Report released on INSERM laboratory

A Review of the Inserm Report on the Health Effects of Exposure to Asbestos

Inserm 2016 Host Laboratories and Research Programs

Cannabinoid receptors are the targets of the psychoactive component of the plant Cannabis sativa (marijuana), delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Type-1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1) are the G protein coupled receptors most abundantly expressed in the brain and mediate most of the effects of THC. Our recent work demonstrated that CB1 receptors are expressed in many different brain cells where the...

Released on a WHIM.

studies with CLL and MCL have provided support for this explanation (Buchner et al11; M. F. M. de Rooij, J. J. Buggy, and M.S., manuscript in preparation). In this perspective, it is tempting to speculate that combining these agents with anti-CD47 may turn out to be a highly efficacious treatment for NHL patients: once the malignant B cells have been forced out of their protective growthand sur...

Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM U-562, Orsay, France

Levelt (2002) challenges the theoretical motivation and the interpretation of the data reported in Alario, Costa, and Caramazza’s (2002) study on utterance planning during speech production. In this response we argue against these criticisms. First, we show that the hypotheses entertained in our research about the scope of phonological encoding are well motivated in the context of current theor...

The Virus Reference Laboratory (Report)

POLIOMYELITIS, ASEPTIC MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS, 1955, 1956 AND 1957. Paralytic Poliomyelitis. The laboratory diagnosis of poliomyelitis has been undertaken in the department since August, 1955. Our aim has been to receive specimens from all notified paralytic cases, and in practice, thanks to the co-operation of the physicians, we have received specimens from over (seems) 95 per cent. of th...