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Enhancing the nutritional value of a sugar-free Greek-style yoghurt by incorpor...
Carriço, Raquel; Marcos, Joana; Baptista, Cátia; Vasconcelos, Vanessa; Beato, Helena; Riscado, Ana; Silveira, Ana; Pitacas, F.I.; Paulo, LuísaAs consumers become more health-conscious, they are increasingly seeking out foods that offer potential health benefits, such as yoghurts. To encourage more sustainable and healthy consumption habits, it is important to develop food products using local food ingredients. This study focused on fermented dairy products, namely by developing various formulations of Greek yoghurt using strawberry-tree fruit (Arbutu...
Enhancing the nutritional value of a sugar-free greek-style yoghurt by incorpor...
Carriço, Raquel; Marcos, Joana; Baptista, Cátia; Vasconcelos, Vanessa; Beato, Helena; Riscado, Ana; Silveira, Ana; Pitacas, Inês; Paulo, LuisaOs consumidores, à medida que, se tornam mais preocupados com a saúde aumentam a procura de alimentos que ofereçam potenciais benefícios para a saúde, tais como os iogurtes. Com vista a incentivar hábitos de consumo mais sustentáveis e saudáveis, é importante desenvolver produtos funcionais utilizando ingredientes alimentares locais. Neste sentido, este estudo centrou-se no desenvolvimento de produtos lácteos f...
Efeito protetor de Cecropia pachystachya contra a citotoxidade do preproIAPP é ...
Ferreira, Sofia; Tavares, Rejane Giacomelli; Raimundo, Ana F.; Stefanello, Francieli M.; Reginatto, Flavio H.; Saraiva, Saraiva; Menezes, ReginaApesar dos avanços na terapêutica, a diabetes tipo 2 é uma epidemia com números alarmantes a nível mundial. Novas estratégias de prevenção e tratamentos são imperativas. Um potencial alvo de investigação é a agregação do Polipéptido Amilóide dos Ilhéus (IAPP), um dos responsáveis pela disfunção das células-ß pancreáticas. Para estudar o impacto do IAPP na sinalização do cálcio (Ca2+), desenvolvemos um modelo de...
Islet amyloid polypeptide & amyloid beta peptide roles in Alzheimer’s disease :...
Martins, Ivo C.; Menezes, Regina; Ferreira, Sofia; Raimundo, Ana F.Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions worldwide. Due to population ageing, the incidence of AD is increasing. AD patients develop cognitive decline and dementia, features for which is known, requiring permanent care. This poses a major socio-economic burden on healthcare systems as AD patients’ relatives and healthcare workers are forced to cope with rising numbers of af...
Identification and microbial production of the raspberry phenol salidroside tha...
Kallscheuer, Nicolai; Menezes, Regina; Foito, Alexandre; Henriques da Silva, Marcelo D.; Braga, Adelaide; Dekker, Wijbrand; Sevillano, David MéndezEdible berries are considered to be among nature's treasure chests as they contain a large number of (poly)phenols with potentially health-promoting properties. However, as berries contain complex (poly)phenol mixtures, it is challenging to associate any interesting pharmacological activity with a single compound. Thus, identification of pharmacologically interesting phenols requires systematic analyses of berr...
BacHBerry: BACterial Hosts for production of Bioactive phenolics from bERRY fruits
Dudnik, Alexey; Almeida, A. Filipa; Andrade, Ricardo; Avila, Barbara; Bañados, Pilar; Barbay, Diane; Bassard, Jean-Etienne; Benkoulouche, MounirBACterial Hosts for production of Bioactive phenolics from bERRY fruits (BacHBerry) was a 3-year project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union that ran between November 2013 and October 2016. The overall aim of the project was to establish a sustainable and economically-feasible strategy for the production of novel high-value phenolic compounds isolated from berry fruits using ba...