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Ce mémoire vise à élargir l’interprétation du monument funéraire d’Henri II et Catherine de Médicis (1565-70) maintenant aménagé à la Basilique Saint-Denis à Paris, une œuvre que l’historiographie attribue conjointement au Primatice et à Germain Pilon. Fortement marquée par une perspective panosfkienne, la fortune critique de ce tombeau a privilégié des approches, qu’elles soient historicistes ou iconographiques, qui ont eu pour effet d’oblitérer la médialité du dispositif dans lequel le tombeau devait originellement paraître, soit la chapelle des Valois, mieux connue sous le nom de « rotonde des Valois ». Le présent travail se penche sur ce dispositif particulier en reformulant une approche propice à développer des outils méthodologiques adaptés au médium de la sculpture. De plus, il propose une hypothèse d’interprétation en liaison avec la commanditaire du tombeau, Catherine de Médicis. Nous verrons en effet que la construction d’une chapelle funéraire renforçait l’identification à la reine antique Artémise, ainsi que cela était suggéré dans un ouvrage composé par l’apothicaire de la reine, Nicolas Houel. Dans un contexte hostile aux prises de pouvoir féminin, Catherine se serait ainsi servie d’une fable amoureuse pour faciliter la construction de sa persona politique. Le mémoire s’attache plus précisément à examiner comment l’image traduit cette opération de refiguration du soi. Aussi, il s’inspire de l’importante réflexion menée ces dernières années en histoire de l’art et en anthropologie autour de la pensée d’Aby Warburg et s’applique à inscrire l’interprétation de l’image dans le champ de sa figurabilité. / The present research aims at broadening the interpretations of the tomb of Henri II and Catherine de’Medici, a piece attributed to both Francesco Primaticcio and Germain Pilon which is located in the Basilica of St Denis in Paris. This monument’s critical fortune has been strongly influenced by a panofskian viewpoint and has favored intellectual approaches, be they historicist or iconographic, which tend to cancel out the “médialité” inherent to what was supposed to be the monument’s original location, the Valois chapel, best known as the « rotonde des Valois ». This study therefore addresses this peculiar problematic by reformulating an approach conducive to developing methodological tools adequate to the sculptural medium. Furthermore, it proposes an interpretation linking the monument to its patron and instigator, Catherine de’Medici. The construction of a funeral chapel was a way to foster her identification to the antique queen Artemisa, as suggested in a book written by the queen’s apothecary, Nicolas Houel. Considering the hostility toward woman in power in France, the fable of Artemisia thus facilitated the regent’s persona construction. This thesis focuses more closely on how the image can translate such an operation. It also draws from recent critical reflections conducted around Aby Warburg, in art history and anthropology, and sets out the interpretation of the image within the scope of its figurability.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of electrochemical cells and deals in detail with lithium-ion batteries. The thesis describes the history of development of lithium-ion batteries, basic information about lithium and basic types of electrochemical cells. The work is devoted in detail to the description of characteristics and operating principle of lithium-ion batteries with emphasis on the negative electrode and negative electrode materials. Of the negative electrode materials, both the most widely used material graphite and modern materials with a great potential for the future are described. In the measurement methods the work describes methods CV, GCPL and EIS. Great emphasis is placed on the explanation of the principle of the function of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and its application in measurement of electrochemical properties of materials used in lithium-ion batteries. There is also described the procedure of calculation of diffusion coefficients using the results of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. In the practical part, two methods are used to calculate the diffusion coefficients of lithium ions into the negative electrode made of expanded flake graphite using the results of a series of electrochemical measurements.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Literature has demonstrated the ability of human adipose tissue to generate large amounts of lactate. However, it is not understood why adipose tissue produces lactate, how the production of lactate is regulated, and what potential benefit this has to the adipocyte or the organism. We first characterized a human model of adipogenic differentiation with minimal donor to donor variability to assess metabolic changes associated with mature adipocytes compared to their precursors. Indeed, similar to what was observed in human clinical studies, the differentiated adipocytes demonstrated increased lactate production. However, the differentiated adipocytes compared to their precursors (preadipocytes or ASCs) demonstrate an aerobic glycolysis-like (also called Warburg effect-like) increase in glycolysis characterized by a 5.2 fold increase in lactate production in normoxic conditions (atmospheric oxygen tension). Remarkably, this increase in lactate occurred even though the differentiated adipocytes simultaneously demonstrate an increase in oxidative capacity. This low fraction of oxidative capacity coupled with increased lactate production indicated regulation of oxidative rates most likely at the point of pyruvate conversion to either acetyl-CoA (oxidative metabolism) or lactate (glycolytic metabolism). To investigate the potential regulation of this metabolic phenotype, PDK isoform expression was assessed and we found PDK 1 and 4 transcript and protein elevated in the differentiated cells. Non-selective pharmacologic inhibition of the PDKs resulted in decreased lactate production, supporting a regulatory role for PDK in modulation of the observed Warburg effect. PDK inhibition also resulted in increased ROS production in the adipocytes after several hours of treatment and a decrease in cell viability when PDK inhibition was carried out over 36 hours. The resulting loss in viability could be rescued by antioxidant (Tempol) treatment, indicating the decrease in viability was ROS mediated. Similar to what is seen in cancer cells, our data demonstrate that differentiation of human adipocytes is accompanied by a PDK-dependent increase in glycolytic metabolism (Warburg effect) that not only leads to lactate production, but also seems to protect the cells from increased and detrimental generation of ROS.

