Effects of date seeds administration on anxiety and depressive symptoms in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: biochemical and behavioral evidences.

Objectives: Several epidemiological data indicate that chronic hyperglycemia is associated with behavioral changes such as anxiety and depressive symptoms. Date seeds, one of the most potent products with potential antioxidant activities and possess many benefits against hyperglycemia and its complication. The aim of the current study was to explore the potential effect of date seeds extract on biochemical and behavioral changes (anxiety and depression) in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats.

Recurrence and emergence of infectious diseases in Djibouti city.

Public health authorities are now increasingly concerned by changes in the epidemiology of infectious diseases which may have an adverse impact on their budget plans and control strategies. Rapid increases in population and urban migration, various ecological changes, increasing poverty, and a rise in international travel have contributed to the worldwide vulnerability of human populations to the emergence, recurrence or spread of infectious diseases. In the rapidly growing city of Djibouti in East Africa, public health priorities have been altered during the last 10 years by diseases which were unknown or under control until the early 1980s.

[Pulmonary tuberculosis secondary to fistulization of Pott's abscess. A case report].

The authors report a case of pulmonary tuberculosis appearing after an endobronchial fistula from a Pott's abscess. Such a clinical presentation is rare even in a developing country (PVD), where there is experience of more than 200 cases of tuberculous spondylodiscitis seen over a period of six years. The frequency of paravertebral abscess during the course of Pott's disease is around 52%, in the thoracic lesion their exteriorization by endobronchial fistula is around 4% (5 out of 114).

[Intrathoracic Pott's abscesses, radiologic pitfalls for the pneumologist].

The authors have conducted a retrospective study of 200 cases of tuberculous spondylitis, and wish to draw attention to the clinical and, chiefly, radiological aspects of the disease. Intrathoracic Pott's abscesses are principally observed in developing countries but they are not exceptional in France, and their varied semeiology deserves to be described.

[Mediastinal tuberculous adenopathies in Djibouti. Report of 159 cases].

One hundred and fifty-nine cases of confirmed mediastinal tuberculous adenopathy were analysed retrospectively. This series, which is the first reported in French-speaking Africa, shows that the disease is not uncommon there, and not restricted to black Africans living in Europe. The clinical symptoms are not specific.