Apollonia d’Illyrie 2019. Rempart

Données scientifiques produites : Apollonia d’Illyrie par EFA Introduction Ce premier rapport spécifique pour l’étude du rempart d’Apollonia d’Illyrie prend la suite de ce qui en a été dit dans les rapports des campagnes 2017 et 2018. La reprise de l’étude du rempart entre dans le cadre d’un projet conduit à l’EFA depuis 2017, qui se fonde sur les avancées de l’équipe précédente, composée de C. Balandier, L. Koço et P. Lenhardt, dont les travaux ont fait l’objet d’un chapitre dans l’Atlas arc..

Les fortifications d'Apollonia d'Illyrie : nouvelles méthodes et nouveaux outils pour l'étude architecturale et historique

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Elastomeric cardiopatch scaffold for myocardial repair and ventricular support

[EN] OBJECTIVES: Prevention of postischaemic ventricular dilatation progressing towards pathological remodelling is necessary to decrease ventricular wall deterioration. Myocardial tissue engineering may play a therapeutic role due to its capacity to replace the extracellular matrix, thereby creating niches for cell homing. In this experimental animal study, a biomimetic cardiopatch was created with elastomeric scaffolds and nanotechnologies. METHODS: In an experimental animal study in 18 sheep, a cardiopatch was created with adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells seeded into an engineered bioimplant consisting of 3-dimensional bioabsorbable polycaprolactone scaffolds filled with a peptide hydrogel (PuraMatrix (TM)). This patch was then transplanted to cover infarcted myocardium. Non-absorbable poly(ethyl) acrylate polymer scaffolds were used as controls. RESULTS: Fifteen sheep were followed with ultrasound scans at 6 months, including echocardiography scans, tissue Doppler and spectral flow analysis and speckle-tracking imaging, which showed a reduction in longitudinal left ventricular deformation in the cardiopatch-treated group. Magnetic resonance imaging (late gadolinium enhancement) showed reduction of infarct size relative to left ventricular mass in the cardiopatch group versus the controls. Histopathological analysis at 6 months showed that the cardiopatch was fully anchored and integrated to the infarct area with minimal fibrosis interface, thereby promoting angiogenesis and migration of adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells to surrounding tissues. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows the feasibility and effectiveness of a cardiopatch grafted onto myocardial infarction scars in an experimental animal model. This treatment decreased fibrosis, limited infarct scar expansion and reduced postischaemic ventricular deformity. A capillary network developed between our scaffold and the heart. The elastomeric cardiopatch seems to have a positive impact on ventricular remodelling and performance in patients with heart failure.The RECATABI Project (Regeneration of Cardiac Tissue Assisted by Bioactive Implants) was financially supported by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. Project ID: 229239. Funded under FP7-NMP and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER Spain).Chachques, JC.; Lila, N.; Soler Botija, C.; Martínez-Ramos, C.; Vallés Lluch, A.; Autret, G.; Perier, M.... (2020). Elastomeric cardiopatch scaffold for myocardial repair and ventricular support. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 57(3):545-555. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezz252S545555573Madonna, R., Van Laake, L. W., Botker, H. E., Davidson, S. M., De Caterina, R., Engel, F. B., … Sluijter, J. P. G. (2019). ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart: position paper for Cardiovascular Research: tissue engineering strategies combined with cell therapies for cardiac repair in ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. Cardiovascular Research, 115(3), 488-500. doi:10.1093/cvr/cvz010Nielsen, S. H., Mouton, A. J., DeLeon-Pennell, K. Y., Genovese, F., Karsdal, M., & Lindsey, M. L. (2019). Understanding cardiac extracellular matrix remodeling to develop biomarkers of myocardial infarction outcomes. Matrix Biology, 75-76, 43-57. doi:10.1016/j.matbio.2017.12.001Spinale, F. G., Frangogiannis, N. G., Hinz, B., Holmes, J. W., Kassiri, Z., & Lindsey, M. L. (2016). Crossing Into the Next Frontier of Cardiac Extracellular Matrix Research. Circulation Research, 119(10), 1040-1045. doi:10.1161/circresaha.116.309916Chachques, J. C., Pradas, M. M., Bayes-Genis, A., & Semino, C. (2013). Creating the bioartificial myocardium for cardiac repair: challenges and clinical targets. