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- CanisOme — The protein signatures of Canis lupus familiaris diseasesPublication . Fernandes, Mónica; Rosa, Nuno; Esteves, Eduardo; Correia, Maria José; Arrais, Joel; Ribeiro, Paulo; Vala, Helena; Barros, MarleneAlthough the applications of Proteomics in Human Biomedicine have been explored for some time now, in animal and veterinary research, the potential of this resource has just started to be explored, especially when companion animal health is considered. In the last years, knowledge on the Canis lupus familiaris proteome has been accumulating in the literature and a resource compiling all this information and critically reviewing it was lacking. This article presents such a resource for the first time. CanisOme is a database of all proteins identified in Canis lupus familiaris tissues, either in health or in disease, annotated with information on the proteins present on the sample and on the donors. This database reunites information on 549 proteins, associated with 63 dog diseases and 33 dog breeds. Examples of how this information may be used to produce new hypothesis on disease mechanisms is presented both through the functional analysis of the proteins quantified in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors and through the study of the interactome of C. lupus familiaris and Leishmania infantum. Therefore, the usefulness of CanisOme for researchers looking for protein biomarkers in dogs and interested in a comprehensive analysis of disease mechanisms is demonstrated.
- Food Waste: Consumer perspective.Publication . Ribeiro, Paulo; Anjos, Ofélia; Gonçalves Oliveira Valente da Cruz-Lopes, Luísa Paula; Guiné, Raquel de Pinho FerreiraThis research was developed to investigate people’s attitudes towards food waste and how these possibly change according to sociodemographic groups. The consumer study was carried out in 16 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and United States of America), and involved 11916 participants. The main questions related to food waste were: Q1. When I cook I have in mind the quantities to avoid food waste; Q2. It is important to me that the food I eat comes from my own country; Q3. I avoid going to restaurants that do not have a recovery policy of food surplus. The questionnaire as applied online and for the treatment of the data, the SPSS was used, considering a level of significance of 5% in all tests. Parametric tests (T-test and ANOVA) were used to compare means between groups. A classification tree analysis was also performed, following the Classification and Regression Trees (CRT) algorithm with cross-validation. The results allowed confirming that the country was the most influential factor of all variables considered, and statistically significant differences were between groups for practically all sociodemographic variables, in terms of avoiding food waste when cooking at home, choosing foods locally and preferring restaurants that promote food recovery. In conclusion, this work showed an interesting perspective of how sociodemographic and geographic variability can shape consumer’s attitudes regarding food waste.
- Inovação num produto tradicional – Requeijão aromáticoPublication . Ribeiro, Paulo; Guiné, Raquel