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Little research has been published on emotional responses evoked by completely new, innovative food products. The objectives of the present study were 1) to assess the emotional response to new products (fruit and vegetable smoothies in a drink pouch) in two different scenarios: looking at the smoothie pouch, or tasting the smoothie with the smoothie pouch alongside; 2) to compare the information obtained when the participants use photographs or use words to express emotions. In the Pack-alone scenario, similar emotional spaces and sample configurations were obtained with both images and words. In the Pack-and-tasting scenario, the richness of the emotional response increased when using images. In both scenarios, the participants used a greater number of negative emotions when these were presented as images rather than as words. This could be considered an advantage, as it enables some negative emotional loads to be portrayed. The present results also demonstrate that evaluating the emotional response allows effective discrimination between samples with similar overall liking scores., The present work was supported by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT, Project PICT/2016/0723) and Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP). The authors are grateful to the Spanish Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness for financial support (AGL-2016-75403-R) and for the contract of author L. Laguna (Juan de la Cierva program-IJCI575 2016-27427) and to the regional government (Generalitat Valenciana Project Prometeo 2017/189)

Dols-Icardo, O. et al. Assessing the role of TUBA4A gene in frontotemporal degeneration. Neurobiology of Aging 38:215.e13-4 (2016). Artículo: 2 páginas y 1 tabla como material suplementario, The tubulin alpha 4a (TUBA4A) gene has been recently associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Interestingly, some of the mutation carriers were also diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) or mild cognitive impairment. With the aim to investigate the role of TUBA4A in FTD, we screened TUBA4A in a series of 814 FTD patients from Spain. Our data did not disclose any nonsense or missense variant in the cohort, thus suggesting that TUBA4A mutations are not associated with FTD., This work was supported in part by grants from CIBERNED and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain (SAF2014-59469-R to JPT), grants from the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra, Spain (refs.13085 and 3/2008), from the UTE project FIMA, Spain, from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI12/01311 to JC) and Fundació La Marató de TV3 (project nº 20143810 to RSV

In the last two decades, food scientists have advanced the development of new technologies for preservation of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables. The scientific achievements in this area are driven by increased consumption of these products and increasing consumer demand for fresh, safe, healthy, and natural products. This chapter describes the use of natural antimicrobials as an alternative to synthetic disinfectants to assure safety, preserve quality, and extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

This chapter describes the use of natural antimicrobials as an alternative to synthetic disinfectants in order to assure safety, preserve quality, and extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. It also discusses secondary responses induced by the application of natural agents (antioxidant and flavoring effects).

The present study is aimed to develop a process for production of functionalized scaffolds impregnated with natural compounds extracted from Patagonian Usnea lichen. A setup for an integrated supercritical CO2 extraction of natural compounds with posterior impregnation on solid matrices (polycaprolactone, PCL) is developed and presented here. In order to establish optimized operating conditions, supercritical extraction of Usnea as well as sorption kinetics and resulting material properties have been studied separately first. Usnea extracts isolated by supercritical carbon dioxide at 30 MPa and 40 °C have shown strong antibacterial activity with values of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) ranging from less than 1.25 μg/mL to 320 μg/mL against Listeria innocua and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRS) strains. Useful scaffolds of PCL for tissue engineering containing a porous structure with pore diameters between 150 and 340 μm can be obtained when PCL is exposed to carbon dioxide at 35 °C and 15 MPa. The degree of crystallinity of functionalized PCL was shown to be influenced by the incorporated antibacterial agent. The presented results showed that the impregnated PCL samples are promising bactericidal compounds against L. innocua. Screening of antibacterial activity of functionalized PCL against a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain showed a higher activity when a low bacterial inoculum level (2 × 104 Colony-forming Units/mL [CFU/mL]) was assayed. Fil: Fanovich, Maria Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales (i); Argentina; Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingenieria; Argentina; Fil: Ivanovic, J.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales (i); Argentina; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy; Serbia; Fil: Misic, D.. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Seribia; Fil: Alvarez, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingenieria; Argentina; Fil: Jaeger, P.. Hamburg University of Technology, Inst Thermal Process Engineering; Alemania; Fil: Zizovic, I.. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy; Serbia; Fil: Eggers, Rudolf. Hamburg University of Technology, Inst Thermal Process Engineering; Alemania