Tchad : une mobilisation internationale sans précédent en faveur de l’éducation

Le Tchad, pays de 11,5 millions d’habitants à l’espérance de vie moyenne de 49,5 ans, aux trois-quarts rural, est entré dans l’ère pétrolière depuis 2002, multipliant par huit ses ressources budgétaires. Toutefois, le produit intérieur brut par habitant (823 $) et l’indice de développement humain (183e pays/187) restent faibles dans ce pays de jonction Est-Ouest et Nord-Centre de l’Afrique, au cœur de crises régionales (crises sahélienne, libyenne, soudanaise, centrafricaine et nord-nigériane..

Détermination des causes d’une baisse du rapport Albumine : globuline chez des chats en hypoprotéinémie

La réponse inflammatoire est composée d’un certain nombre de réaction (la fièvre, une leucocytose neutrophilique, etc). Il a déjà été montré que le rapport A/G était un bon marqueur de l’inflammation chez des chats lors de protidémie normale ou d’hyperportidémie. Dans une première partie bibliographique, nous nous intéressons aux variables cliniques et biologiques de l’inflammation accessibles aux cliniciens. Nous concluons cette partie sur l’intérêt diagnostic du rapport A/G lors de phénomène inflammatoire, justifiant l’intérêt de l’étude expérimentale. Notre étude comprend au final 33 chats en hypoprotidémie et présentant un rapport A/G inférieur à 0,8. Parmi ces chats, 28 (85%) ont reçu une fluidothérapie en intraveineuse durant leur hospitalisation. La présence de fluidothérapie intraveineuse ne nous permet pas de conclure sur l’origine de l’hypoprotidémie. De nouvelles études doivent être menées afin d’y répondr

Personality changes in patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy after surgical treatment : a 1-year follow-up study

Acord transformatiu CRUE-CSICObjective: To determine changes in dimensions of personality in a sample of patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy at the 1-year follow-up following surgery, compared to non-surgically treated controls. Methods: We conducted a prospective comparative controlled study, including drug-resistant epilepsy surgery candidates. Demographic, psychiatric, neurological, and psychological data were recorded. Presurgical and 12-months follow-up evaluations were performed. Personality dimensions were measured by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Revised version (NEO-FFI-R), anxiety and depression symptoms were assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS: HADA-Anxiety and HADD-Depression), psychiatric evaluations were performed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) Axis-I disorders classification. Statistical analysis consisted of comparative tests, correlation analysis, and the stepwise multiple regression test (ANOVA). Results: A 1-year follow-up was completed by 70 out of 80 patients. Through the study, the surgical group decreased in neuroticism and increased in agreeableness. The controls increased in consciousness, and these changes were predicted by the earlier age of epilepsy onset and lesser score in HADD at the baseline. No personality changes were associated with seizure frequency. The presurgical evaluation concluded that both groups had no differences in demographic, psychiatric, or neurological variables with the only exception being for the number of seizures per month, which was higher in the surgical group. Psychiatric comorbidity in patients was associated with their higher degree of neuroticism and agreeableness at the baseline. Comparing control and surgical groups at the one-year follow-up, the agreeableness personality variable was higher in the surgical group, and as expected, HADS scores were higher in the control group, and seizure frequency was also higher in the control group. Significance: Higher agreeableness was the most relevant difference in personality dimensions in patients who underwent surgical treatment compared with the non-surgical treatment group. After surgery patients decreased in neuroticism and increased in agreeableness scores

Influence of personality profile in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy on quality of life following surgical treatment : A 1-year follow-up study

Acord transformatiu CRUE-CSICThe objectives of this study are to determine the influence of personality profile in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy on quality of life (QoL) after surgical treatment and compare the results with a non-surgical control group at the 1-year follow-up. We conducted a prospective, comparative, controlled study, including 70 patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy. Demographic, psychiatric, neurological, and psychological data were recorded at the baseline and at the 1-year follow-up. Assessment of personality dimensions was performed using the NEO-FFI-R questionnaire; severity of anxiety and depression were assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and QoL was evaluated using the QOLIE-31. At the 1-year follow-up, comparing the control and the surgical groups, we detected differences in scores of most items of QoL, which were higher in those patients who had undergone surgery. High levels of Conscientiousness and Openness to experience at the baseline in patients who underwent surgery predicted better post-surgical outcomes in the QoL scores, whereas high neurotic patients showed worse QoL results. Postoperative changes in QoL in patients were associated with the personality profile at the baseline. QoL measures significantly improved in the surgical group compared with the non-surgical group but were not associated with baseline or postoperative seizure frequency at 1 year

Differentiating Abnormal, Normal, and Ideal Personality Profiles in Multidimensional Spaces

