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About: University of Paris is a education organization based out in Paris, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 102426 authors who have published 174180 publications receiving 5041753 citations. The organization is also known as: Sorbonne.
Topics: Population, Medicine, Context (language use), Transplantation, Gene
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TL;DR: In this article, a 13,000-yr record from Sumxi Co (western Tibet), constructed from both lake-core and shoreline studies, shows that conditions in the early-middle Holocene were warmer and wetter than at present.
Abstract: ALTHOUGH the Tibetan plateau is important in influencing the atmospheric circulation of the Northern Hemisphere1–3, there are only a few continuous palaeoclimate records available, and these are limited to the plateau's northeastern margin4–6. Here we present a 13,000-yr record from Sumxi Co (western Tibet), constructed from both lake-core and shoreline studies, which shows that conditions in the early–middle Holocene were warmer and wetter than at present. These results confirm model predictions of an intensified monsoon over the region at ∼9,000 yr BP, owing to an orbitally induced increase in summer insolation7,8. We also find evidence for warm, humid pulses at ∼12,500 and ∼10,000 yr BP, in phase with the steps of the last deglaciation, and for a return to cold, dry conditions at ∼11-10,000 yr BP, none of which can be explained by orbital variations. The existence of the cold episode confirms that the cooling associated with the Younger Dry as event occurred in continental China6,9, and provides further evidence of the global nature of this event10
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TL;DR: Recommendations for conducting clinical trials in AAV deal with the following areas related to clinical studies of vasculitis: definitions of disease, activity states, outcome measures, eligibility criteria, trial design including relevant end points, and biomarkers.
Abstract: Objectives: To develop the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for conducting clinical studies and/or clinical trials in systemic vasculitis. Methods: An expert consensus group was formed consisting of rheumatologists, nephrologists and specialists in internal medicine representing five European countries and the USA, a clinical epidemiologist and representatives from regulatory agencies. Using an evidence-based and expert opinion-based approach in accordance with the standardised EULAR operating procedures, the group identified nine topics for a systematic literature search through a modified Delphi technique. On the basis of research questions posed by the group, recommendations were derived for conducting clinical studies and/or clinical trials in systemic vasculitis. Results: Based on the results of the literature research, the expert committee concluded that sufficient evidence to formulate guidelines on conducting clinical trials was available only for anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitides (AAV). It was therefore decided to focus the recommendations on these diseases. Recommendations for conducting clinical trials in AAV were elaborated and are presented in this summary document. It was decided to consider vasculitis-specific issues rather than general issues of trial methodology. The recommendations deal with the following areas related to clinical studies of vasculitis: definitions of disease, activity states, outcome measures, eligibility criteria, trial design including relevant end points, and biomarkers. A number of aspects of trial methodology were deemed important for future research. Conclusions: On the basis of expert opinion, recommendations for conducting clinical trials in AAV were formulated. Furthermore, the expert committee identified a strong need for well-designed research in non-AAV systemic vasculitides.
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TL;DR: A mechanism for apoptotic cell extrusion is proposed: spontaneously formed topological defects in epithelia govern cell fate, and the ability to control extrusion hotspots by geometrically inducing defects through microcontact printing of patterned monolayers is demonstrated.
Abstract: Epithelial tissues (epithelia) remove excess cells through extrusion, preventing the accumulation of unnecessary or pathological cells. The extrusion process can be triggered by apoptotic signalling, oncogenic transformation and overcrowding of cells. Despite the important linkage of cell extrusion to developmental, homeostatic and pathological processes such as cancer metastasis, its underlying mechanism and connections to the intrinsic mechanics of the epithelium are largely unexplored. We approach this problem by modelling the epithelium as an active nematic liquid crystal (that has a long range directional order), and comparing numerical simulations to strain rate and stress measurements within monolayers of MDCK (Madin Darby canine kidney) cells. Here we show that apoptotic cell extrusion is provoked by singularities in cell alignments in the form of comet-shaped topological defects. We find a universal correlation between extrusion sites and positions of nematic defects in the cell orientation field in different epithelium types. The results confirm the active nematic nature of epithelia, and demonstrate that defect-induced isotropic stresses are the primary precursors of mechanotransductive responses in cells, including YAP (Yes-associated protein) transcription factor activity, caspase-3-mediated cell death, and extrusions. Importantly, the defect-driven extrusion mechanism depends on intercellular junctions, because the weakening of cell-cell interactions in an α-catenin knockdown monolayer reduces the defect size and increases both the number of defects and extrusion rates, as is also predicted by our model. We further demonstrate the ability to control extrusion hotspots by geometrically inducing defects through microcontact printing of patterned monolayers. On the basis of these results, we propose a mechanism for apoptotic cell extrusion: spontaneously formed topological defects in epithelia govern cell fate. This will be important in predicting extrusion hotspots and dynamics in vivo, with potential applications to tissue regeneration and the suppression of metastasis. Moreover, we anticipate that the analogy between the epithelium and active nematic liquid crystals will trigger further investigations of the link between cellular processes and the material properties of epithelia.
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TL;DR: Strichartz inequalities for the wave equation are estimates of the solution u of the Cauchy problem for that equation, in the form of space-time integral norms, in terms of similar norms of the inhomogeneity f and of suitable norm of the initial data.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Guido Kroemer | 236 | 1404 | 246571 |
David H. Weinberg | 183 | 700 | 171424 |
Paul M. Thompson | 183 | 2271 | 146736 |
Chris Sander | 178 | 713 | 233287 |
Sophie Henrot-Versille | 171 | 957 | 157040 |
Richard H. Friend | 169 | 1182 | 140032 |
George P. Chrousos | 169 | 1612 | 120752 |
Mika Kivimäki | 166 | 1515 | 141468 |
Martin Karplus | 163 | 831 | 138492 |
William J. Sandborn | 162 | 1317 | 108564 |
Darien Wood | 160 | 2174 | 136596 |
Monique M.B. Breteler | 159 | 546 | 93762 |
Paul Emery | 158 | 1314 | 121293 |
Wolfgang Wagner | 156 | 2342 | 123391 |
Joao Seixas | 153 | 1538 | 115070 |