Worldwide, millions of people are exposed to dietary imbalance that impacts in health and quality of life. In developing countries, like in Brazil, in poor settings, dietary habits, traditionally hypoproteic, are changing rapidly to western-type high-fat foods. These rapidly changing dietary habits are imposing new challenges to human health and there are many questions in the field that remain to be answered. ...
ALVES, Ana Carolina Benicio et al. Avaliação das alterações hipocampais em camundongos c57bl/6j desafiados pela Hiperlipidemia e dieta regional básica. Revista Encontros Universitários da UFC, Fortaleza, v. 1, n. 1, 2016. (Encontro de Iniciação Científica, 35); A obesidade é cada vez mais frequente em crianças expostas à uma dieta rica em lipídios no semiárido brasileiro, podendo causar déficits cognitivos. Com...
Malnutrition can affect the intestinal architecture, causing mucosal atrophy and compromising epithelial turnover. Although the gut is able to compensatorily respond to malnutrition, the molecular mechanisms by which the gut responds to protein deprivation are not completely understood. The intestinal cell kinase (ICK) is a highly conserved serine/threonine protein and a novel component of the signaling pathway...
Nutritional deficiency and stress can severely impair intestinal architecture, integrity and host immune defense, leading to increased susceptibility to infection and cancer. Although the intestine has an inherent capability to adapt to environmental stress, the molecular mechanisms by which the intestine senses and responds to malnutrition are not completely understood. We hereby report that intestinal cell ki...