A5008755359- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Aquatic life and conservation
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
- Food composition and properties
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
2019-2023
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2023
The increased antibiotics usage in biomedical and agricultural settings has been well documented. Antibiotics have now shown to exert effects outside their purposive use, including on physiological developmental processes. We explored the effect of various intestinal regeneration sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima. For this, holothurians were eviscerated left regenerate for 10 days seawater with different penicillin/streptomycin-based cocktails (100 µg/mL PS) including: 100 kanamycin (KPS),...
Diet has been increasingly shown to be of therapeutic benefit for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), especially Crohn's disease (CD). Yet dietary guidelines are nonexistent. Moreover, diets tailored Puerto Ricans IBD living on the island, have not developed and tested. The rising prevalence in Rico warrants exploring use diet as part treatment strategies these [1]. Here, we describe study design "Dieta Anti-Inflamatoria" or DAIN, a parallel two-arm randomized pilot trial aiming...