A5050534325- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
- Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Food composition and properties
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
- Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
- Phytase and its Applications
- Enzyme Production and Characterization
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
- Varied Academic Research Topics
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
Universidade de Vigo
2015-2025
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
2022
University of Minho
2014-2018
Clinical Academic Center of Braga
2016
Complejo Hospitalario de Ourense
2016
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2012
University of the Basque Country
2010
Increased incomes, urbanization, and an aging population, are leading to changes in consumption patterns, resulting a growing demand for proteins. From sustainability perspective, there is consensus that animal protein production has disproportionately impact on the environment, particularly intensive systems require significant amounts of feed crops. Macroalgae have emerged as promising feedstock transitioning towards blue bioeconomy. Red seaweed stands out attractive action, it can contain...
Wheat straw is a highly promising raw material for bio-refinery strategies. Most of the literature related to lignocellulose fractionation focuses on cellulose purification and hemicellulose solubilization. Pre-treatments solubilization without formation undesired products usually reach low extraction yields, which leaves an important fraction unused. In this work, we propose mild process efficient wheat assisted by partial enzymatic hydrolysis with three commercial endo-xylanase cocktails....
Temperature-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) nanohydrogels were synthesized by nanoemulsion polymerization in water-in-oil systems. Several cross-linking degrees and the incorporation of acrylic acid as comonomer at different concentrations tested to produce with a wide range properties. The physicochemical properties PNIPA nanohydrogels, their relationship swelling-collapse behaviour, studied evaluate suitability nanoparticles smart delivery systems (for active packaging)....
The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential two probiotic preparations, containing live lactic acid bacteria ( Lactococcus lactis CECT 539 and Lactobacillus casei 4043) their products fermentation (organic acids bacteriocins), as a replacement for antibiotics in stimulating health growth broiler chickens. effects supplementation both preparations (with proven effect weaned piglets) an antibiotic (avilamycin) on body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI), consumption efficiency (FCE),...
Abstract: We propose here a delivery drug‐polymer system using poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) nanohydrogels that enables pimaricin to be protected from hostile environments and allows the controlled release of antifungal through environmental stimuli. synthesized 2 nanohydrogels, 1 with 100% N‐isopropylacrylamide (PNIPA(5)) 80% copolymerized 20% acrylic acid (PNIPA‐20AA(5)). Both were then, loaded aqueous solution. The profiles these considerably different: PNIPA(5) released 10%...
Prebiotics are non-digestible compounds that promote intestinal microbiota growth and/or activity. Xylooligosaccharides (XOS) new prebiotics derived from the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic materials. Challenges in using those materials as sources for prebiotic lie extraction efficiency and safety ingredients. In this sense, work aims to optimize XOS production through direct enzymatic hydrolysis alkali pre-treated wheat straw without undesired byproducts. By increasing temperature...
The functional properties α-LA nanotubes and the gels formed during their synthesis were studied to evaluate potential applications. bioactivity of was improved by nanotubes, with significantly (p < 0.05) higher ACE-inhibitory (IACE) antioxidant activity (μmol TE/mg protein). IC50 (protein concentration inhibit 50% ACE activity) 281 ± 21 μg mL−1 1.28 0.01 μmol TE mg−1 protein. Besides, IACE-value when fragments incorporated into nanotube' structure considered, not only low MW peptides...
The influence of initial pH on growth and nutrient (total sugars, nitrogen, phosphorous) consumption by Enterococcus faecium CECT 410 was studied during batch cultures in whey. With these data, two realkalized fed-batch fermentations were developed using different feeding substrates. shift from homolactic to mixed acid fermentation, the biphasic kinetics observed for cell nitrogen increase concentrations biomass products (lactic acid, acetic ethanol, butane-2,3-diol) most noteworthy...