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Hasnae Benkirane
Étude des caractéristiques cliniques et biologiques des patients marocains COVID-19 avec et sans dysfonctionnement olfactif et/ou gustatif
Introduction et but de l’etude L’epidemie de coronavirus-2 du syndrome respiratoire aigu severe (SRAS-CoV-2), a l’origine de la maladie a coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), presente une menace importante et urgente pour la sante mondiale. Cette infection virale alarmante, declaree pandemique par l’OMS en fevrier 2020, a entraine des millions de patients infectes et des milliers de morts dans le monde. Au Maroc, malgre les efforts fournis par les autorites, le SRAS-CoV-2 continue de se propager et constitue un fardeau de morbidite et de mortalite. L’objectif de cette etude est de decrire les caracteristiques cliniques des patients marocains COVID-19 et d’etablir la relation entre des symptomes cli…
Single-nucleotide polymorphism rs1761667 in the CD36 gene is associated with orosensory perception of a fatty acid in obese and normal-weight Moroccan subjects
Abstract Obese subjects have shown a preference for dietary lipids. A recent collection of evidence has proposed that a variant in the CD36 gene plays a significant role in this pathway. We assessed the association between the orosensory detection of a long-chain fatty acid, i.e. oleic acid (OA), and genetic polymorphism of the lipid taste sensor CD36 in obese and normal-weight subjects. Adult participants were recruited in the fasting condition. They were invited to fat taste perception sessions, using emulsions containing OA and according to the three-alternative forced-choice (3-AFC) method. Genomic DNA was used to determine the polymorphism (SNP rs 1761667) of the CD36 gene. Obese (n 50…