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Caracterização química, atividade antioxidante e segurança de uso de sementes d...
Pessoa, Igor ParraPESSOA, Igor Parra. Caracterização química, atividade antioxidante e segurança de uso de sementes de Licania rigida Benth. 2015. 93 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em bioquímica)- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, 2015.; Free radicals have been associated to the etiology and the progression of various chronic-degenerative diseases, and constitute one of the factors that affect food quality deterioration. Th...
Evaluation of cytotoxic and antimicrobial effects of two Bt cry proteins on a G...
Farias, Davi Felipe; Viana, Martônio Ponte; Oliveira, Gustavo Ramos de; Beneventi, Magda Aparecida; Soares, BrunoMarques; Pessoa, ClaudiaStudies have contested the innocuousness of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry proteins to mammalian cells as well as to mammals microbiota.Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxic and antimicrobial effects of two Cry proteins, Cry8Ka5 (a novelmutant protein) and Cry1Ac (a widely distributed protein in GM crops). Evaluation of cyto- and genotoxicity in human lymphocytes was performed as well as hemolytic a...