Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to F Pinatel.
One case of human nasal myiasis caused by second and third instar larvae of Oestrus ovis was observed in Lille (North France). Oestrosis is a common myiasis of sheep and goats in Mediterranean and Tropical countries. The authors examine the oestrosis pathogenesis in the usual host (sheep) or in humans, and analyse the epidemiology, the symptomatology and the treatment of human oestrosis.
A program for analysing the sequences of discharge of a single neuron is presented. This program performs the following tasks: it tests if there is a neuronal response after a stimulus, it estimates the response latency and, in the case of an experiment with a conditioned movement, it estimates the onset of the movement and gives indications about the functional role of the neuron by analysing the variances of the stimulus-response and response-movement times. The methods used have been developed by the authors and are based on the estimation of a change point. The basic methods are published elsewhere but some novelties are presented here, in particular a robust estimator of a variance ratio.