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Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado presents a wide variety of natural products, including the Pequi (Caryocar brasiliense). The important factor that determines the dietary and nutritional ideality of protein is degestitibility. This work aims to evaluate the protein digestibility of Pequi seeds and the presence of anti-nutritional factors. The protein Pequi almonds were extracted, toasted and untoasted. Evaluation digestibility was structurally characterized by SDS-PAGE 15%, which can be used to analyze simulated gastric fluid (SFG) and digestion in intestinal fluid (SFI) in the presence of pepsin and trypsin/chymotrypsin. The extract from Pequi almonds showed inhibitory activity and was not detected hemagglutination. The intensity of the bands according to 2S albumins, after heat treatment, did not decrease in comparison to the condition native, significantly. In the crisp crude extract, which was incubated under SGF and SIF, the intensity of the corresponding bands at 8 and 3 kDa was resistant to SGF and indigestible after 4 hours under SIF. The characterization of Pequi almonds demonstrated that the product of the crude extract has anti-nutritional factors, which were confirmed by evaluating digestibility.
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Introdução: O controle do perfil lipídico é uma das medidaschave para se reduzir a incidência de eventos cardíacos em coronariopatas. Objetivamos com este estudo determinar qual componente lipídico sérico tem maior influência no tamanho do ateroma por meio da análise de lesões coronarianas moderadas ao ultrassom intracoronariano. Método: Realizamos análise com ultrassom intracoronariano de 35 lesões moderadas em uma série consecutiva de 31 pacientes com indicação para o procedimento, realizando medidas das áreas da secção transversa (CSA) da membrana elástica externa (MEE), do lúmen, e da placa e média (P&M), e a carga de placa na área luminal mínima lesional (ALM)...
Objectives: Lipid profile control is a key measure in order to reduce the incidence of future cardiac events in the setting of coronary artery disease. We aim to determine which lipid profile parameter has greater influence on atheroma size using intravascular ultrasound analysis of moderate lesions. Methods: We performed intravascular ultrasound analysis in a consecutive series of 31 patients presenting 35 moderate lesions, measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of vessel, lumen, plaque & media (P&M) and plaque burden at the minimal lumen area...