Current dimensional taxonomies of personality disorder (PD) establish that intense traits do not suffice to diagnose a disorder, and additional constructs reflecting dysfunction are required. However, traits appear able to predict maladaptation by themselves, which might avoid duplications and simplify diagnosis. On the other hand, if trait-based diagnoses are feasible, it is the whole personality profile that should be considered, rather than individual traits. This takes us into multidimensional spaces, which have their own particular - but poorly understood - logic. The present study examines how profile-level differences between normal and disordered subjects can be used for diagnosis. The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology - Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ) and the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) were administered to a community and a clinical sample each (total n = 1,925 and 3,543 respectively). Intense traits proved to be common in the general population, so empirically-based thresholds are indispensable not to take as abnormal what is at most unideal. Profile-level parameters such as Euclidean and Mahalanobis distances outperformed individual traits in predicting mental problems and equaled the performance of published measures of dysfunction or severity. Personality profiles can play a more central role in identifying disorders than is currently acknowledged, provided that adequate metrics are used

Epilepsy surgery in drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy associated with neuronal antibodies

We assessed the outcome of patients with drug resistant epilepsy and neuronal antibodies who underwent epilepsy surgery. Retrospective study, information collected with a questionnaire sent to epilepsy surgery centers. Thirteen patients identified, with antibodies to GAD (8), Ma2 (2), Hu (1), LGI1 (1) or CASPR2 (1). Mean age at seizure onset: 23 years. Five patients had an encephalitic phase. Three had testicular tumors and five had autoimmune diseases. All had drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (median: 20 seizures/month). MRI showed unilateral temporal lobe abnormalities (mainly hippocampal sclerosis) in 9 patients, bilateral abnormalities in 3, and was normal in 1. Surgical procedures included anteromesial temporal lobectomy (10 patients), selective amygdalohippocampectomy (1), temporal pole resection (1) and radiofrequency ablation of mesial structures (1). Perivascular lymphocytic infiltrates were seen in 7/12 patients. One year outcome available in all patients, at 3 years in 9. At last visit 5/13 patients (38.5%) (with Ma2, Hu, LGI1, and 2 GAD antibodies) were in Engel's classes I or II. Epilepsy surgery may be an option for patients with drug resistant seizures associated with neuronal antibodies. Outcome seems to be worse than that expected in other etiologies, even in the presence of unilateral HS. Intracranial EEG may be required in some patients

Couplages intercellulaires et rétrocontrôles mécaniques au cours de la morphogenèse

Un des mécanismes principaux de la morphogenèse des organismes est la contraction des réseaux d’actine sous l’effet du moteur moléculaire Myosine II. L’invagination de l’endoderme postérieur de Drosophila est causée par la contraction apicale des cellules par MyoII, mais la cause de sa déformation polarisée est inconnue. Nous avons découvert une vague de Rho1, MyoII et de déformation qui se propage à l’échelle du tissu et sous-tend la déformation de l’endoderme. MyoII est d’abord activée dans le primordium de l’endoderme par un ligand de GPCR, Fog. L’activation apicale de MyoII se propage ensuite à travers l’épithélium dorsal à 2.2 ± 0.2 µm/min. La dynamique de la vague n’est définie ni par les niveaux de Fog ni par leur motif d’expression. A la place, l’activité de MyoII est nécessaire pour l’activation intracellulaire de Rho1 et sa propagation à travers le tissu, indiquant une boucle de rétroaction. Des simulations d’un matériau viscoélastique contractile montrent qu’une boucle de rétroaction basée sur la tension peut générer une vague. Des perturbations de l’environnement mécanique du tissu avec des moyens génétiques ou mécaniques résultent en une augmentation de l’activité de MyoII et une diminution de la vitesse de la vague. Les déformations ou les forces du tissu procurent donc un rétrocontrôle sur l’activation de Rho1/MyoII lors de la vague, contrôlant sa dynamique. A l’échelle cellulaire, la vague de déformation implique la compression basale des cellules et l’étalement et l’adhésion du cortex apical sur la membrane vitelline, suivi d’un détachement. Ainsi la morphogenèse observée émerge de la propagation stimulée mécaniquement d’une vague de déformation 3D.One of the main mechanisms of organism morphogenesis is the contraction of actin filament networks powered by non-muscle Myosin II motor proteins (MyoII). Drosophila presumptive posterior endoderm invagination is caused by MyoII-dependent apical constriction, but the cause of its polarized deformation is unknown. We unravelled a tissue scale wave of high Rho1 and MyoII activation and deformation which underlies the polarized deformation of the endoderm. MyoII is first activated medio-apically in cells within the endoderm primordium by the GPCR ligand Fog. Subsequently, apical MyoII activation propagates across the dorsal epithelium at a constant speed of 2.2 ± 0.2 µm/min. MyoII wave dynamics are set neither by Fog levels nor expression pattern. Instead, both intracellular Rho1 activation and its propagation across the tissue require sustained MyoII activity, indicating a positive feedback from contractility into Rho1 activity. Through simulations of a contractile viscoelastic material we found that a stress-based feedback loop could generate a wave. Perturbations of the tissue mechanical environment with both genetic and physical means result in an increase in MyoII activity and a strong reduction of the wave speed. Tissue deformation or stress thus provides a feedback onto Rho1/MyoII activity during the wave, controlling its dynamics. At the cell scale, the deformation wave involves cells basal compression and apical cortex spreading and adhering onto the vitelline membrane, followed by de-adhesion, that correlates with MyoII activation and propagation within cells. Thus the observed morphogenesis emerges from a mechanically driven wave of 3D deformation

