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Presence of endocrine disruptors in Portuguese diet
Morais, I.; Morais, J.; Simão, M.; Viegas, SusanaFood contamination is a global problem that can have a massive impact on human health. In Portugal, the consume of food is majority based on the Mediterranean diet including dairy products, meat, fish and eggs, vegetables, cereals, fruits, and water. However, sociodemographic and economic changes justify the recent changes in Portuguese food habits and patterns. Many of these newly introduced alimentary product...
Iron-enriched diet contributes to early onset of osteoporotic phenotype in a mo...
Simão, M.; Camacho, A.; Ostertag, A.; Cohen-Solal, M.; Pinto, I.; Porto, G.; Hang Korng, E.; Cancela, M.Osteoporosis is associated with chronic iron overload secondary to hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), but the causative mechanisms are incompletely understood. The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of dietary iron on osteoporosis, using as biological model the Hfe-KO mice, which have a systemic iron overload. We showed that these mice show an increased susceptibility for developing a bone l...
Identification of DVT diseases using numerical simulations
Simão, M.; Ferreira, J. M.; Mora Rodriguez, J.; Ramos, H. M.This research provides useful insights for better diagnosis and understanding the vein blockage induced by a deep venous thrombosis and the occurrence of reverse flow in human veins, allowing a proper detection of serious diseases related to deep venous insufficiency. An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation is used in a coupled model (i.e. fluid and structure equations solved together), considering two dom...