A5025612131- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
University of Algarve
2020-2024
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical
2023
University of Lisbon
2023
Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) is an important species in Mediterranean aquaculture. Rapid intensification of its production and sub-optimal husbandry practices can cause stress, impairing overall fish performance raising issues related to sustainability, animal welfare, food safety. The advent next-generation sequencing technologies has greatly revolutionized the study stress biology, allowing a deeper understanding molecular responses. Here, we characterized for first time, using...
Stress triggers a battery of physiological responses in fish, including the activation metabolic pathways involved energy production, which helps animal to cope with adverse situation. Prolonged exposure stressful farming conditions may induce effects at whole-animal level, impairing welfare. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is rapid biochemical fingerprinting technique, that, combined chemometrics, was applied disclose alterations fish liver as result standard practices...
Hepatic metabolic adjustments are key adaptive mechanisms to stress in fish targeting at increasing energy availability for the animal efficiently cope with a stressor. Teleosts exhibit broad variety of these responses, depending on species biology, individual experiences and challenge’s characteristics. Nevertheless, molecular response prolonged can be more heterogeneous far complex interpret than that an acute stress. A comparative proteomics analysis was employed discover set liver...
The study of the molecular mechanisms stress appraisal on farmed fish is paramount to ensuring a sustainable aquaculture. Stress exposure can either culminate in organism's adaptation or aggravate into metabolic shutdown, characterized by irreversible cellular damage and deleterious effects performance, welfare, survival. Multiomics improve our understanding complex stressed phenotype mediators that regulate underlying processes response. We profiled proteome metabolome Sparus aurata...
Consumption of aquatic food, including fish, accounts for 17% animal protein intake. However, fish consumption might also result in several side-effects such as sneezing, swelling and anaphylaxis sensitized consumers. Fish allergy is an immune reaction to allergenic proteins the muscle, instance parvalbumin (PV), considered major allergen. In this study, we characterize PV two economically important species southern European aquaculture, namely gilthead seabream seabass, understand its...
The link between the autonomic nervous system and tumor biology is being unfold. We aim to study contribution of genes adrenergic (ADBR2 - rs1042713, NM_000024.6:c.46G>A, NP_000015.2:p. Gly16Arg), cholinergic (CHRNA5 rs16969968, NM_000745.3:c.1192G>A, NP_000736.2:p.Asp398Asn), serotonergic systems (SLC6A4 5-HTTVNTR-intron2, HTR2A rs6313, NM_000621.5:c.102C>T, NP_ 001365853 .1: p. Ser 34=) gynecological tumorigenesis their treatment by embolization. A total 517 DNA samples from women were...