Cette étude vise à esquisser les fondements et influences philosophiques de la pensée de l’historien de l’art Aby Warburg par le biais de deux penseurs : Friedrich Nietzsche et Ernst Cassirer. La question de la mémoire offre un fil conducteur à cette investigation dans la mesure où, pour Warburg, celle-ci est véhiculée de manière insigne par et dans l’image. D’abord, il s’agira de souligner que la Renaissance italienne, point de départ de l’investigation mémorielle de ce dernier, s’est présentée avant tout en tant que question au sein de l’imagination historique allemande. C’est notamment chez l’historien de la culture Jacob Burckhardt et Nietzsche, deux maîtres à penser de Warburg, que cette période historique est thématisée pour repenser le rapport de l’individu à son passé. Ensuite, l’approche des sciences de la culture, une constellation disciplinaire duquel se revendique Warburg, nous permet de voir de quelle manière la méthode de celui-ci se distingue de l’abstraction esthétique afin de préserver le sens équivoque de la mémoire et la possibilité de faire l’expérience vivante ou posthume de l’image. Enfin, c’est par le biais du symbole, objet d’étude centrale de la philosophie de Cassirer, que Warburg en viendra à penser les polarités de l’image. Sans vouloir rabattre la pensée de Warburg sur celle d’un système, le dialogue avec Cassirer permettra de voir comment ceux-ci ont réussi leur pari de rendre compte de la pensée mythique et de ses intermédiaires avec la raison. / This study aims to outline the philosophical foundations and influences of art historian Aby Warburg's work through two thinkers: Friedrich Nietzsche and Ernst Cassirer. The question of memory offers a red thread to this investigation insofar as, for Warburg, it is conveyed in an insignificant way in and through the image. First, it will be emphasized that the Italian Renaissance, the starting point of his investigation of memory, was presented above all as a question within the German historical imagination. In particular, the cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, two of Warburg's influences, thematized this historical period in order to rethink the relationship of the individual to his past. Secondly, the approach of cultural sciences, a disciplinary constellation used by Warburg, allows us to see how his method differs from aesthetic abstraction to preserve the equivocal meaning of memory and the possibility of experience the life or the afterlife of images. Finally, it is through the symbol, the central object of study in Cassirer's philosophy, that Warburg comes to ponder the polarities of the image. Without seeking to reduce Warburg's thought to that of a system, the dialogue with Cassirer will make it possible to see how they succeeded in their wager to give an account of mythical thought and its intermediaries with reason.

The transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF1) is the crucial regulator of genes that are involved in metabolism under hypoxic conditions, but information regarding the transcriptional activity of HIF1 in normoxic metabolism is limited. Different tumor cells were treated under normoxic and hypoxic conditions with various drugs that affect cellular metabolism. HIF1ff was silenced by siRNA in normoxic/hypoxic tumor cells, before RNA sequencing and bioinformatics analyses were performed while using the breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 as a model. Differentially expressed genes were further analyzed and validated by qPCR, while the activity of the metabolites was determined by enzyme assays. Under normoxic conditions, HIF1 activity was significantly increased by (i) glutamine metabolism, which was associated with the release of ammonium, and it was decreased by (ii) acetylation via acetyl CoA synthetase (ACSS2) or ATP citrate lyase (ACLY), respectively, and (iii) the presence of L-ascorbic acid, citrate, or acetyl-CoA. Interestingly, acetylsalicylic acid, ibuprofen, L-ascorbic acid, and citrate each significantly destabilized HIF1ff only under normoxia. The results from the deep sequence analyses indicated that, in HIF1-siRNA silenced MDA-MB-231 cells, 231 genes under normoxia and 1384 genes under hypoxia were transcriptionally significant deregulated in a HIF1-dependent manner. Focusing on glycolysis genes, it was confirmed that HIF1 significantly regulated six normoxic and 16 hypoxic glycolysis-associated gene transcripts. However, the results from the targeted metabolome analyses revealed that HIF1 activity affected neither the consumption of glucose nor the release of ammonium or lactate; however, it significantly inhibited the release of the amino acid alanine. This study comprehensively investigated, for the first time, how normoxic HIF1 is stabilized, and it analyzed the possible function of normoxic HIF1 in the transcriptome and metabolic processes of tumor cells in a breast cancer cell model. Furthermore, these data imply that HIF1 compensates for the metabolic outcomes of glutaminolysis and, subsequently, theWarburg effect might be a direct consequence of the altered amino acid metabolism in tumor cells.

Dans les pays industrialisés, les rétinopathies ischémiques proliférantes telles que la rétinopathie diabétique et la rétinopathie du prématuré sont les principales causes de cécité chez les individus en âge de travailler et la population pédiatrique. Ces pathologies sont caractérisées par une dégénérescence microvasculaire initiale suivie d’une hyper-vascularisaton compensatoire disproportionnée et pathologique. Les sirtuines constituent une importante famille de protéines impliquées dans le métabolisme et la réponse au stress. Plus particulièrement, sirtuine 3 (SIRT3) est une déacétylase mitochondriale primordiale qui agit au cœur du métabolisme énergétique et de l’activation de nombreuses voies métaboliques oxydatives. Nos résultats démontrent pour la première fois qu’une déficience en SIRT3 diminue la sévérité des lésions vasculaires dans le modèle murin de rétinopathie induite par l’oxygène (OIR). En plus de stimuler l’angiogénèse, l’absence de SIRT3 est aussi associée à une augmentation de la glycolyse, possiblement en activant la famille de gènes 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (PFKFB). Nous suggérons que le manque de SIRT3 est impliqué dans l’effet Warburg et procure ainsi un avantage prolifératif et protecteur dans l’OIR. La présente étude propose SIRT3 comme nouvelle cible thérapeutique potentielle dans la rétinopathie du prématuré, une maladie dont les complications désastreuses persistent tout au long de la vie. / Proliferative ischemic retinopathies such as proliferative diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) are the leading causes of blindness in working age and pediatric populations in industrialized countries. These pathologies are characterized by an initial microvascular degeneration followed by a disproportionate compensatory but pathological hyper-vascularization mounted by the hypoxic and energy deficient retina in an attempt to reinstate metabolic equilibrium. Sirtuins are an important family of protein involved in metabolism and stress response. Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) in particular is a major mitochondrial deacetylase central to energy metabolism and the regulation of many oxidative pathways. For the first time, our results show that a lack of SIRT3 decreases the severity of vascular lesions in the oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) mouse model. Deficiency in SIRT3 not only stimulates angiogenesis, but also increases glycolysis, possibly through indirect activation of the gene family 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (PFKFB). We suggest that a lack of SIRT3 is involved in the Warburg effect and therefore confers a proliferative advantage that is protective in OIR. The present study puts forward SIRT3 as a new potential therapeutic target for ROP, a disease leading to life-long vision complications.

