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Harnessing the power of natural mineral waters in bread formulations: effects o...
Ferreira, Fernanda; Guimarães, Rafaela; Lemos, André; Milho, Catarina; Silveira, Tayse F. F. da; Ueda, Jonata M.; Carocho, Márcio; Heleno, Sandrina A.This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating natural mineral waters (NMW), including thermal water (TW) and bottled mineral water (BMW), into bread (‘biju’ type) to enhance its mineral content and explore their impacts on physicochemical, technological, biochemical, and chemical composition. NMW, rich in sodium, potassium, and magnesium, resulted in bread formulations with higher contents of th...
Harnessing the Power of Natural Mineral Waters in Bread Formulations: Effects o...
Ferreira, Fernanda; Guimarães, Rafaela; Lemos, André; Milho, Catarina; Silveira, Tayse Ferreira; Ueda, Jonata Massao; Carocho, MárcioThis study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating natural mineral waters (NMW), including thermal water (TW) and bottled mineral water (BMW), into bread (‘biju’ type) to enhance its mineral content and explore their impacts on physicochemical, technological, biochemical, and chemical composition. NMW, rich in sodium, potassium, and magnesium, resulted in bread formulations with higher contents of th...
Implication of a gene deletion on a Salmonella Enteritidis phage growth parameters
Milho, Catarina; Sillankorva, SannaSynthetic biology has been applied countless times for the modification and improvement of bacterial strains and for the synthesis of products that do not exist in nature. Phages are natural predators of bacteria controlling their population levels; however, their genomes carry several genes with unknown functions. In this work, Bacteriophage Recombineering of Electroporated DNA was used to assess the influence...
Avaliação da qualidade de vida e de sono dos termalistas do balneário termal de...
Pereira, Sandra Cristina Soares; Silva, Jani; Gonçalves, C.; Guimarães, Rafaela; Milho, Catarina; Galvão, Ana Maria; Alves, Maria JoséAtualmente, cada vez mais as pessoas recorrem ao termalismo para melhorar a saúde na sua ampla dimensão, com destaque para o bemestar, incluindo o relaxamento, alívio de stress, depressão, e mesmo recuperação e reservatório de energias. Os tratamentos termais proporcionam uma harmonia corporal integral e condições para prevenir possíveis patologias, inclusive de cariz mental e social, visando uma melhor qualida...
Antimicrobials from medicinal plants: an emergent strategy to control oral biof...
Milho, Catarina; Silva, Jani; Guimarães, Rafaela; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.; Barros, Lillian; Alves, Maria JoséOral microbial biofilms, directly related to oral diseases, particularly caries and periodontitis, exhibit virulence factors that include acidification of the oral microenvironment and the formation of biofilm enriched with exopolysaccharides, characteristics and common mechanisms that, ultimately, justify the increase in antibiotics resistance. In this line, the search for natural products, mainly obtained thr...
Antibiofilm potential of medicinal plants against Candida spp. oral biofilms: a...
Guimarães, Rafaela; Milho, Catarina; Liberal, Ângela; Silva, Jani; Fonseca, Carmélia; Barbosa, Ana Carolina; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.; Alves, Maria JoséThe use of natural products to promote health is as old as human civilization. In recent years, the perception of natural products derived from plants as abundant sources of biologically active compounds has driven their exploitation towards the search for new chemical products that can lead to further pharmaceutical formulations. Candida fungi, being opportunistic pathogens, increase their virulence by acquiri...
Biofilm applications of bacteriophages
Milho, Catarina; Silva, Maria Daniela; Sillankorva, Sanna; Harper, David R.Industrial settings, the food processing industry in particular, have strict sanitation procedures to minimize food product contamination and guarantee that their products are safe to be consumed. Sanitation procedures are routinely used, yet still pathogens are recovered from foods and processing surfaces that may eventually cause foodborne illnesses. Microorganisms have a natural tendency to attach to surface...
Control of Salmonella Enteritidis biofilms present on different food contact su...
Milho, CatarinaSalmonella, a human pathogenic bacterium, is still, nowadays, one of the main causes of food-related outbreaks, that result in thousands of illnesses and hospitalizations each year, around the globe. Contaminated poultry, fruit, and fresh vegetables are the key vehicles of human contamination, which could be prevented by the application of good processing practices and appropriate washing of food products. Besi...
Bacteriophage IBB-PF7A loaded on sodium alginate-based films to prevent microbi...
Alves, Diana; Marques, Arlete L.; Milho, Catarina; Costa, Maria J.; Pastrana, Lorenzo M.; Cerqueira, Miguel Ângelo Parente Ribeiro; Sillankorva, SannaDespite the recent advances achieved in food industries to fulfil the growing consumer demand for high quality and food safety, microbial contamination remains a serious issue. This study aimed to incorporate IBB-PF7A bacteriophage (phage) onto sodium alginate-based films crosslinked with calcium chloride, to prevent poultry spoilage caused by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Films were prepared by casting and characte...
Antimicrobial assessment of phage therapy using a porcine model of biofilm infe...
Milho, Catarina; Andrade, M.; Boas, Diana Patrícia Andrade Vilas; Alves, Diana; Sillankorva, SannaAntibiotic resistant bacterial communities persist in many types of wounds, chronic wounds in particular, in the form of biofilms. Biofilm formation is a major cause of severe infections and the main reason for a negative treatment outcome and slow healing progression. Chronic wounds are a silent epidemic essentially affecting people with co-morbid conditions such as diabetes and obesity and elderly persons par...