Victor Bancila
University of Geneva
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Journal of Neurochemistry | 2009
Victor Bancila; J. Miguel Cordeiro; Alain Bloc; Yves Dunant
Hippocampus mossy fibre terminals activate CA3 pyramidal neurons via two distinct mechanisms, both quantal and glutamatergic: (i) rapid excitatory transmission in response to afferent action potentials and (ii) delayed and prolonged release following nicotinic receptor activation. These processes were analysed here using rat hippocampus mossy fibres synaptosomes. The relationships between synaptosome depolarisation and glutamate release were established in response to high‐KCl and gramicidin challenges. Half‐maximal release corresponded to a 52 mV depolarisation step. KCl‐induced release was accompanied by transient dissipation of the proton gradient across synaptic vesicle membrane. Nicotine elicited a substantial glutamate release from mossy fibre synaptosomes (EC50 3.14 μM; Vmax 12.01 ± 2.1 nmol glutamate/mg protein; Hill’s coefficient 0.99). However, nicotine‐induced glutamate release was not accompanied by any change in the membrane potential or in the vesicular proton gradient. The effects of acetylcholine (200 μM) were similar to those of nicotine (25 μM). Nicotinic α7 receptors were evidenced by immuno‐cytochemistry on the mossy fibre synaptosome plasma membrane. Therefore, the same terminals can release glutamate in response to two distinct stimuli: (i) rapid neurotransmission involving depolarisation‐induced activation of voltage‐gated Ca2+ channels and (ii) a slower nicotinic activation which does not involve depolarisation or dissipation of the vesicular proton gradient.
Journal of Affective Disorders | 2014
Nader Perroud; Paolo Cordera; Julien Zimmermann; Giorgio Michalopoulos; Victor Bancila; Paco Prada; Alexandre Dayer; Jean-Michel Aubry
BACKGROUND Comorbidity between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder (BD) is associated with greater severity of BD. The current study aims at investigating, in a specialized mood disorders clinic, the percentage of comorbid ADHD-BD subjects and assessing the impact of ADHD on the severity of BD. METHODS Out of 539 mood disorders subjects, the medical records of 138 BD subjects were scrutinized in terms of their clinical and demographic characteristics, and their scores at the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1) Symptom Checklist were logged. Those positively scoring at the ASRS-v1.1 underwent clinical assessment by a senior psychiatrist specialized in ADHD. Comorbid ADHD-BD subjects were then compared with BD sufferers without ADHD. RESULTS Sixty-three (45.65%) of the participants were screened positive at the ASRS-v1.1. 49 were clinically assessed for the presence of ADHD. Only 27 (55%) received a diagnosis of ADHD. Comorbid ADHD-BD subjects were found to be younger at the onset of BD, showed higher numbers of depressive episodes, more anxiety and substance use disorders, more borderline personality traits and greater cyclothymic temperament. Comorbid BD-ADHD subjects reported more childhood emotional abuse. LIMITATIONS Some subjects were unreachable and thus not clinically assessed for ADHD. CONCLUSIONS More than 20% of BD subjects were suffering from ADHD. The comorbidity of the two disorders was associated with worse outcomes, possibly resulting from stressful early-life events. More than 40% of the subjects who scored positively at the ASRS-v1.1 did not suffer from ADHD, which suggests that this scale should be used with caution in BD subjects.
Metabolic Brain Disease | 2000
Alain Bloc; Victor Bancila; Maurice Israël; Yves Dunant
Synaptic transmission of a nerve impulse is an extremely rapid event relying on transfer of brief chemical impulses from one cell to another. This transmission is dependent upon Ca2+ and known to be quantal, which led to the widely accepted vesicular hypothesis of neurotransmitter release. However, at least in the case of rapid synaptic transmission the hypothesis has been found difficult to reconcile with a number of observations. In the article, we shall review data from experiments dealing with reconstitution of quantal and Ca2+-dependent acetylcholine release in: i) proteoliposomes, ii)Xenopus oocytes, and iii) release-deficient cell lines. In these three experimental models, release is dependent on the expression of the mediatophore, a protein isolated from the plasma membrane of cholinergic nerve terminals of theTorpedo electric organ. We shall discuss the role of mediatophore in quantal acetylcholine release, its possible involvement in morphological changes affecting presynaptic membrane during the release, and its interactions with others proteins of the cholinergic nerve terminal.
Journal of Molecular Neuroscience | 2010
Yves Dunant; Victor Bancila; Miguel Cordeiro
Although synaptic transmission was assumed to use the same mechanisms in the case of different synapses of the central and peripheral nervous system, recent research revealed a great variety of different processes. Time might be a crucial factor to be considered in this diversity. It is recalled that the speed of a chemical reaction is inversely related to affinity. “Time is gained at the expense of sensitivity” as noticed by Bernard Katz (1989). Therefore, synaptic transmission will occur at a high speed only if it is supported by low affinity reactions. In the present work, we compare two examples of ultra-rapid transmission (the Torpedo nerve electroplaque synapse and the rat hippocampus mossy fiber/CA3 synapses), with a cholinergic process operating with high affinity but at a low speed: the release of glutamate elicited by nicotine from mossy fibers of the rat hippocampus.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing | 2008
Daniele Fabio Zullino; Victor Bancila
Depressive states may at times be particularly tricky to ascertain or confirm during a time-limited consultation. For example, a patient may present with what has been termed as smiling depression. We present the case of a female patient with bipolar II disorder whose difficult-to-ascertain depression could be confirmed by her automatic wristwatch, which regularly stopped when she was hypokinetic as a result of her depression.
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2005
Eric Marthinet; Alain Bloc; Yoshimoto Oka; Yukio Tanizawa; Bernhard Wehrle-Haller; Victor Bancila; Jean-Michel Marie Maurice Dubuis; Jacques Philippe
Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2005
Victor Bancila; Thierry Cens; Dominique Monnier; Frédéric Chanson; Cécile Faure; Yves Dunant; Alain Bloc
Acta Neuropsychiatrica | 2009
Victor Bancila; Christophe Dallon; Daniele Fabio Zullino
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 2018
Célia Lloret-Linares; Marija Bosilkovska; Youssef Daali; Marianne Gex-Fabry; Kyle Heron; Victor Bancila; Giorgio Michalopoulos; Nader Perroud; Hélène Richard-Lepouriel; Jean-Michel Aubry; Jules Alexandre Desmeules; Marie Besson
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology | 2018
Sonia Vidal; Marianne Gex-Fabry; Victor Bancila; Giorgio Michalopoulos; Delphine Warrot; Françoise Jermann; Alexandre Dayer; Virginie Sterpenich; Sophie Schwartz; Laszlo Vutskits; Nawaz Khan; Jean-Michel Aubry; Markus Kosel