Publications by authors named "L FAURE"
The ability to distinguish between individuals is crucial for social species and supports behaviors such as reproduction, hierarchy formation, and cooperation. In rodents, social discrimination relies on memory and the recognition of individual-specific cues, known as "individual signatures". While olfactory signals are central, other sensory cues - such as auditory, visual, and tactile inputs - also play a role.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenewal of the catecholamine-secreting chromaffin cell population of the adrenal medulla is necessary for physiological homeostasis throughout life. Definitive evidence for the presence or absence of an adrenomedullary stem cell has been enigmatic. In this work, we demonstrate that a subset of sustentacular cells endowed with a support role, are in fact adrenomedullary stem cells.
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- The study investigates the link between pregnancy-related factors and the risk of childhood lymphoma, focusing on non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in a large French case-control analysis.
- Results indicate that maternal coffee and alcohol consumption during pregnancy, as well as paternal smoking, are associated with an increased risk of childhood NHL, with a dose-response relation seen in coffee intake.
- The research suggests that understanding these associations can improve knowledge of childhood lymphoma aetiology, although further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Cell shape and function are intimately linked, in a way that is mediated by the forces exerted between cells and their environment. The relationship between cell shape and forces has been extensively studied for cells seeded on flat 2D substrates, but not for cells in more physiological 3D settings. Here, a technique called 3D micropatterned traction force microscopy (3D-µTFM) to confine cells in 3D wells of defined shape, while simultaneously measuring the forces transmitted between cells and their microenvironment is demonstrated.
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- Body size significantly influences biological functions, including locomotion, which is essential for understanding competitive dynamics, especially among juvenile animals.
- This study examines the growth of hind limb muscles in two baboon species (olive baboons and Guinea baboons) to assess size and age-related changes in their locomotor systems.
- Results indicate that while there are no sexual differences in growth patterns, the olive baboon exhibits isometric scaling of muscle mass, while the Guinea baboon shows allometric scaling, which may relate to differences in adult body size and locomotor independence.