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 11(12), 1701-1711. doi:10.1586/14779072.2013.854165Bayés-Genís, A., Gálvez-Montón, C., & Roura, S. (2016). Cardiac Tissue Engineering. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 68(7), 724-726. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2016.05.055Shafy, A., Fink, T., Zachar, V., Lila, N., Carpentier, A., & Chachques, J. C. (2012). Development of cardiac support bioprostheses for ventricular restoration and myocardial regeneration. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 43(6), 1211-1219. doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezs480Castells-Sala, C., Recha-Sancho, L., Llucià-Valldeperas, A., Soler-Botija, C., Bayes-Genis, A., & Semino, C. E. (2016). Three-Dimensional Cultures of Human Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue-Derived Progenitor Cells Based on RAD16-I Self-Assembling Peptide. Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 22(2), 113-124. doi:10.1089/ten.tec.2015.0270Martínez-Ramos, C., Rodríguez-Pérez, E., Garnes, M. P., Chachques, J. C., Moratal, D., Vallés-Lluch, A., & Monleón Pradas, M. (2014). Design and Assembly Procedures for Large-Sized Biohybrid Scaffolds as Patches for Myocardial Infarct. Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 20(10), 817-827. doi:10.1089/ten.tec.2013.0489Biswas, M., Sudhakar, S., Nanda, N. C., Buckberg, G., Pradhan, M., Roomi, A. U., … Houle, H. (2013). Two- and Three-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: Clinical Applications and Future Directions. Echocardiography, 30(1), 88-105. doi:10.1111/echo.12079Dorsey, S. M., McGarvey, J. R., Wang, H., Nikou, A., Arama, L., Koomalsingh, K. J., … Burdick, J. A. (2015). MRI evaluation of injectable hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel therapy to limit ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction. Biomaterials, 69, 65-75. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.08.011Chachques, J. C. (2009). Cellular cardiac regenerative therapy in which patients? Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 7(8), 911-919. doi:10.1586/erc.09.84Chachques, J. (1997). Dynamic cardiomyoplasty: clinical follow-up at 12 years. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 12(4), 560-568. doi:10.1016/s1010-7940(97)00214-5Varela, C. E., Fan, Y., & Roche, E. T. (2019). Optimizing Epicardial Restraint and Reinforcement Following Myocardial Infarction: Moving Towards Localized, Biomimetic, and Multitherapeutic Options. Biomimetics, 4(1), 7. doi:10.3390/biomimetics4010007Van den Borne, S. W. M., Cleutjens, J. P. M., Hanemaaijer, R., Creemers, E. E., Smits, J. F. M., Daemen, M. J. A. P., & Blankesteijn, W. M. (2009). Increased matrix metalloproteinase-8 and -9 activity in patients with infarct rupture after myocardial infarction. Cardiovascular Pathology, 18(1), 37-43. doi:10.1016/j.carpath.2007.12.012Ducharme, A., Frantz, S., Aikawa, M., Rabkin, E., Lindsey, M., Rohde, L. E., … Lee, R. T. (2000). Targeted deletion of matrix metalloproteinase-9 attenuates left ventricular enlargement and collagen accumulation after experimental myocardial infarction. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 106(1), 55-62. doi:10.1172/jci8768Sieminski, A. L., Semino, C. E., Gong, H., & Kamm, R. D. (2008). Primary sequence of ionic self-assembling peptide gels affects endothelial cell adhesion and capillary morphogenesis. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 87A(2), 494-504. doi:10.1002/jbm.a.31785Bagó, J. R., Soler-Botija, C., Casaní, L., Aguilar, E., Alieva, M., Rubio, N., … Blanco, J. (2013). Bioluminescence imaging of cardiomyogenic and vascular differentiation of cardiac and subcutaneous adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells in fibrin patches in a myocardium infarct model. International Journal of Cardiology, 169(4), 288-295. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.09.013Chachques, J. C., Trainini, J. C., Lago, N., Cortes-Morichetti, M., Schussler, O., & Carpentier, A. (2008). Myocardial Assistance by Grafting a New Bioartificial Upgraded Myocardium (MAGNUM Trial): Clinical Feasibility Study. 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Sex- and age-related differences in the management and outcomes of chronic heart failure: an analysis of patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long-Term Registry

