A5022302126- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Gut microbiota and health
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Food composition and properties
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Microbial Inactivation Methods
- Antimicrobial agents and applications
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2014-2024
University of Urbino
2006-2013
Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona
2010
We assessed the gut microbial ecology of 11 severely obese patients before and after bilio-intestinal bypass (BIB). Fecal samples were evaluated for communities using 16S rDNA Illumina sequencing, real-time PCR targeting functional genes, gas chromatography short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). At 6 months surgery, subjects exhibited significant improvements in metabolic markers (body weight, glucose, lipid metabolism) compared with baseline. The fecal microbiota post-surgery individuals was...
Lachnospiraceae is a bacterial family usually isolated from human and mammalian intestinal microbiota. However, its presence role in the infant microbiota not fully elucidated. This may be due to strictly anaerobic behavior of members that hampers possibility culture-dependent enumeration. Here, we report on this group, using biomolecular techniques, stool samples 25 babies aged between 1 24 months. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was used as first detection step, data were...
Recent evidence suggests that there is a link between the gut microbial community and immune-mediated disorders. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) an autoimmune disease characterized by immunonological abnormalities, vascular lesions, extensive fibrosis. Since gastrointestinal tract one of organs most involved, goal this study was to explore composition intestinal microbiota in SSc patients with (SSc/GI+) without involvement (SSc/GI-) comparison healthy controls (HC). The fecal bacterial investigated...
Sourdough fermentation of bakery products is a well-established and widespread technique to confer an added value the resulting food. In recent decades, gluten-free raw materials have gained more attention due diffusion food disorders such as coeliac disease, but, at same time, they present difficult manipulation scarce technological properties because absence gluten. For this reason, work was aimed selecting starter cultures for sourdough application that are isolated from sorghum flour....
Animal studies show that high fat (HF) diet-induced gut microbiota contributes to the development of obesity. Oil composition high-fat diet affects metabolic inflammation differently with deleterious effects by saturated fat. The aim present study was examine diversity and capacity cecal bacterial community in C57BL/6 N mice administered two different diets, enriched respectively coconut oil (HFC, fat) or soy (HFS, polyunsaturated fat). relative impact each hypercaloric evaluated after 2 8...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect different animal feedings operated in two distinct PDO (protected designation origin) cheese production areas (Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano) on microbiome six full-scale biogas plants, by means Illumina sequencing qPCR techniques. effects feedstock (cattle slurry manure, energy crops, agro-industrial by-products), temperature (mesophilic/thermophilic), operating time were also examined, as relationships between predominant...
To evaluate the microbial contamination of 91 cosmetics (23 o/w emulsions, 47 tensiolytes, 21 aqueous pastes) in three different states use (intact, in-use, ending product) and protection efficacy preservative systems most frequently used analysed cosmetic formulations.Total bacterial count, isolation identification pathogenic isolates were performed on collected cosmetics. About 10.6% tensiolytes (13.5% bath foam, 6.7% shampoo, 10% liquid soaps) contaminated by Staphylococcus warneri,...
Alternatives to antibiotic treatments are required owing the ban on use of these drugs as growth promoters in food animal production. Tributyrin appears play a role improving performance pigs, albeit with varying degrees effectiveness. So far, very little is known about its effects gut microbiota composition. In this study, we investigated changes piglets receiving, at weaning, 0.2% tributyrin added their basal diet. Microbiota composition was assessed through 16S-rRNA gene sequencing stools...
Cocoa bean fermentation is carried out in different production areas following various methods. This study aimed to assess how the bacterial and fungal communities were affected by box, ground or jute methods, using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of phylogenetic amplicons. Moreover, an evaluation preferable method was based on microbial dynamics observed. Box resulted higher species diversity, while beans processed had a wider community. Lactobacillus fermentum Pichia kudriavzevii observed...