative recipients of placebo and 16 percent among seronegative recipients of valacyclovir; it was 6 percent among seropositive placebo recipients and 1 percent among seropositive valacyclovir recipients. At six months, the rate of biopsy-confirmed acute graft rejection in the seronegative group was 52 percent among placebo recipients and 26 percent among valacyclovir recipients (P=0.001). Treatment with valacyclovir also decreased the rates of CMV viremia and viruria, herpes simplex virus disease, and the use of inpatient medical resources. Hallucinations and confusion were more common with valacyclovir treatment, but these events were not severe or treatment limiting. The rates of other adverse events were similar among the groups. Conclusions Prophylactic treatment with valacyclovir is a safe and effective way to prevent CMV disease after renal transplantation. (N Engl J Med 1999; 340:1462-70.) (C) 1999, Massachusetts Medical Society.

654 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Robert Langer2812324326306
Pulickel M. Ajayan1761223136241
Klaus Müllen1642125140748
Giacomo Bruno1581687124368
Willem M. de Vos14867088146
David Goldstein1411301101955
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski141126999607
Andrea Giammanco135136298093
Christophe Delaere135132096742
Vincent Lemaitre134131099190
Michael Tytgat134144994133
Jian Li133286387131
Jost B. Jonas1321158166510
George Stephans132133786865
Peter Hall132164085019
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023147
2022424
20212,952
20202,969
20192,752
20182,676