Aims: This study aimed to assess age- and sex-related differences in management and 1-year risk for all-cause mortality and hospitalization in chronic heart failure (HF) patients. Methods and results: Of 16 354 patients included in the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Long-Term Registry, 9428 chronic HF patients were analysed [median age: 66 years; 28.5% women; mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 37%]. Rates of use of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) were high (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, beta-blockers and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists: 85.7%, 88.7% and 58.8%, respectively). Crude GDMT utilization rates were lower in women than in men (all differences: P\ua0 64 0.001), and GDMT use became lower with ageing in both sexes, at baseline and at 1-year follow-up. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT prescription; however, age >75 years was a significant predictor of GDMT underutilization. Rates of all-cause mortality were lower in women than in men (7.1% vs. 8.7%; P\ua0=\ua00.015), as were rates of all-cause hospitalization (21.9% vs. 27.3%; P\ua075 years. Conclusions: There was a decline in GDMT use with advanced age in both sexes. Sex was not an independent predictor of GDMT or adverse outcomes. However, age >75 years independently predicted lower GDMT use and higher all-cause mortality in patients with LVEF 6445%

Poursuite de la visite au musée gallo-romain de Fourvière

L’équipe en charge du volet vulgarisation du laboratoire ERAMA a réalisé une série de documents d’accompagnement à la visite des collections du Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière à Lyon. En partant d’une thématique conductrice des activités du laboratoire, à savoir la question de l’autorité dans l’Antiquité, nous avons orienté les documents sur les caractéristiques de Lyon en tant que capitale provinciale dans l’Empire romain. Il s’agit de partir de l’observation des objets et documents exposés ..

Du terrain et vers le terrain : documentation 3D à Apollonia en 2018 et projet de fouilles pour 2019

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Le fortificazioni di Apollonia d’Illiria: nuove metodologie di ricerca e strumenti per uno studio storico-architettonico

International audienceApollonia in Illyria was a colony founded by Kerkyreans and Corinthians around 600 BCE. It has been identified with the ruins in the neighborhood of the modern village of Pojani, in Albania, thanks to the fortifications, whose large sections could be seen by the first travelers and archaeologists. Since A. Gilliéron's first sketch in 1882, the study of the fortifications has been widely developed. In particular, C. Balandier, L. Koço and P. Lenhardt have produced a complete map of the walls in 2007 and they have paved the way for questions that still need to be answered. Since 2017 a new study of the fortifications of Apollonia is in progress, under the supervision of N. Genis. The visual documentation of the walls, gates and towers, is being improved, especially with the support of 3D photogrammetry. New drawings (plans and elevations) will be done to document, study and understand the most important features and the construction techniques used at the same time or successively. Stratigraphic surveys and open-area excavations are planned for the next years in the sector of the NorthEast Gate, at the interface between the wall and several quarters. These new operations aim at giving answers to the main questions about the fortifications of Apollonia: date of the construction and of the different phases in the walls themselves, link between the fortifications and the history of the city, interaction of the walls with the inside town-planning.Apollonia d’Illiria fu fondata da gruppi di coloni provenienti da Corcira e Corinto intorno al 600 a.C. L’identificazione del sito nei dintorni dell’attuale centro di Pojani, in Albania, é stata resa possibile grazie alla presenza delle fortificazioni della città, i cui resti erano già visibili ai primi viaggiatori ed archeologi.A partire da un primo schizzo disegnato da A. Gilliéron nel 1882, lo studio delle fortificazioni ha conosciuto un ampio sviluppo. Più precisamente, nel 2007 C. Balandier, L. Koço e P. Lenhardt hanno realizzato una pianta completa delle mura, sollevando questioni ed interrogativi che necessitano tuttora di una risposta. Dal 2017 é attivo un nuovo progetto di studio sulle fortificazioni di Apollonia sotto la supervisione del dott. N. Genis. La documentazione visiva delle mura, delle porte monumentali e delle torri é tuttora in corso, e si avvale del supporto della tecnica del rilievo fotogrammetrico in 3D. La realizzazione di nuovi disegni - piante e prospetti - permetterà di documentarne e studiarne le caratteristiche principali, come anche di comprendere le tecniche costruttive adottate contemporaneamente o successivamente. A tal riguardo, il progetto dei prossimi anni prevede rilievi stratigrafici e scavi a cielo aperto nell’area della Porta Nord-Est, in particolare verso l’interfaccia tra il muro e i differenti quartieri.Queste nuove operazioni si prefiggono di risolvere i principali interrogativi relativi alle fortificazioni di Apollonia: dalla cronologia della costruzione e delle diverse fasi della cinta muraria stessa, alla relazione delle mura con l’urbanistica interna e, ad uno spettro più ampio, con la storia della città

Les fortifications d'Apollonia d'Illyrie : nouvelles méthodes et nouveaux outils pour l'étude architecturale et historique

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How to date fortifications? Architecture, Poliorcetics and Civic History in Apollonia in Illyria and in Boeotia: The fortifications of Apollonia in Illyria: Problems of chronology

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