Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
126270
- Reference
RECI/BBB-EBI/0179/2012
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
5876-PPCDTI
- Funding amount
338,852.00 €
- Start date
2013-01-01
- End date
2015-12-31
Documents
Tackling Nitrosomonas europaea culture problems for future applications in insh...
Padrão, Jorge; Susana Cortez; Dias, Nicolina; Nicolau, Ana; Mota, M.Worldwide aquaculture production represents nearly 160 million tonnes per year, roughly the double of captured fish. Technological improvements are required to provide and improve sustainability to the constant aquaculture production growth. Inshore aquaculture reduces dramatically the risk of infection of the cultured organisms, as sea water is treated before use. Contrariwise, to prevent the increase of opera...
Insights into interspecies interactions, phenotypic profile and antimicrobial s...
Grainha, Tânia Raquel RodriguesDissertação de mestrado em Bioengineering; Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second most common nosocomial infection in the intensive care units (ICU) and the most common in mechanically ventilated patients. VAP presents a serious problem in ICU due to high mortality and morbidity rates associated, because it is often biofilm-mediated and polymicrobial. Therefore, understanding the impact of microorg...
Artificial virus particles
Ferreira, Débora; Martins, Ivone M.This chapter intends to provide an overview of the use of viruses for medical applications. The first part describes the basic characteristics of viral particles regarding their chemical composition and size, as well as their structure and assembly/disassembly abilities. Next, a discussion about the newest and most important strategies for virus particles modification including genetic, chemical, and self-assem...
Novel cosmetic formulations containing a biosurfactant from Lactobacillus parac...
Ferreira, AF.; Vecino, Xanel; Ferreira, Débora; Cruz, J. M.; Moldes, A. B.; Rodrigues, L. R.Cosmetic and personal care products including toothpaste, shampoo, creams, makeup, among others, are usually formulated with petroleum-based surfactants, although in the last years the consume trend for green products is inducing the replacement of surface-active agents in these formulations by natural surfactants, so-called biosurfactants. In addition to their surfactant capacity, many biosurfactants can act a...
Micro- and nano bio-based delivery systems for food applications: In vitro beha...
Simões, Lívia Souza; Madalena, Daniel A.; Pinheiro, Ana Cristina; Teixeira, J. A.; Vicente, A. A.; Ramos, Óscar L.Micro- and nanoencapsulation is an emerging technology in the food field that potentially allows the improvement of food quality and human health. Bio-based delivery systems of bioactive compounds have a wide variety of morphologies that influence their stability and functional performance. The incorporation of bioactive compounds in food products using micro- and nano-delivery systems may offer extra health be...
Adsorption of aflatoxin B1, zearalenone and ochratoxin A by microorganisms isol...
Taheur, Fadia Ben; Fedhila, Kais; Chaieb, Kamel; Kouidhi, Bochra; Bakhrouf, Amina; Abrunhosa, LuísA strategy to reduce the deleterious effects of mycotoxins is to use dietary supplements that contain microorganisms that bind mycotoxins and diminish their gastrointestinal absorption. Novel strains were isolated from a Kefir culture and assessed for their mycotoxin adsorption and biotransformation ability. The most active strains were identified using DNA sequencing, and the stability of microorganism/mycotox...
Insights into cystic fibrosis polymicrobial consortia: the role of species inte...
Magalhães, Andreia P.; Lopes, Susana Patrícia; Pereira, Maria OlíviaThe Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb. 2016.02146/full#supplementary-material; Cystic Fibrosis (CF) airways disease involves complex polymicrobial infections where different bacterial species can interact and influence each other and/or even interfere with the whole community. To gain insights into the role that interactions betw...
Immobilization of bioactive compounds in Cassia grandis galactomannan-based fil...
Albuquerque, Priscilla B. S.; Cerqueira, Miguel A.; Vicente, A. A.; Teixeira, J. A.; Carneiro-da-Cunha, Maria G.Galactomannan extracted from Cassia grandis seeds was used for the production of films containing different concentrations of the bioactive compounds lactoferrin (LF), bioactive peptides (BAPs), and phytosterols. SEM, FTIR, mechanical and thermal properties, colour, moisture content (MC), solubility, water vapour permeability (WVP), and contact angle (CA) were performed evaluating the effect of increasing conce...
Interspecies interactions and bacteriophage control in S. Enteritidis and E. co...
Milho, Catarina; Silva, Maria Daniela; Alves, Diana; Azeredo, Joana; Sillankorva, SannaMicrobiotec'17 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2017; Background Salmonella Enteritidis and Escherichia coli are both important foodborne pathogens, commonly related to outbreaks1. Their ability to form biofilms contributes to their virulence and enables their survival on different food contact surfaces2. In mixed biofilms, interspecies interactions can occur, resulting in positive, negative or neut...
Staphylococcus epidermidis is largely dependent on iron availability to form bi...
Oliveira, Fernando E.; França, Angela; Cerca, NunoSupplementary data associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.08.009.; Staphylococcus epidermidis has long been known as a major bacterial coloniser of the human skin, yet it is also a prominent nosocomial pathogen. Its remarkable ability to assemble structured biofilms has been its major known pathogenic feature to date. Notwithstanding important ...
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