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Osteopathy in the French-speaking part of Switzerland: Practitioners’ profile and scope of back pain management

Bill, Anne-Sylvie ; Dubois, Julie ; Pasquier, Jérôme ; Burnand, Bernard ; Rodondi, Pierre-Yves

In: PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, no. 5, p. e0232607

Background: Osteopathy is commonly used for spinal pain, but knowledge about back pain management by osteopaths is scarce.Objective: The aim of this study was to survey osteopaths across the French-speaking part of Switzerland about the scope of their practice and their management of patients with back pain.Design: This cross- sectional observational study was based on an online survey...

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Whole-body regeneration in the colonial tunicate Botrylloides leachii

Blanchoud, Simon ; Rinkevich, Buki ; Wilson, Megan J.

In: Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine, 2018, p. 337–355

The colonial marine invertebrate Botrylloides leachii belongs to the Tunicata subphylum, the closest invertebrate relatives to the vertebrate group and the only known class of chordates that can undergo whole-body regeneration (WBR). This dramatic developmental process allows a minute isolated fragment of B. leachii’s vascular system, or a colony excised of all adults, to restore a...

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Hematological analysis of the ascidian Botrylloides leachii (Savigny, 1816) during whole-body regeneration

Blanchoud, Simon ; Zondag, Lisa ; Lamare, Miles D. ; Wilson, Megan J.

In: The Biological Bulletin, 2017, vol. 232, no. 3, p. 143–157

Whole-body regeneration (WBR)—the formation of an entire adult from only a small fragment of its own tissue—is extremely rare among chordates. Exceptionally, in the colonial ascidian Botrylloides leachii (Savigny, 1816) a fully functional adult is formed from their common vascular system after ablation of all adults from the colony in just 10 d, thanks to their high blastogenetic...