Liver disease is a major source of morbidity and mortality in children with short bowel syndrome (SBS). SBS-associated microbial dysbiosis has recently been implicated in the development of SBS-associated liver disease (SBS-ALD), however the pathological implications of this association have not been explored. In this study high-throughput sequencing of colonic content from the well-validated p...

1 CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal; 7 [email protected] 8 2 Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal 9 3 CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Rua Camara Pestana, no6, 6A, edifício II, 10 piso 3, 1150-082 Lisbon, Portugal 11 4 CICECO-Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro,...

Background: The microbial genome sequences provide solid in silico framework for interpretation their drug-like chemical scaffolds biosynthetic potential. The Pseudomonas fluorescens species is metabolically versatile and producing therapeutically important natural products.Objectives: The main objective of the present study was to mine the publically available data of P. fluorescens stra...

The large diversity in the microorganisms explain why they are involved in many industrial microbial processes. The industrial microbial processes concern fermented food preparations, microbial cell and metabolite productions and wastes processing. They are made in fundamentally the same way with three steps: pretreatment of raw matter, microbial conversion, and product recovery. The obtaining ...

The use of a high quercetin dose to demonstrate its absorption and bioavailability does not reflect the real dietary situation because quercetin glycosides are usually present in small amounts in the human diet. This study aimed to demonstrate the absorption and bioavailability of quercetin in mulberry leaves that represents a more physiologic dietary situation. Mulberry leaf ethanol extract wa...

The use of epigenetic modifiers, such as histone deacetylase inhibitors and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors, has been explored increasingly as a technique to induce the production of additional microbial secondary metabolites. The application of such molecules to microbial cultures has been shown to upregulate otherwise suppressed genes, and in several cases has led to the production of new mo...