Dominique Bazin

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Are the staining procedures in biopsies to underline mineral deposits accurate?

Standardized staining procedures for histopathology are the gold standard to reveal ectopic calcifications. Typically, tissue samples are taken from patients and stained for examination by...

12 August 2014 6,974 8 View

How does “Randall’s plaque” promote renal stone formation?

Eight decades ago, Al exander Randall identified calcium phosphate deposits at the tip of renal papillae as the origin of renal calculi. The awareness that these “Randall’s plaque” promote renal...

10 August 2014 8,182 9 View

Does nutrient-enriched food especially aimed at young children affect the physiology of the kidney?

Randall’s plaques are soft tissue calcifications found in the deep renal medulla skirting the surface of the epithelium of the papilla, where they act as nucleating elements for renal calculi or...

23 April 2014 7,290 6 View

Is XANES a choice tool for understanding therapies derived from strontium which target osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem that affects about one in three women and one in seven men over 50 years - a total of 150 million people worldwide. Responsible for a decrease in bone...

23 April 2014 4,736 0 View

How can you know that an infection is responsible for kidney stones?

Different possibilities exist. Is there some struvite or high level of carbonation of apatite in the kidney stone (both through measurements by FTIR spectroscopy)? There is another solution; are...

03 March 2014 2,938 4 View

Kidney, breast, thyroid Calcifications New opportunities through scanning electron microscopy

Since its first use several decades ago, scanning electron microscopy has been used in numerous investigations dedicated to biological systems. This contribution focuses on observations on...

01 January 1970 8,616 2 View

Kidney stones related to infection

Most papers on kidney stones arising from infection concentrate on the mineral struvite. In this contribution, we would like to call attention to other mineral phases such as highly carbonated...

01 January 1970 6,161 0 View

Opportunities given by density functional theory in pathological calcifications

Density Functional Theory has made the study of biomaterials feasible in the past years leading to better understanding of causes and possible treatments of related pathologies. Although it has...

01 January 1970 823 1 View

Whitlockite in kidney stones & infection

Field emission scanning electron microscopy a powerful diagnostic tool for kidney stone disease ? Such a diagnostic tool would represent a significant benefit to the clinician.In view of the...

01 January 1970 2,441 3 View