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Photonic modulation of epidermal growth factor receptor halts receptor activati...
Botelho, Cláudia M.; Gonçalves, O.; Marques, R.; Thiagarajan, V.; Vorum, H.; Gomes, Andreia C; Petersen-Neves, T.Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) plays a key role in regulating cell survival, proliferation and migration, and its overexpression and activation has been correlated with cancer progression. Cancer therapies targeting EGFR have been applied in the clinic with some success. We show, by confocal microscopy analysis, that illumination of adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells (Human A549 EGFR...
Comparative study of Selva and Camarosa strawberries for the commercial market
Castro, Inês; Gonçalves, O.; Teixeira, J. A.; Vicente, A. A.Selva and Camarosa strawberry varieties were characterized chemically and physically. The importance of keeping the stem until processing, the influence of different transport periods under refrigerated conditions, the effects of freezing and exposure to air of damaged surfaces were evaluated. During freezing, losses of ascorbic acid, sucrose, fructose and glucose were reported for both varieties. However, keep...