Publications by authors named "Blot F"

Awareness of air pollution and the associated environmental and health risks is growing worldwide. In order to answer the socio-environmental challenges posed by climate change, natural resource degradation and industrialization, scientists are advocating more holistic research linking environmental quality and public health. However, few studies have managed to integrate local communities' concerns and knowledge with easy-to-use biomonitoring systems to produce science that contextualises their environment risk.

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Background: Early palliative care interventions in oncology, as recommended by international oncology societies, promote patient understanding and support decision-making. At the same time, shared decision-making models are being developed to enhance patient participation as part of a new model of patient-physician relationship. For patients with palliative needs, this participation is essential and helps to avoid futile and aggressive treatments at the end of life.

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In oncology, the place of patients has a natural and strong legitimacy. Cancer is a common disease, with many singularities but also common features between pathologies, with issues ranging from prevention to possible palliative phases or post-cancer, and conducive to both individual and collective decision-making processes. Patient engagement is now essential at all levels of the healthcare system, from simple information to real involvement (co-construction).

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  • - The study investigates the knowledge and opinions of healthcare providers in France regarding end-of-life care, particularly medical assistance in dying, amidst ongoing societal debates.
  • - A survey was conducted at a cancer center, revealing that while healthcare professionals are well-informed about end-of-life procedures, many believe that advance directives should be routinely collected and that there is a need for better training in this area.
  • - Results also show that while most professionals differentiate between euthanasia and deep continuous sedation, there isn't a clear consensus on the willingness to practice euthanasia if made legal, highlighting a need for enhanced support in palliative care training.
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Optogenetics opened the door to a new era of neuroscience. New optical developments are under way to enable high-resolution neuronal activity imaging and selective photostimulation of neuronal ensembles in freely moving animals. These advancements could allow researchers to interrogate, with cellular precision, functionally relevant neuronal circuits in the framework of naturalistic brain activity.

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ETHICAL ISSUES. Shared decision-making is a decision-making model and a model of interaction between healthcare professionals and healthcare users. Putting together medical-scientific data, experience, values and preferences of the caregiver on the one hand, and knowledge, needs, expectations, values andpreferences of the patient on the other, leads, if both parties wish so, to a discussion followed by a decision based on a common agreement.

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  • The classification of neuronal subpopulations has improved, but their impact on behavior is still unclear.
  • This study focuses on the flocculus in the cerebellum and discovers distinct subpopulations of Purkinje cells that have varying properties and play unique roles in movement.
  • Optogenetic stimulation shows that these Purkinje cells generate movements around the same axis but with different movement characteristics, indicating they work in separate circuits to influence specific movement parameters.
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Introduction: Shared-decision making (SDM) combines clinical expertise of the healthcare professional with patient's knowledge, values and preferences. This survey explores from a patient perspective, the implementation, facilitators and barriers of SDM in oncology in France in 2021.

Patients And Methods: From August to October 2021, the digital platform Cancer contribution conducted an online survey relayed by 11 patient associations.

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Purpose: Collegial support meetings (CSM) have been set up in the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center for inpatients whose complex care requires a multi-professional approach involving many participants: oncologists but also health-caregivers, a member of the palliative care team, an intensivist, and a psychologist. This study is aimed at describing the role of this newly multidisciplinary meeting implemented in a French Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Methods: Each week, the health-caregivers decide which situations should be examined, depending on the difficulty of a case.

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Two-photon, single-cell resolution optogenetics based on holographic light-targeting approaches enables the generation of precise spatiotemporal neuronal activity patterns and thus a broad range of experimental applications, such as high throughput connectivity mapping and probing neural codes for perception. Yet, current holographic approaches limit the resolution for tuning the relative spiking time of distinct cells to a few milliseconds, and the achievable number of targets to 100-200, depending on the working depth. To overcome these limitations and expand the capabilities of single-cell optogenetics, we introduce an ultra-fast sequential light targeting (FLiT) optical configuration based on the rapid switching of a temporally focused beam between holograms at kHz rates.

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Introduction: In France, advance directives (AD) remain unknown and underused by healthcare users and professionals. This is particularly true in oncology. This work was carried out with patients and caregivers of a Comprehensive Cancer Center to improve their appropriation and information.

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Background & Aims: Enteroendocrine cells (EECs) and their hormones are essential regulators of whole-body energy homeostasis. EECs sense luminal nutrients and microbial metabolites and subsequently secrete various hormones acting locally or at a distance. Impaired development of EECs during embryogenesis is life-threatening in newborn mice and humans due to compromised nutrient absorption.

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Background: Since 2016, France is the only country in the World where continuous deep sedation until death (CDSUD) is regulated by law. CDSUD serves as a response to refractory suffering in palliative situations where the patients' death is expected to occur in the following hours or days. Little is known on the psychological adjustment surrounding a CDSUD procedure for healthcare providers (HCPs) and relatives.

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We developed a flexible two-photon microendoscope (2P-FENDO) capable of all-optical brain investigation at near cellular resolution in freely moving mice. The system performs fast two-photon (2P) functional imaging and 2P holographic photostimulation of single and multiple cells using axially confined extended spots. Proof-of-principle experiments were performed in freely moving mice co-expressing jGCaMP7s and the opsin ChRmine in the visual or barrel cortex.

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We present the evolution of patient-centered care (PCC) and shared decision-making (SDM) in France since 2017, highlighting advantages and drawbacks of their implementation at the macro level. We then focus on several key policy and legislative milestones that are aimed to develop PCC and SDM. These milestones underline the importance of patient movements to support and fund the development of research and practice in the field.

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Background: For cancer patients, life-threatening complications may be difficult to anticipate, which can lead to complex medical decision-making processes. Since 2015, the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center has used a Decision-Aid Form (DAF), which contains an estimated gradation of care in cases where patients' conditions worsen. In this study, we assessed the acceptability of the DAF and the predictive value of the proposed stratification of care with regard to care delivered and patient's outcomes.

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  • The study investigates the uneven degeneration of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, exploring how sphingolipid metabolism might contribute to this issue in various neurological conditions.* -
  • Researchers found that different regions of the cerebellum have varying levels of sphingosine kinase 1 and sphingosine-1-phosphate, which play a role in the health of Purkinje cells.* -
  • In a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, deleting specific genes linked to sphingolipid metabolism showed a protective effect against Purkinje cell degeneration, indicating a direct connection between these lipids and neurodegeneration.*
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Axonal plasticity allows neurons to control their output, which critically determines the flow of information in the brain. Axon diameter can be regulated by activity, yet how morphological changes in an axon impact its function remains poorly understood. Axonal swellings have been found on Purkinje cell axons in the cerebellum both in healthy development and in neurodegenerative diseases, and computational models predicts that axonal swellings impair axonal function.

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  • Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex are diverse and their degeneration patterns differ across subpopulations, with some, such as AldoC-expressing cells, showing relative sparing in certain mouse models for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1).
  • A specific mouse model expressing mutant ATXN1 (82Q) revealed that Purkinje cells in the vestibulo-cerebellum are less affected by pathology, both lacking key signs of degeneration and showing no expression of the mutant protein.
  • Despite significant pathology in some cerebellar areas, functional tests indicated that certain preserved regions maintain enough functionality, suggesting a robust cerebellar reserve,
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Objectives: Anxiety results from the anticipation of a threat and might be associated with poor outcome in the critically ill. This study aims at showing that anxiety at admission in critically ill patients is associated with new organ failure over the first 7 days of ICU hospitalization independently of baseline organ failure at admission.

Design: Prospective multicenter cohort study.

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