Investigación
Síntesis de compuestos bioactivos
Síntesis de nuevos compuestos bioactivos con actividad antioxidante de interés alimentario y biológico.
Diseño de nanosistemas funcionales
Desarrollo de sistemas funcionales para encapsular, proteger y liberar de manera controlada componentes bioactivos.
Reactividad química en sistemas coloidales
Optimización de la reactividad química en la región interfásica de los sistemas coloidales, particularmente, de los sistemas emulsionados.
Estrés oxidativo y tratamiento antioxidante
Impacto de la distribución y de la concentración interfásica de antioxidantes naturales para minimizar la degradación oxidativa de biomoléculas.
Sobre nosotros
El grupo Antiox une los esfuerzos de investigadores de EEUU, Portugal, Chile, Polonia y España con conocimientos de reactividad química en sistemas organizados, química de los alimentos y nanomedicina.
Desarrollamos modelos mecanísticos para optimizar la reactividad en medios heterogéneos (sistemas alimentarios y biológicos) mediante el uso de componentes bioactivos con propiedades antioxidantes.
Aportamos nuestros conocimientos tanto en el campo de la ciencia básica como en el de la ciencia aplicada colaborando con diversas universidades y empresas del sector privado.
Grupo
Carlos Bravo-Díaz
Sonia Losada-Barreiro
Galería
Últimas noticias
Te presentamos EmulCicloFood, un proyecto centrado en el estudio de estrategias computacionales y experimentales para el diseño racional de emulsiones, desde convencionales a Pickering, para aplicaciones alimentarias
EmulCicloFood propone un enfoque novedoso bio-inspirado desde un punto de vista multidisciplinario pero inclusivo para abordar algunos de estos problemas mediante la combinación del uso de estabilizadores de grado alimentario, AOs naturales y estrategias de encapsulación.
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Una tesis desarrolla nuevas estrategias para mejorar la eficacia antioxidante en emulsiones alimentarias enriquecidas con omega 3
Reportaje en el diario de la universidad de Vigo sobre la Tesis de una compañera de nuestro equipo, Josefa Freiría. Buen trabajo Josefa!!
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Control of antioxidant efficiency of chlorogenates in emulsions: modulation of antioxidant interfacial concentrations. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Background Controlling the interfacial concentrations of antioxidants (AOs) in O/W emulsions can be regarded as an unique approach for increasing the efficiency of AOs in inhibiting the oxidation of lipids. Classical methods to determine the AO distribution in binary systems cannot be employed and their distribution needs to be assessed in the intact emulsion
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The location of amphiphobic antioxidants in micellar systems: the diving-swan analogy
The location of antioxidants (AOs) in a micellar system was determined with the aid of a recently described protocol.
The protocol was applied to trolox, caffeic, and gallic acid derivatives of increasing hydrophobicities.
The amphiphobic nature of the AOs determined their insertion and orientation in the micellar interface.
Their behaviour in a hetero-phasic system was rationalized with a pictorial simile, the “diving-swan” analogy.
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Differential partitioning of lipophilic bioantioxidants in edible oil-water and octanol-water
Partition coefficients, PWO, of antioxidants (AOs) between edible oils and water are scarce in the literature, despite that AOs are widely used to control lipid oxidation and the oxidative stress in cells. PWO values have a great importance to predict the efficiency and distribution of bioactives at different levels of biological organization from binary oil–water systems to living cells
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Enhancement of the antioxidant efficiency of gallic acid derivatives in intact fish oil-in-water emulsions throught optimization of their interfacial concentrations
The antioxidant (AO) efficiencies and the distributions of gallic acid (GA) and a series of alkyl gallates (propyl, PG, butyl, BG, octyl, OG and lauryl, LG) were determined in intact fish oil-in-water emulsions. The efficiency of the AOs in inhibiting the oxidation of the fish oil lipids increases upon increasing AO hydrophobicity up to a maximum (∼3-fold) at the octyl derivative, after which the efficiency decreases (LG)
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Modulating the interfacial concentration of gallates to improve the oxidative stability of fish oil-in-water emulsions
The distributions of some gallates were determined in intact fish oil emulsions.
% gallates at the interface increases upon increasing surfactant volume fraction ΦI.
On the contrary, their interfacial concentrations decrease upon increasing ΦI.
Their efficiencies correlate directly with the gallate interfacial concentrations.
Butyl and octyl gallates were the most suitable to protect the fish emulsions.
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Partitioning of aryl radicals in micellar systems
Determining the association constants of radicals to biomimetic systems is not a simple task because of the inherent experimental difficulties associated to their “in‐situ” generation together with their high chemical instability, requiring the use of radical trapping agents in combination with, for example, magnetic (eg, EPR) and/or time‐resolved techniques (eg, frequency comb spectroscopy) to indentify and quantify them. Here, we have exploited the unique electrochemical properties of arenediazonium ions, ArN2+, to estimate the association constant of the electrochemically generated aryl radicals derived from benzenediazonium ions, BD, with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles
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Toxicity of phenolipids: Protocatechuic acid alkyl esters trigger disruption of mitochondrial membrane potential and caspase activation in macrophages.
Phenolipids are a class of phenolic compounds with a lipidic moiety that have been receiving increasing attention due to their promising biological activities; however data regarding their toxicity and mechanism of action are scarce. A series of 11 phenolipids consisting of alkyl esters derivatives of the natural molecule protocatechuic acid was synthesized and evaluated against a panel of cancer and non-cancer cell lines
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