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Our PhD student, Carlos Alberto González is awarded with the Extraordinary Prize of the Master's Degree in Nutrition and Metabolism 2015-16.
The URV recognizes the students who have stood out in their promotion; 38 bachelor's and 46 university master's degrees receive the 2015-16 extraordinary awards.
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Joan Serrano defended his Doctoral Thesis. Congratulations!!
Joan Serrano finished his PhD. On Friday (16th June 2017) he defended his Doctoral Thesis entitled "Satianting properties of a grape seed proanthocyanidin extract".
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Book Chapter recently published in Gastrointestinal Tissue Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants.
Chapter 26. Ximena Terra, Anna Ardevol, Mayte Blay, Montserrat Pinent and Josepa Salvadó. Flavonoids as Protective Agents Against Diet-Induced Oxidative Damage at Gastrointestinal Tract, pgs: 327-338. A: Gastrointestinal Tissue Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants. Jordi Gracia-Sancho and Josepa Salvadó editors. ISBN: 978-0-12-805377-5. Copyright r 2017 Elsevier Inc. London, United Kingdom
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MoBioFood participates in the workshop "Chocolate and Science"
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Colleagues from the Imperial College London visited MoBioFood Research Group
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MoBioFood proposal has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence
The Eu Commission awards MoBioFood proposal with the Seal of Excellence
The Commission has awarded, for the first time, Seal of Excellence certificates to researchers in recognition of their high-quality research proposals under the Marie-Sk?odowska-Curie Actions. These are being awarded to all researchers whose MSCA Individual Fellowship proposals in 2016 had a score of 85% or above due to the highly-competitive nature of the MSCA programme.
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Recently published paper in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research
Our work entitled "Chronic supplementation with dietary proanthocyanidins protects from diet-induced intestinal alterations in obese rats" authored by Gil-Cardoso, Katherine, Ginés Iris, Pinent Montserrat, Ardévol Anna, Arola Lluís, Blay Mayte and Terra Ximena has just been published in the Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.
The present study investigated in obese rats the role of grape seed proanthocyanidin extract (GSPE) chronic treatment, taken in a low, moderate or high dose, on obesity-associated intestinal alterations in response to a cafeteria diet. GSPE decreased the ROS levels and MPO activity, without substantial differences among the doses. The supplementation with moderate and high GSPE doses significantly decreased iNOS expression compared to the CAF group, and the same pattern was observed in the low dose animals with respect to IL-1β expression. Moreover, the results show that GSPE significantly increases ZO-1 expression with respect to the CAF animals.
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Carlos A. González obtained a grant from the catalan government. Congratulations!!!
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MoBioFood welcomes Marieke! A new member of the research group
Marieke is a Master student from the Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany) and she is going to stay with us until the end of June. During her stay she will improve her skills on biochemistry and molecular biology techniques.
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New paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition
Our work entitled "A cafeteria diet triggers intestinal inflammation and oxidative stress in obese rats" authored by Gil-Cardoso K, Ginés I, Pinent M, Ardévol A, Terra X, Blay M has just been published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
In this study we describe the impact of an obesogenic diet on the gut health status of DIO rats in comparison with the Zucker (fa/fa) rat leptin receptor-deficient model of genetic obesity over time. Our results indicated that both the nutritional model and the genetic obesity model showed increased body weight and metabolic alterations at the final time point. An increase in intestinal ROS production and MPO activity was observed in the gastrointestinal tracts of rats fed a CAF diet but not in the genetic obesity model. TNF-α was overexpressed in the ileum of both CAF diet and fa/fa groups, and ileal inflammation was associated with the degree of obesity and metabolic alterations. We concluded that, in the hyperlipidic refined sugar diet model of obesity, the responses to chronic energy overload led to time-dependent increases in gut inflammation and oxidative stress.
