Tese de Mestrado Integrado. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Área de Especialização de Energia). Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2012
The biphasic oxidative burst induced by Phaeomoniella chlamydospora extract (Pce) in Vitis vinifera (Vv) cell suspensions was investigated. Treatment of cell suspensions with diphenyleneiodonium chloride, an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase, prevented the Pce-induced biphasic reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, suggesting that NADPH oxidase is the primary ROS source in the oxidative burst induced by Pce elici...
Cell suspension cultures of Vitis vinifera cv. Vinhão (Vv) were used to study the putative response of V. vinifera to Phaeomoniella chlamydospora (Pc), a fungus frequently associated with esca and grapevine decline. Cells were elicited with a Pc autoclaved biomass extract and methyl jasmonate (MeJ). Phenolic production was evaluated by HPLC-DAD and HPLC-MS/MS. Phenolic production of Vv cells significantly chang...
In this work we used the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae to characterise the biological activity and the mechanism of action of phytochemicals. We have assessed DNA damage and repair using the comet assay, which displayed a dose-response relationship with different DNA-damaging agents. Subsequently, we used this system to assess the antigenotoxic properties of a leaf extract from Ginkgo biloba (GBE). Ex...
Hypericum perforatum (HP) commonly known as St. John’s wort is an important medicinal plant traditionally used in several ailments including mild to moderate depression. In a recent study, elicitation of HP cells (culture of cells in suspension) with Agrobacterium tumefaciens (AT) increased significantly the production of compounds with antioxidant and antimicrobial properties [1]. The ability of methanolic ext...
A construção de edifícios comporta, provavelmente, um dos conjuntos mais complexos de tarefas dentre as atividades de produção existentes. O produto que lhe é associado é também caracterizado por propriedades que lhe são únicas, acrescentando complicações à compatibilização das atividades de planeamento e execução, por constante alteração do método de trabalho. Entretanto, os intervenientes desta indústria têm ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD), first described by James Parkinson in 1817, is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disorder. The pathologic hallmark is a deterioration of the substantia nigra of yet unknown causes, resulting in a deficiency of dopamine, an important neurotransmitter for the basal ganglia circuit and the presence of cytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusions named Lewy ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with high prevalence and is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of cytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusions named Lewy bodies, in which α-synuclein is the major constituent. Several studies implicate abnormal protein accumulation, protein phosphorylation, mitochondrial dysfu...
Biodiesel, in the form of fatty acid esters, produced by oleaginous microorganisms, could represent an attractive alternative of renewable liquid biofuels. Lipid metabolism has been studied extensively in S. cerevisiae and all genes encoding enzymes directly involved in lipid synthesis are known. In this model yeast, exogenous long-chain fatty acids are activated to coenzyme A derivatives prior to metabolic uti...
Biodiesel, in the form of fatty acid esters, produced by oleaginous microorganisms, could represent an attractive alternative of renewable liquid biofuels. In the model yeast S. Cerevisiae lipid metabolism has been studied extensively and all genes encoding enzymes directly involved in lipid synthesis are known. In this organism exogenous long-chain fatty acids are activated to coenzyme A derivatives prior to m...
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