SCIENTIFIC-DISCIPLINARY SECTOR (SSD)

MED/49 Dietary Techniques Applied Sciences

 

RESEARCH TOPICS:

The research areas follow these orientations:

Epidemiology and etiology of obesity:

  • Techniques for detection of food consumption in populations of different age groups.
  • Body composition analysis
  • Basal metabolism
  • Bioimpedence analysis
  • Anthropometry
  • Plicometry

Evaluation of gene expression of key genes involved in obesity:

  • Genotyping by sequencing techniques
  • Pharmacological treatments with drugs used to treat mice and rats obesity in vivo
  • Molecular biology techniques as RNA, genomic and mitochondrial DNA extraction, cell cultures

 

KEYWORDS

Obesity, childhood obesity, Food Frequency Questionnaires, Mitochondrial biogenesis, Nitric Oxide, Metabolic Syndrome, Energy metabolism

 

COLLABORATION:

Prof. Michele Carruba Centro Studio e Ricerca sull’Obesità (C.S.R.O.) University of Milan

Prof. Alessandra Valerio University of Brescia

Prof. Maria da Conceição Alves Rainho Soares Pereira Centro de Investigação em Desporto, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano (CIDESD) University of Portugal “Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Vila Real”

 

OrcID

orcid.org/0000-0003-3650-7033