Maternal vitamin D intake during pregnancy increases gene expression of ILT3 and ILT4 in cord blood (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that prenatal vitamin D intake may protect against the development of atopic diseases in young children. Vitamin D has been shown to induce tolerogenic antigen-pres
Synthesis of three classes of rhodacyanine dyes and evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity (Publications)
Selected members of three classes of rhodacyanine dyes, [0,0]-, [1,0]-, and [0,0,0]-rhodacyanines, were synthesized and their in vitro antimalarial activities against Plasmodium falciparum K1 (chloroq
Monitoring of heavy metal concentrations in home outdoor air using moss bags (Publications)
One monitoring station is insufficient to characterize the high spatial variation of traffic-related heavy metals within cities. We tested moss bags (Hylocomium splendens), deployed in a dense network
Disparities in parasitic infections, perceived ill health and access to health care among poorer and less poor schoolchildren of rural Côte... (Publications)
Differences in the state of health between rural and urban populations living in Africa have been described, yet only few studies analysed inequities within poor rural communities. We investigated dis
Monitoring of 1-min personal particulate matter exposures in relation to voice-recorded time-activity data (Publications)
Recent studies on the association between exposures to airborne particulate matter (PM) and disease have identified short-term peaks in PM exposures as posing especial health threats. Lightweight pers
Impaired fitness of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> resistant isolates in a cell culture model of murine macrophages (Publications)
Objectives We analysed the ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates to penetrate and grow inside murine macrophages as a surrogate of fitness. Methods Thirty-five drug-resistant and 10