Publications by authors named "V Adouard"
Introduction: Smoking is a public health issue in France, especially among the young. Its specificities for caregivers and health students are part of a nationwide "Tobacco-free health place" strategy, underlining the importance of individual choices and the clinical roles of future health professionals.
Method: Prospective survey by online questionnaire, conducted in 2021 among 238 nursing students and nursing assistants in Mâcon, concerning their smoking habits, vaping and the impact of the Covid-19 health crisis, the objectives being to assess the prevalence of smoking in this population, and compare it to previous surveys and data from the literature.
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- * Recent findings indicate that missense variants in the AMMECR1 gene are primarily responsible for most of the AMME syndrome features, excluding Alport syndrome.
- * Two unrelated male patients showed symptoms like short stature and mild intellectual disability due to small microdeletions involving the TMEM164 and AMMECR1 genes, supporting the idea that AMMECR1 haploinsufficiency is key to the syndrome’s symptoms.
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- Noonan syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by congenital heart defects, short stature, and unique facial features, commonly including pulmonary valve stenosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- A case report introduced the first instance of congenital left main coronary artery atresia linked to Noonan syndrome with a RIT1 variant, resulting in sudden death.
- This finding highlights the increased severity of RIT1-related Noonan syndrome, urging clinicians to exercise greater caution when treating these patients.
Objectives: 1. To present the prenatal cytogenetic findings and postnatal outcome of 12 cases with an isodicentric chromosome composed of the short arm of the Y chromosome.2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe left-handed form of poly(dG-m5dC).poly(dG-m5dC) induced by heating the copolymer in the presence of magnesium and stabilized with polyarginine can be used to raise antibodies in rabbits. These antibodies are able to recognize the Z conformation of both methylated and nonmethylated forms of the copolymers.
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