Search Results - "Almeida, I."

Long non-coding RNAs and cancer: a new frontier of translational research? by Spizzo, R, Almeida, M I, Colombatti, A, Calin, G A

“…Tiling array and novel sequencing technologies have made available the transcription profile of the entire human genome. However, the extent of transcription…”
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Lipids: biomarkers of healthy aging by Almeida, I., Magalhães, S., Nunes, A.

“…Life expectancy, and longevity have been increasing in recent years. However, this is, in most cases, accompanied by age-related diseases. Thus, it became…”
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Homocysteine metabolism, hyperhomocysteinaemia and vascular disease: An overview by Castro, R., Rivera, I., Blom, H. J., Jakobs, C., Almeida, I. Tavares

“…Summary Hyperhomocysteinaemia has been regarded as a new modifiable risk factor for atherosclerosis and vascular disease. Homocysteine is a branch‐point…”
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Social-pair judgment bias testing in slow-growing broiler chickens raised in low- or high-complexity environments by Lourenço-Silva, M. I., Ulans, A., Campbell, A. M., Almeida Paz, I. C. L., Jacobs, L.

“…Impacts of environmental complexity on affective states in slow-growing broiler chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) are unknown. Chickens’ performance in…”
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Environmental determinants of radiolarian assemblages in the western Pacific since the last deglaciation by Hernández‐Almeida, I., Cortese, G., Yu, P.‐S., Chen, M.‐T., Kucera, M.

“…Radiolarians are a very diverse microzooplanktonic group, often distributed in regionally restricted assemblages and responding to specific environmental…”
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Hydrographic control on carbon isotope fractionation in coccolithophores in the North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene by Hernández-Almeida, I., Guitián, J., Tanner, T., Zhang, H., Stoll, H.M.

“…The carbon isotopic fractionation during photosynthesis (Ɛp) from sedimentary alkenone biomarkers produced by coccolithophores is a widely used proxy for…”
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Quantitative reconstruction of primary productivity in low latitudes during the last glacial maximum and the mid-to-late Holocene from a global Florisphaera profunda calibration dataset by Hernández-Almeida, I., Ausín, B., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Baumann, K.-H., Stoll, H.M.

“…Ocean net primary productivity (Npp) is a key component of the marine carbon cycle. Multi-model Npp projections based on a few decades of satellite data show…”
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Valproic acid metabolism and its effects on mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation: A review by Silva, M. F. B., Aires, C. C. P., Luis, P. B. M., Ruiter, J. P. N., IJlst, L., Duran, M., Wanders, R. J. A., Tavares de Almeida, I.

“…Summary Valproic acid (VPA; 2- n -propylpentanoic acid) is widely used as a major drug in the treatment of epilepsy and in the control of several types of…”
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Bacterial cellulose membranes as drug delivery systems: An in vivo skin compatibility study by Almeida, I.F., Pereira, T., Silva, N.H.C.S., Gomes, F.P., Silvestre, A.J.D., Freire, C.S.R., Sousa Lobo, J.M., Costa, P.C.

“…Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a highly pure form of cellulose, produced in the form of a swollen membrane by several bacteria that demonstrated to be able to…”
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Impact of suborbital climate changes in the North Atlantic on ice sheet dynamics at the Mid-Pleistocene Transition by Hernández-Almeida, I., Sierro, F. J., Cacho, I., Flores, J. A.

“…Early and Mid‐Pleistocene climate, ocean hydrography and ice sheet dynamics have been reconstructed using a high‐resolution data set (planktonic and…”
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Tropically-driven climate shifts in southwestern Europe during MIS 19, a low eccentricity interglacial by Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Rodrigues, T., Hodell, D.A., Polanco-Martínez, J.M., Alonso-García, M., Hernández-Almeida, I., Desprat, S., Ferretti, P.

“…The relative roles of high- versus low-latitude forcing of millennial-scale climate variability are still not well understood. Here we present…”
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Recent temperature trends in the South Central Andes reconstructed from sedimentary chrysophyte stomatocysts in Laguna Escondida (1742ma.s.l., 38°28S, Chile) by De Jong, R., Schneider, T., Hernández–Almeida, I., Grosjean, M.

“…In this study we present a quantitative, high resolution reconstruction of past austral winter length in the Chilean Andes at 38°S from AD 1920 to 2009. For…”
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Chrysophyte cyst-inferred variability of warm season lake water chemistry and climate in northern Poland: training set and downcore reconstruction by Hernández-Almeida, I, Grosjean, M, Tylmann, W, Bonk, A

“…Chrysophyte cyst assemblages from sediment trap and surface sediment samples of 50 lakes in northern Poland were related to environmental variables using…”
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Strand-Specific miR-28-5p and miR-28-3p Have Distinct Effects in Colorectal Cancer Cells by Almeida, Maria I, Nicoloso, Milena S, Zeng, Lizhi, Ivan, Cristina, Spizzo, Riccardo, Gafà, Roberta, Xiao, Lianchun, Zhang, Xinna, Vannini, Ivan, Fanini, Francesca, Fabbri, Muller, Lanza, Giovanni, Reis, Rui M, Zweidler–McKay, Patrick A, Calin, George A

“…Background & Aims MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can promote or inhibit tumor growth and are therefore being developed as targets for cancer therapies. They are diverse…”
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Photostabilization strategies of photosensitive drugs by Coelho, L., Almeida, I.F., Sousa Lobo, J.M., Sousa e Silva, J.P.

“…[Display omitted] Several active compounds are sensitive to light, especially to the ultraviolet radiation (UV-R) leading to their degradation or modification,…”
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Dynamic flux of microvesicles modulate parasite–host cell interaction of Trypanosoma cruzi in eukaryotic cells by Ramirez, M.I., Deolindo, P., Messias‐Reason, I.J., Arigi, Emma A., Choi, H., Almeida, I.C., Evans‐Osses, I.

“…Extracellular vesicles released from pathogens may alter host cell functions. We previously demonstrated the involvement of host cell‐derived microvesicles…”
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Dendritic Cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles mediate Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell recruitment by Silva, Andreia M., Almeida, Maria I., Teixeira, José H., Maia, André F., Calin, George A., Barbosa, Mário A., Santos, Susana G.

“…Orchestration of bone repair processes requires crosstalk between different cell populations, including immune cells and mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSC)…”
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Oxygen control in bioreactor drives high yield production of functional hiPSC-like hepatocytes for advanced liver disease modelling by Vicente, Pedro, Almeida, Joana I., Crespo, Inês E., Virgolini, Nikolaus, Isidro, Inês A., Calleja-Cervantes, Maria Eréndira, Rodriguez-Madoz, Juan R., Prosper, Felipe, Alves, Paula M., Serra, Margarida

“…Hepatocytes-like cells (HLC) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells show great promise for cell-based liver therapies and disease modelling…”
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A chrysophyte-based quantitative reconstruction of winter severity from varved lake sediments in NE Poland during the past millennium and its relationship to natural climate variability by Hernández-Almeida, I., Grosjean, M., Przybylak, R., Tylmann, W.

“…Chrysophyte cysts are recognized as powerful proxies of cold-season temperatures. In this paper we use the relationship between chrysophyte assemblages and the…”
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How Inflammation Impinges on NAFLD: A Role for Kupffer Cells by Penha-Gonçalves, Carlos, Almeida, Joana I., Patarrão, Rita S., Coelho, Inês C., Duarte, Nádia, Macedo, M. Paula

“…Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rapidly becoming the most prevalent cause of liver disease worldwide and afflicts adults and children as currently…”
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