[Use of virtual reality in eating disorders].

Virtual reality is a new technology that can be used to model an environment with which an individual can interact using all five senses. It is notably used in psychiatry for anxiety disorders and addictions, and its use in eating disorders has been growing in recent years. Indeed, virtual reality offers interesting advantages, such as its ability to personalize any environment, which is also more secure and controllable.

[Impact of routine brain imaging in the initial management of lung cancer].

Introduction: Brain metastases are a common complication of bronchial carcinoma (BC). There is no consensus as to the need to undertake a systematic search for these lesions during the initial assessment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of brain imaging in the initial evaluation of patients with CB.

Interactions of some phenylindanedione anticoagulants with human serum albumin.

This study enabled us, to define the quantitative parameters of the interactions which give rise to the formation of complexes between five phenylindanediones and albumin or polymethacryate. The existence of three attachment sites were demonstrated, by which these ligands are bound to the macromolecule. The results from the thermodynamic study of this phenomenon, together with the information supplied by; various spectroscopic methods; the formation of a complex between a synthetic polymer carrying amine functions, and the study of ligands in the presence of surfactant, were all in agreement.

[Purification and concentration of albumin solutions by diafiltration using a parallel membrane dialyzer].

The last two years, artificial Kidneys have been used for purification and concentration of human serum albumin solutions coming from plasma cracking in two Blood Transfusion Centers. Results are easily reproducible and the apparatus is reliable and of low cost. The properties of dialysis and ultrafiltration of the A.