Vers une approche émancipatrice de l'enseignement du français aux migrants en contexte associatif

Many migrants turn to charities to learn French. Charities offer what are called « sociolinguistics workshops » to help migrants to learn the language, and help them to settle in their new environment. Based on questionnaires and interviews with teachers from different charities in Perpignan, this study tries to identify their views on the objectives of such sociolinguistics workshops in terms of language acquisition and social integration. On this basis, its aim is to study how these French workshops can tackle the double objective : answer the migrants’ linguistic needs and facilitate their social integration. The possible contributions of a popular education approach and emancipation pedagogies in order to enhance the appropriation of the language and to help the migrants to take their place in society will be examined.De nombreuses personnes en situation de migration se tournent vers le milieu associatif pour apprendre le français. Les associations proposent des ateliers sociolinguistiques dans le but d’accompagner les apprenants dans l’apprentissage de la langue, et de les aider à s’intégrer dans la société. A partir de questionnaires et d’entretiens recueillis auprès de formateurs de différentes associations de la ville de Perpignan, ce mémoire cherche à mettre au jour leurs représentations concernant les objectifs des ateliers sociolinguistiques (ASL) en termes d’acquisition de la langue et d’intégration, et à partir de là d’étudier comment ces ASL peuvent faire face au double objectif de répondre aux besoins linguistiques des personnes accueillies et de faciliter leur intégration sociale. Il s’agira ensuite d’examiner les apports possibles des démarches d’éducation populaire et des pédagogies émancipatrices afin de favoriser l’appropriation de la langue et d’aider les personnes accueillies à prendre leur place au sein de la société d’accueil

Mechanochemical Principles of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Cells and Tissues

International audiencePatterns are ubiquitous in living systems and underlie the dynamic organization of cells, tissues, and embryos. Mathematical frameworks have been devised to account for the self-organization of biological patterns, most famously the Turing framework. Patterns can be defined in space, for example, to form stripes; in time, such as during oscillations; or both, to form traveling waves. The formation of these patterns can have different origins: purely chemical, purely mechanical, or a combination of the two. Beyond the variety of molecular implementations of such patterns, we emphasize the unitary principles associated with them, across scales in space and time, within a general mechanochemical framework. We illustrate where such mechanisms of pattern formation arise in biological systems from cellular to tissue scales, with an emphasis on morphogenesis. Our goal is to convey a picture of pattern formation that draws attention to the principles rather than solely specific molecular mechanisms. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology Volume 38 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates

Mechanical regulation of substrate adhesion and de-adhesion drives a cell contractile wave during tissue morphogenesis

During morphogenesis tissue-scale forces drive large-scale deformations, yet how these forces arise from the local interplay between cellular contractility and adhesion is poorly understood. In the posterior endoderm of Drosophila embryos, a self-organized tissue-scale wave of actomyosin contractility and cell invagination is coupled with adhesion to the surrounding vitelline membrane to drive the polarized tissue deformation. We report here that this process emerges at the subcellular level from the mechanical coupling between Myosin-II activation and sequential adhesion/de-adhesion to the vitelline membrane. At the wavefront, integrin focal complexes anchor the actin cortex to the vitelline membrane and promote activation of Myosin-II, which in turn enhances adhesion in a positive feedback loop. Subsequently, upon detachment, cortex contraction and advective flow further amplify Myosin-II levels. Prolonged contact with the vitelline membrane increases the duration of the integrin-Myosin-II feedback, integrin adhesion and thus slows down cell detachment and wave propagation of the invagination. Finally, we show that the angle of cell detachment changes as a function of the strength of adhesion and modifies the tensile forces required for detachment to maintain wave propagation. This illustrates how the tissue-scale wave arises from subcellular mechanochemical feedbacks and tissue geometry