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Group leader: Jean-Silvain Lacroix & Basile Landis

Group name: Rhinolgy and Olfactology Laboratory

Affiliation: University Hospital

Research activities:

image Brain mapping and olfactory evoked potentials. Activity of peptidases in human nasal epithelial cells : modulation by Substance P, cytokines, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. Studies on the role of intra cellular Staph. aureus in chronic rhinosinusitis.

Group website: http://www.hug-ge.ch/rhinologie

Selected Publications:

  • Landis BN, Welge-Luessen A, Brämerson A, Bende M, Mueller CA, Nordin S, Hummel T. Taste Strips - a rapid, lateralized, gustatory bedside identification test based on impregnated filter papers. J Neurol. 2009 Feb;256(2):242-8.
  • Landis BN, Burkhard PR. Phantosmias and Parkinson disease. Arch Neurol. 2008 Sep;65(9):1237-9.
  • Landis BN, Grouzmann E, Monod M, Busso N, Petak F, Spiliopoulos A, Robert JH, Szalay-Quinodoz I, Morel DR, Lacroix JS. Implication of dipeptidylpeptidase IV activity in human bronchial inflammation and in bronchoconstriction evaluated in anesthetized rabbits. Respiration. 2008;75(1):89-97.

Contact:
Geneva University Hospital
Unité de Rhinologie-Olfactologie
Service ORL
Email: silvain (dot) lacroix (at) hcuge (dot) ch and Basile (dot) Landis (at) hcuge (dot) ch