Contexte. Les carcinomes des voies aérodigestives supérieures (VADS) arrivent en 6ème position parmi les cancers les plus fréquents au niveau mondial. La fonction du récepteur TLR3 dans les cellules de carcinomes des VADS est encore très mal comprise. Objectifs et méthodes. 1) Déterminer le niveau d’expression du récepteur TLR3 dans les lignées et les biopsies de carcinomes des VADS par western blot et par immunohistochimie. 2) Etudier le rôle de TLR3 dans la croissance tumorale de ces tumeurs, en utilisant notamment des lignées invalidées de façon conditionnelle pour TLR3. 3) Evaluer in vitro les effets cytotoxiques de ligands artificiels de TLR3 soit seuls, soit utilisés en combinaisons avec un inhibiteur d’IAP (inhibitor of apoptosis protein).Résultats. La protéine TLR3 est détectée à un niveau élevé en western blot dans les lignées de carcinomes des VADS étudiées, comparativement à un panel d’autres tumeurs épithéliales humaines. TLR3 est également constamment détecté en immunohistochimie dans les biopsies. TLR3 semble jouer un rôle dans la croissance tumorale des carcinomes des VADS : dans certaines conditions de culture (culture en hypoxie ou en milieu pauvre en SVF et en nutriments), la stimulation de TLR3 par un ligand exogène, le poly(A:U), favorise la croissance des cellules tumorales. Nous avons étudié l’effet de la stimulation de TLR3 sur le métabolisme glucidique dans ces mêmes cellules en utilisant un appareil de type Seahorse® qui mesure la consommation d’oxygène et la production de protons à partir de cellules cultivées en microplaques. Ces expériences montrent que la stimulation de TLR3 fait augmenter l’activité des voies du métabolisme cellulaire anaérobie (glycolyse extra-mitochondriale). Une étude métabolomique a mis en évidence des différences significatives dans le profil métabolique des cellules tumorales stimulées par le poly(A:U) comparativement aux cellules non traitées. Par ailleurs, nous avons montré que la stimulation de TLR3 permettait de détecter le facteur de transcription HIF1 en Western blot, même en conditions normoxiques. Sachant que des ARN libérés par des cellules en état de nécrose peuvent stimuler TLR3, il est tentant de penser que ce récepteur pourrait favoriser la survie des cellules malignes en zone hypoxique au voisinage de cellules nécrotiques. Néanmoins, l’expression de TLR3 représente aussi un facteur de vulnérabilité pour les cellules de carcinome des VADS : en effet les ligands artificiels de TLR3 utilisés en combinaison avec un inhibiteur d’IAP (Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein) produisent des effets cytotoxiques sur les lignées de carcinomes des VADS étudiées. / Background. Head and Neck (HN) carcinomas are the 6th most frequent type of cancer worldwide. The role of the TLR3 receptor in HN carcinomas remains poorly understood.Objectives and Methods. 1) To assess the expression level of TLR3 in HN carcinoma cell lines and biopsies by Western blot and immunohistochemistry, respectively. 2) To study the role of TLR3 in tumour growth using specific cell lines with conditional knock-down of TLR3. 3). To assess in vitro the cytotoxic effects of artificial ligands of TLR3 used either alone or in combination with an IAP (inhibitor of apoptosis protein) inhibitor.Results. TLR3 protein was detected at a high level by Western blot analysis in HN carcinoma cell lines, by comparison with a panel of other human epithelial cancer cell lines. TLR3 was also consistently detected by immunohistochemistry in tumour biopsies. TLR3 seem to play a role in HN carcinoma cell growth: under certain culture conditions (hypoxic or low fetal calf serum/low nutrient culture conditions), TLR3 stimulation by a synthetic ligand, the poly(A:U), favours tumour cell growth. We investigated the effects of TLR3 stimulation on glucose metabolism using a Seahorse® analyzer, which measures the oxygen consumption and the proton production in living cells. Our results indicate that TLR3 stimulation induces an increase in anaerobic metabolism (extra-mitochondrial glycolysis). A metabolomic study revealed significant changes in the metabolic profile of cancer cells treated by poly(A:U) by comparison with untreated cells. We also showed that under TLR3 stimulation, HIF1 became detectable by Western blot analysis, even in normoxia. Given the fact that RNA fragments released by dying cells are able to trigger TLR3, one can assume that TLR3 might favour cancer cell survival in hypoxic areas located near the necrotic core of the tumour. However, TLR3 expression is also a factor of vulnerability for HN carcinoma cells: indeed, the combination of TLR3 artificial ligands with an IAP inhibitor has a strong cytotoxic effect on HN carcinoma cells in vitro.

