Publications by authors named "M Berthome"
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- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treated with infliximab or vedolizumab showed a COVID-19 prevalence similar to the general French population before vaccinations, with only 4.5% confirmed cases.
- Factors increasing COVID-19 risk included using public transport and living in urban settings, while treatment type or disease activity did not affect infection rates.
- Recommendations suggest that maintaining sanitary barrier measures is essential for IBD patients on biological therapies to minimize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The Smart Grid (SG) aims to transform the current electric grid into a "smarter" network where the integration of renewable energy resources, energy efficiency and fault tolerance are the main benefits. This is done by interconnecting every energy source, storage point or central control point with connected devices, where heterogeneous SG applications and signalling messages will have different requirements in terms of reliability, latency and priority. Hence, data routing and prioritization are the main challenges in such networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) are used to prepare human EBV-specific T lymphocytes (EBV-CTL) in vitro. Within an LCL, up to 5-7% the cells release infectious EBV, and this has fostered safety concerns for therapeutic applications because of the exposure of T cells to EBV. The release of infectious viruses can be prevented by ganciclovir, but this drug may seriously affect LCL growth.
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- Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are rapidly growing in popularity as therapeutic proteins, prompting the need for more efficient manufacturing processes.
- Researchers have found that the EB66 cell line, derived from duck embryonic stem cells, can produce mAbs at high yields (over 1 g/L) in serum-free conditions.
- This cell line also exhibits favorable growth properties, such as a short doubling time and low waste accumulation, while its mAbs have reduced fucose content which enhances their effectiveness in immune responses.
We propose a new type of surface wave lens that is made of a circular in-plane inhomogeneous metamaterial slab and numerically demonstrate its capability to focus surface waves at optical frequencies. This approach can achieve a smaller focal spot size than the previously demonstrated Ag plasmonic lens. The use of inhomogeneous metamaterials is to decrease the high losses that are usually associated with metamaterials that support large surface k vectors by reducing the propagation distance in high loss metamaterials.
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