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BAUMANN Nicole

Tel.: +33-1-4216-2155

Fax: +33-1-4584-8008

e-mail: baumann@ccr.jussieu.fr

 

Address

Laboratoire de Neurochimie INSERM Unit 495

Salpetriere Hospital

47 Bd de l'Hopital 75651 Paris cedex 13, France

Research themes

Autoimmunity in CNS and PNS, Human peripheral neuropathies. Glycolipid antigens and cellular markers. Glycolipids in degenerative diseases and myelin disorders.

Key words

Glycolipid antigens, gangliosides, cellular markers, dysimmune neuropathies, autoimmunity, degenerative diseases, multiple sclerosis, mass spectrometry.

Methods

Immunodetection of glycolipid antigens by ELISA and after thin-layer chromatography, lysosomal enzymes, cell cultures, metabolic studies, glycolipid biochemical characterization, purification of lipids, mass spectrometry of glycolipids and ceramides, molecular biology.

Composition of the research group

Nicole BAUMANN

MD, PhD, neurologist, biochemist

INSERM Unit 495 Salpetriere Hospital, Paris

Benoit COLSCH

Biochemist- Assistant ingenieur

INSERM U 495 Salpetriere Hospital, Paris

Mireille LEFEVRE

Biochemist- Assistant ingenieur

INSERM U 495 Salpetriere Hospital, Paris

Jean-Claude TURPIN

Neurologist

INSERM Unit 495 Salpetriere Hospital, Paris

Jacques PORTOUKALIAN

Biochemist

INSERM U 346 Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon

Recent publications

  1. BAUMANN N , TURPIN JC Adult onset leukodystrophies. J Neurol 2000, 247: 251-259.
  2. BAUMANN N. Specificity of antiglycolipid antibodies. Clin. Rev. Allergy and Immunol. 2000, 19: 31-40.
  3. LEGER JM, CHASSANDE B, MUSSET L, MEININGER V, BOUCHE B, BAUMANN N. Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in multifocal motor neuropathy. A double-blind placebo-controlled study. Brain 2001, 124: 145-153.
  4. BAUMANN N, PHAM-DINH D. Biology of oligodendrocytes and myelin in the mammalian central nervous system. Physiological Reviews 2001, 81: 871-927.
  5. BAUMANN N, TURPIN JC, LEFEVRE M, COLSCH B. Motor and psycho-cognitive clinical types in adult metachromatic leukodystrophy : genotype/phenotype relationships ? J Physiol (Paris) 2002, 96: 301-306.
  6. BAUMANN N, AUBRY J. Lipides du nerf peripherique. Encycl.Med.Chir.Elsevier Paris. Neurologie (2003) 17-030 F10 pp 1-9
  7. BAUMANN Nicole, THURIN JM Stress, Pathologies et Immunite. Flammarion Medecine Science Pub. 2003, 287 pages
  8. DELARASSE C, COLOMAR A, RODRIGUEZ D, BAUMANN N, AMEDEE T, PHAM-DINH D. Myelin genes and proteins. (RA Lazzarini, JW Griffin, H Lassman, KA Nave, RH Miller, BD Trapp) in Myelin Biology and disorders Elsevier Academic Press. 2004, pp
  9. VARKONYI J, ROSENBAUM H, BAUMANN N, MACKENZIE JJ, SIMON Z, AHARON J, WALKER JM, TAYEBI N, SIDRANSKY E. Gaucher disease associated with Parkinsonism. Am J Med Genet. 2003, 116A: 348-51.
  10. COLSCH B, AFONSO C, POPA I, PORTOUKALIAN J, FOURNIER F, TABET JC, BAUMANN N. Characterization of the ceramide moieties of sphingoglycolipids from mouse brain ESI-MS/MS : identification of ceramides containing sphingadienine. J Lipid Res 2004, 45 : 281-286.