Un Orient proche. Les volontés du Ciel dans Les Mille et Une Nuits

Les références des Mille et Une Nuits d’Antoine Galland aux volontés du Ciel ne relèvent pas d’un quelconque exotisme et moins encore d’une mise en perspective critique puisqu’elles rejoignent en somme les postures coutumières du christianisme d’Ancien Régime devant les décrets de la Providence. L’originalité des Nuits serait essentiellement dans la présence assez insistante de ces postures, que la plupart des romanciers contemporains indiquent rarement en vertu du tabou bien connu qui interdisait de trop évoquer les réalités de la foi dans le cadre frivole de la fiction. L’islam et l’idolâtrie ne commandant pas la même discrétion, Antoine Galland finit par proposer, fût-ce sans vraiment s’y appliquer et par des touches le plus souvent incidentes, une image assez complète de la culture de la soumission qui est un trait anthropologique majeur des religions traditionnelles.References made to Fatality in Galland’s Arabian Nights are not really exotic and do even less suggest any “philosophical” criticism of the Will of Heaven. They reflect on the contrary very widespread attitudes in the European Ancien Régime Christianity. The real originality of the Nights consists rather in their instance on these largely shared postures of submission: in the beginning of the 18th century, modal French novelists merely avoided any references to specific devotional attitudes in the notoriously frivolous context of fiction. The Islamic setting of the Nights absolves Galland from this traditional reverential preterition

Mechanisms contributing to visceral hypersensitivity : focus on splanchnic afferent nerve signalling

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Deiteren, A., De Man, J. G., Keating, C., Jiang, W., De Schepper, H. U., Pelckmans, P. A., Francque, S. M. and De Winter, B. Y. (2015), Mechanisms contributing to visceral hypersensitivity: focus on splanchnic afferent nerve signaling. Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 27: 1709–1720, which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/nmo.12667. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Visceral hypersensitivity is a main characteristic of functional bowel disorders and is mediated by both peripheral and central factors. We investigated whether enhanced splanchnic afferent signaling in vitro is associated with visceral hypersensitivity in vivo in an acute and postinflammatory rat model of colitis.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Worms and the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: are molecules the answer?

The lack of exposure to helminth infections, as a result of improved living standards and medical conditions, may have contributed to the increased incidence of IBD in the developed world. Epidemiological, experimental, and clinical data sustain the idea that helminths could provide protection against IBD. Studies investigating the underlying mechanisms by which helminths might induce such protection have revealed the importance of regulatory pathways, for example, regulatory T-cells. Further investigation on how helminths influence both innate and adaptive immune reactions will shed more light on the complex pathways used by helminths to regulate the hosts immune system. Although therapy with living helminths appears to be effective in several immunological diseases, the disadvantages of a treatment based on living parasites are explicit. Therefore, the identification and characterization of helminth-derived immunomodulatory molecules that contribute to the protective effect could lead to new therapeutic approaches in IBD and other immune diseases

Bibliotheca antigua de los escritores aragoneses que florecieron desde la venida de Christo hasta el año 1500

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