Mucosal Immunity in Toxoplasma Gondii Infection

Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that frequently infects a large spectrum of warm-blooded animals. This parasite induces abortion and establishes both chronic and silent infections, particularly in the brain. Parasite penetration into the host activates a strong anti-parasite immune response. In the present paper, we will discuss the interplay between innate and adaptive immunity that occurs within the infected intestine to clear the parasite and to maintain intestinal homeostasis despite the exacerbation of an inflammatory immune response

Effect of cooking temperature and cooking time on Warner-Bratzler tenderness measurement and collagen content in rabbit meat

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Scattering at an Interface Using Bloch Wave Theory: Application to Seismic Metamaterials

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Effect of selection on body size at fixed age on muscle characteristics in rabbit

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Efficiency of a reduced model of seismic metamaterials

International audienceIn the present work, we deal with both analytical/numerical and experimental modelings of seismic metamaterials, designed to protect buildings and civil infrastructures from incoming seismic waves. By using Floquet-Bloch transform, it is possible to strongly reduce the size of numerical model compared to a fully simulated model. Indeed, the numerical mod-eling comes down to the study of the eigenproblems defined on a primitive cell representative of the whole periodic medium. Existence of frequency bandgaps, one of the main issues of metamaterial, is analysed. Moreover, using reduced laboratory samples of soil with periodically distributed holes or concrete inclusions, actual efficiency of the studied seismic metamaterials is tested and compared with the analytical/numerical prediction. The comparison highlights the similarities observed between experimentally recorded transfer functions and numerically predicted bandgaps

Effect of selection on body size at fixed age on muscle characteristics in rabbit

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