Publications by authors named "E Bouchard"
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- The risk of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases transmitted from animals to humans, is particularly high for individuals in close contact with both domestic and wild animals, especially in remote Arctic regions.
- Approximately 75% of human infectious diseases are zoonotic, and the potential health impacts increase in areas with limited healthcare access and disease surveillance.
- The Arctic is facing changes from pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss, which heighten the risk of these diseases, necessitating a One Health approach that integrates human, animal, and environmental health to address these challenges effectively.
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- Non-invasive neurostimulation techniques, such as vibration and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are explored for their potential to understand sensorimotor issues in painful conditions like shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS).
- A study involving 15 SIS patients and 15 healthy individuals tested proprioceptive processing through vibration and corticospinal excitability using TMS, collecting detailed data and noting any practical challenges.
- Results showed that while vibration was generally well-tolerated, TMS faced significant difficulties, limiting data collection, and highlighted challenges like discomfort and high thresholds among SIS patients, providing insights for future studies on neurostimulation in musculoskeletal disorders.
Predators in food webs are valuable sentinel species for zoonotic and multi-host pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii. This protozoan parasite is ubiquitous in warm-blooded vertebrates, and can have serious adverse effects in immunocompromised hosts and foetuses. In northern ecosystems, T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represented a formidable scientific and technological challenge to public health due to its rapid spread and evolution. To meet these challenges and to characterize the virus over time, the State of California established the California SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Initiative, or "California COVIDNet". This initiative constituted an unprecedented multi-sector collaborative effort to achieve large-scale genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across California to monitor the spread of variants within the state, to detect new and emerging variants, and to characterize outbreaks in congregate, workplace, and other settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMyelination by oligodendrocytes is critical for fast axonal conduction and for the support and survival of neurons in the central nervous system. Recent studies have emphasized that myelination is plastic and that new myelin is formed throughout life. Nonetheless, the mechanisms that regulate the number, length, and location of myelin sheaths formed by individual oligodendrocytes are incompletely understood.
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