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Proposals for Research Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2006

Health Sciences - Organs and Systems, Metabolism, Nutrition and Toxicology

    Painel de Avaliação de Orgãos e Sistemas, Metabolismo, Nutrição e Toxicologia - 2006
  • David Chambers
  • Adrian Bomford
  • Per-Anders Jansson
  • Alice Warley
  • Dora Pereira
PTDC/SAU-OSM/64084/2006

Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Doxorubicin-induced Selective Cardiotoxicity. Paulo Jorge Gouveia Simoes Da Silva Oliveira, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €115,800.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/64093/2006

Growth factors in health and disease. Maria João Gameiro de Mascarenhas Saraiva, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP). €173,897.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/64643/2006

Diabetes and the somatosensory system: effects of dysfunctions in insulin and its related peptides in painful diabetic neuropathy. Isaura Ferreira Tavares, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP). €92,324.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/65140/2006

Disruption of hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism by immunosuppressive agents: implications for diagnosis and treatment of posttransplant diabetes. John Griffith Jones, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €152,223.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/65599/2006

Bone marrow derived cell therapy for diabetes-associated erectile dysfunction. Carla Sofia Rodrigues da Costa, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP). €111,362.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/66323/2006

Nutraceuticals: a shield against chronic disease? -contribution for the rationale of a new therapeutic option-. António José Murinello de Sousa Guerreiro, Pró-INSA, Associação para a Promoção da Investigação em Saúde (Pró-INSA/INSARJ). €170,000.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/67498/2006

A new route for endothelial dysfunction on diabetes: From phenotypes to molecules. Henrique Girao, Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem (AIBILI). €170,795.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/67936/2006

Metabolic activity and viability of chondrocytes in cryopreserved human osteochondral allografts. Maria Celeste Fernandes Lopes, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €81,864.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/68204/2006

Changes in gastro-intestinal hormones after weight loss induced by bariatric surgery with gastric banding. Maria Helena Cardoso Pereira da Silva, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar da universidade do Porto (ICBAS/UP). €198,884.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/68473/2006

Towards the establishment of cell-based therapy for repairing cardiac-injury: characterization, purification and functional analysis of potential therapeutic-beneficial cell-subsets. Perpetua Pinto do Ó, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP). €193,228.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/70560/2006

Rationale and options in dietary use of canned sardines in olive oil and tomato (omega 3, lycopene, and oleic acid) related to inflammatory and aterotrombogenic biomarkers in obesity and metabolic syndrome related cardiovascular disease. Pedro Orlando Rodrigues, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM/UNL). €179,738.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/72443/2006

Disturbance of the physiologic pathways and molecular mechanisms regulating energy homeostasis in obesity and metabolic syndrome: searching new strategies and therapeutic targets. Carlos Palmeira, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €156,000.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/72635/2006

Validation of a predictive model to estimate the risk of conversion to clinically significant macular edema and/or vision loss in mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy in diabetes type 2. José Cunha-Vaz, Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem (AIBILI). €80,987.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/73449/2006

FIBRINOGEN-DEPENDENT SIGNALLING IN MICROVASCULAR BLOOD CELL FUNCTION - IMPLICATIONS OF INFLAMMATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Maria Carlota Saldanha Lopes, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa). €101,736.

PTDC/SAU-OSM/73576/2006

ORIGIN AND FATE OF EXTRACELLULAR PURINES REGULATING HUMAN BONE FORMATION. Paulo Correia de Sá, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar da universidade do Porto (ICBAS/UP). €85,324.