Bracale Renata
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