The Lon protease is a mitochondrial matrix quality-control protease belonging to the family of AAA+ proteins (ATPases associated with many cellular activities). We had previously found Lon to be upregulated in lung tumours with a non-angiogenic phenotype in a microarray study comparing these to conventional angiogenic tumours. In this project I set out to investigate whether Lon had any role in modulating the hypoxic response of tumour cells. Using a novel monoclonal antibody against Lon, I found that upregulation of Lon was present in breast and lung tumours and that higher levels of Lon are correlated with shorter overall survival in breast cancer patients. Targeting Lon with siRNA and shRNA in tumour cell lines reduced the normoxic and hypoxic stabilisation of HIF-α subunits. This is mediated through a mechanism independent of the activity of HIF-prolyl hydroxylases and independent of any changes in mitochondrial transcription. I found that the pre-imported form of Lon could bind and chaperone VHL in the cytoplasm potentially modulating VHL activity. In cell lines and human tumours, I observed that the proline-hydroxylated form of HIF-1α is induced by hypoxia and the hydroxylated form of HIF-1α is associated with shorter overall survival in breast cancer patients. This observation supports the notion that higher levels of Lon is associated with poor survival by downregulating VHL leading to higher levels of hydroxylated HIF. Finally I show that targeting Lon in cell lines is able to inhibit growth in a cell-line dependent fashion and partially reverses the Warburg effect, increasing oxygen consumption and reducing lactate production. In conclusion, I have demonstrated the broad therapeutic potential of targeting the Lon protease in tumours and highlighted a mechanism of post-hydroxylation HIF-regulation that has not been previously recognised in VHL competent tumours.

Ce projet analyse le rôle des images – photographies, films, dessins – produites dans le cadre des recherches ethnographiques « interdisciplinaires » menées par l’anthropologue italien Ernesto De Martino en Italie méridionale dans les années 1950. Ces expéditions ont donné lieu à des documents multiformes puisqu’elles regroupent des chercheurs de formations différentes : historien des religions, ethnomusicologue, psychiatre, photographe, et occasionnellement cinéaste. Plus spécifiquement, il s’agit d’étudier le rôle des matériaux visuels dans la recherche sur le tarentisme, rituel de possession observé dans les Pouilles en 1959 par De Martino et son équipe, matériaux dont une partie constitue l’annexe photographique de son œuvre célèbre La terra del rimorso (1961). Nous portons également attention à l’atlas iconographique de son ouvrage sur la lamentation funèbre, Morte e pianto rituale nel mondo antico. Dal lamento pagano al pianto di Maria (1958), fruit d’une étude de terrain dans la région sud italienne de la Lucania (Basilicata). Tout en considérant les relations intermédiales entre les images, le texte, le son et le corps, ce mémoire identifie les rapports dialectiques entre les techniques d’enregistrement et les logiques répétitives, rythmiques et performatives des rituels en question. Chez De Martino, l’image est point de tension en matière de temporalité et de ressemblance : elle suggère une anthropologie de la « survivance » nous permettant de relever plusieurs correspondances avec l'oeuvre de l’historien de l’art Aby Warburg. / This project deals with the production of images in Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martino’s 1950s “interdisciplinary ethnographies” in southern Italy. These expeditions, innovative for their time, involved a team of researchers (including a religious historian, ethnomusicologist, psychiatrist, photographer and, at times, a filmmaker) and gave rise to mixed-media documents. While the textual aspects of De Martino’s work have been studied in depth, my approach focuses on image-making practices: photography, film, drawings. Building largely on his famous work La terra del rimorso (1961) on tarantism – a possession ritual observed by De Martino’s team in Puglia in 1959 – as well as on the iconographic atlas of Morte e pianto rituale nel mondo antico. Dal lamento pagano al pianto di Maria (1958) – his study on mourning rituals led in the southern Italian region of Lucania (Basilicata) –, this thesis suggests that images, despite their ancillary status, formed a major part of De Martino’s fieldwork and transmitted much more than documentary knowledge. Not only does the visual haunt De Martino’s own text as a literary device, but it is also tightly connected to a series of intermedial elements (sound, objects, bodies) inherent to the ritual “apparatus” itself and its documentation process. It was thus possible to perceive a dialectical relationship between technological imagistic devices such as photography and film, which “reproduced” possession rituals, and those practices’ own repetition processes, temporal rhythms, and performativity. Lastly, these images also suggest an anthropology of “afterlife” by means of visual analogies passed through bodily gesture, reminiscent of Aby Warburg’s work.