Publications by authors named "C Szczepaniak"

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  • The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador emitted ash between 1999 and 2016, significantly affecting local rural areas, but its health impacts are not well documented.
  • Researchers focused on the intense eruptive phase of August 16-17, 2006, mapping ash size distributions and analyzing a specific ash sample for its respiratory health effects.
  • Their findings indicate high amounts of inhalable ash, with complex characteristics, resulting in minimal cell damage but some cell changes and a weak pro-inflammatory response in lung cells.
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Introduction: Ischaemic stroke is the leading cause of adult disability. Thus, a strategy based on an efficient antiplatelet therapy has been developed. The monitoring of antiplatelet therapy is now limited to high risk and poor prognosis patients.

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Triple-Negative Basal-Like tumors, representing 15 to 20% of breast cancers, are very aggressive and with poor prognosis. Targeted therapies have been developed extensively in preclinical and clinical studies to open the way for new treatment strategies. The present study has focused on developing 3D cell cultures from SUM1315 and MDA-MB-231, two triple-negative basal-like (TNBL) breast cancer cell lines, using the liquid overlay technique.

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Clinical data and experimental studies suggest that bronchial epithelium could serve as a portal of entry for invasive fungal infections. We therefore analyzed the interactions between molds and the bronchial/bronchiolar epithelium at the early steps after inhalation. We developed invasive aspergillosis (Aspergillus fumigatus) and mucormycosis (Lichtheimia corymbifera) murine models that mimic the main clinical risk factors for these infections.

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