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[...]the SPB XXI meeting in Évora University extended its biochemistry boundaries by absorbing several topics, namely molecular mechanisms of disease; plant biology and biotechnology; toxicology and environmental biochemistry; structural biology and molecular modeling; neurobiology of aging and stress; functional genomics and systems biology; membranes and cell biophysics; proteins in health and environment; chemical biology, drug discovery, and development; and art, biochemistry, and innovation in life sciences, as well as a COVID-19 special session, because of the pandemic circumstances (Figure 1). The three original papers described a mobile laboratory taking molecular genetics to schools, even during the COVID-19 pandemic period [7], and presented cEpiderm as a promising canine skin model for the non-animal safety testing of veterinary pharmaceuticals and/or cosmetics [8] and nitric oxide production from nitrite plus ascorbate during ischemia upon hippocampal glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor stimulation [9], while the communication paper focused on the project UALGORITM, a journal freely accessible online, written in Portuguese by researchers at the University of Algarve and revised by school students [10]. Professor João Ramalho-Santos is a well-known professor in the Portuguese biochemist scientific community in the field of reproductive biology and metabolism, aging, and disease, studying, among other topics, aging and oocyte competence [22]. [...]Professor Ramalho-Santos and collaborators promoted several papers using comics for science communication with recognized success [23]. Previous studies from the same group have shown that gold compounds are high-affinity inhibitors of Ca2+-ATPase activity in purified plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase (PMCA) fractions, and they exert strong cytotoxic effects in human neuroblastoma cells [24].

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Title
Selected Papers from the XXI SPB National Congress of Biochemistry 2021
Author
Aureliano Manuel 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Leonor, Cancela M 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Costa, Ana R 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Antunes, Célia M 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar), Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; [email protected] 
 Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar), Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; [email protected], Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Algarve Biomedical Center, (ABC), Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal 
 Department of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Health and Human Development and CREATE—Centre of Sci-Tech Research for the Earth System and Energy, Universidade de Évora, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal; [email protected] (A.R.C.); [email protected] (C.M.A.) 
First page
7
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
26736411
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3223876132
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© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.