Publications by authors named "A S Longin"

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  • Injuries from falls are a major reason for failure in French Navy Special Forces selection, prompting the investigation into how posture may help predict individual fall-related injury risks.
  • Before the selection course, the postures of 99 male soldiers were analyzed using static posturography while they balanced with their eyes closed, guiding the development of a machine learning model to predict fall injuries.
  • The model demonstrated a predictive accuracy of 69.9%, indicating potential for using posture assessment in enhancing risk evaluation for fall-related injuries in military training, with implications for tailored prevention programs.
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Background: mutations occur in approximately 40% of patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer. The PI3Kα-specific inhibitor alpelisib has shown antitumor activity in early studies.

Methods: In a randomized, phase 3 trial, we compared alpelisib (at a dose of 300 mg per day) plus fulvestrant (at a dose of 500 mg every 28 days and once on day 15) with placebo plus fulvestrant in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who had received endocrine therapy previously.

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The nuclear envelope possesses specific ion channels that regulate the ionic traffic between the cytoplasm or the perinuclear space and the nucleoplasm. Using the patch-clamp technique to isolated rat nuclei exhibiting only the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope, we report the existence of calcium and zinc permeant channels. These channels displayed similar characteristics (conductance : 8 and 11 pS respectively, open time constant (3.

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To ascertain the ability of commercial and home-made anti-fading media to reduce the decrease of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) fluorescence, we studied the bleaching characteristics of FITC-stained Reh 6 cells mounted in buffered glycerol and in anti-fading media. We measured the intensity of fluorescence over time with a confocal laser scanning microscope and a standard epifluorescence microscope coupled to an image analysis system. Most of the anti-fading media effectively retard fading but each has drawbacks.

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Background: In previous studies, the authors demonstrated the value of the monoclonal antibody (MoAb) BL2-10D1 in identifying malignant transitional cells. In this study, the authors evaluate the possible diagnostic value of a murine MoAb, BL2-10D1, raised against human bladder cancer in the determination of the urothelial origin of metastases in a series of 29 patients with metastatic bladder or prostatic carcinoma.

Methods: Using an immunoperoxidase method, BL2-10D1 and anti-prostate-specific antigen (anti-PSA) reactivity were studied, using histologic sections from 18 pelvic lymph nodes and 4 other anatomic sites invaded by transitional cell cancer, and from 7 pelvic lymph nodes containing prostatic cancer.

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