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Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques

Bio: Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques is an academic researcher from IAC. The author has contributed to research in topics: Essential oil & Extraction (chemistry). The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 112 publications receiving 3067 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcia Ortiz Mayo Marques include Sao Paulo State University & State University of Campinas.


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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of temperature, pressure and the addition of co-solvent (ethanol (EtOH) and isopropyl alcohol (IsoC3), both at 1.17% (mass)) on the kinetics of extraction of ginger oleoresin were studied.
Abstract: The effects of temperature, pressure and the addition of co-solvent (ethanol (EtOH) and isopropyl alcohol (IsoC3), both at 1.17% (mass)) on the kinetics of extraction of ginger oleoresin were studied. The design used was a 2×2×3 factorial (pressure 200 and 250 bar; temperature: 25 and 35 °C; solvent: CO2, CO2+EtOH, CO2+IsoC3). The experimental setup used was a fixed bed extractor with diameter of 2.76×10−2 m and length of 0.387 m. The assays were carried out at a mean solvent flow rate of 5.86×10−5 kg/s and with a bed apparent density of 350 kg/m3. The identification of the substances present in the oleoresin was performed by GC-MS; GC-FID was used to determine the ginger extract compositions. The antioxidant activity of the extract fractions was determined using the coupled oxidation of linolenic acid and β-carotene. The results show that the temperature and the interaction of the pressure and the solvent significantly affected the total yield. For the mass transfer rate, the effect of the interaction of the pressure and the solvent was significant; the mass transfer rate increased with the pressure in the absence of the co-solvent and decreased when ethanol and isopropyl alcohol were used. The major substances present in the ginger extracts were α-zingiberene, gingerols and shogaols; the amounts of these compounds were significantly affected by temperature, pressure and solvent. Nonetheless, the antioxidant activity of the ginger extracts remained constant at ≈80% and decreased to ≈60% in the absence of gingerols and shogaols. The Sovova's model quantitatively described the overall extraction curves.

229 citations

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TL;DR: The Sovová model described quite well the experimental overall extraction curves.
Abstract: Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) from aniseed using carbon dioxide was performed at 30 °C and pressures of 80−180 bar. The chemical composition of the SFE extract was determined by GC-MS; the quantitative analysis was done by GC-FID and TLC. The total amount of extractable substances or global yield (mass of extract/mass of feed) for the SFE process varied from 3.13 to 10.67% (mass). The solubilities of the anise essential oil in CO2 were 0.0110, 0.0277, 0.0143, and 0.0182 kg of solute/kg of CO2 at 80, 100, 140, and 180 bar, respectively. The major compounds identified and quantified in the extracts were anethole (∼90%), γ-himachalene (2−4%), p-anisaldehyde (<1%), methylchavicol (0.9−1.5%), cis-pseudoisoeugenyl 2-methylbutyrate (∼3%), and trans-pseudoisoeugenyl 2-methylbutyrate (∼1.3%). The Sovova model described quite well the experimental overall extraction curves. Keywords: Aniseed; chemical composition; Pimpinella anisum; mass transfer rate; solubility; supercritical extraction

183 citations

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TL;DR: The rosemary extracts exhibited the strongest antioxidant and the lowest antimycobacterial activities, and ginger and turmeric extracts showed selective anticancer activities.
Abstract: In the present study the antioxidant, anticancer, and antimycobacterial activities of extracts from ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), and turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) were evaluated. The extracts were obtained using supercritical CO(2) with and without ethanol and/or isopropyl alcohol as cosolvent. The extracts' antioxidant power was assessed using the reaction between beta-carotene and linolenic acid, the antimycobacterial activity against M. tuberculosis was measured by the MABA test, and their anticancer action was tested against nine human cancer ancestries: lung, breast, breast resistant, melanoma, colon, prostate, leukemia, and kidney. The rosemary extracts exhibited the strongest antioxidant and the lowest antimycobacterial activities. Turmeric extracts showed the greatest antimycobacterial activity. Ginger and turmeric extracts showed selective anticancer activities.

163 citations

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TL;DR: Given that LIM and OEC are excellent flavoring agents and also present gastroprotective actions, they can be regarded as a promising target for the development of a new drug for the prevention of gastric damage.

155 citations

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TL;DR: The ability to inhibit aflatoxin production as a new biological activity of A.conyzoides L. indicates that it may be considered as a useful tool for a better understanding of the complex pathway of a flatoxin biosynthesis.

150 citations


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TL;DR: For the next few weeks the course is going to be exploring a field that’s actually older than classical population genetics, although the approach it’ll be taking to it involves the use of population genetic machinery.
Abstract: So far in this course we have dealt entirely with the evolution of characters that are controlled by simple Mendelian inheritance at a single locus. There are notes on the course website about gametic disequilibrium and how allele frequencies change at two loci simultaneously, but we didn’t discuss them. In every example we’ve considered we’ve imagined that we could understand something about evolution by examining the evolution of a single gene. That’s the domain of classical population genetics. For the next few weeks we’re going to be exploring a field that’s actually older than classical population genetics, although the approach we’ll be taking to it involves the use of population genetic machinery. If you know a little about the history of evolutionary biology, you may know that after the rediscovery of Mendel’s work in 1900 there was a heated debate between the “biometricians” (e.g., Galton and Pearson) and the “Mendelians” (e.g., de Vries, Correns, Bateson, and Morgan). Biometricians asserted that the really important variation in evolution didn’t follow Mendelian rules. Height, weight, skin color, and similar traits seemed to

9,847 citations

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TL;DR: The various aspects associated with the design of microalgae production units are described, giving an overview of the current state of development of algae cultivation systems (photo-bioreactors and open ponds).
Abstract: Sustainable production of renewable energy is being hotly debated globally since it is increasingly understood that first generation biofuels, primarily produced from food crops and mostly oil seeds are limited in their ability to achieve targets for biofuel production, climate change mitigation and economic growth. These concerns have increased the interest in developing second generation biofuels produced from non-food feedstocks such as microalgae, which potentially offer greatest opportunities in the longer term. This paper reviews the current status of microalgae use for biodiesel production, including their cultivation, harvesting, and processing. The microalgae species most used for biodiesel production are presented and their main advantages described in comparison with other available biodiesel feedstocks. The various aspects associated with the design of microalgae production units are described, giving an overview of the current state of development of algae cultivation systems (photo-bioreactors and open ponds). Other potential applications and products from microalgae are also presented such as for biological sequestration of CO 2 , wastewater treatment, in human health, as food additive, and for aquaculture.

5,158 citations

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TL;DR: The objectives of BIOS 781 are to present basic population and quantitative genetic principles, including classical genetics, chromosomal theory of inheritance, and meiotic recombination, and methods for genome-wide association and stratification control.
Abstract: LEARNING The objectives of BIOS 781 are to present: OBJECTIVES: 1. basic population and quantitative genetic principles, including classical genetics, chromosomal theory of inheritance, and meiotic recombination 2. an exposure to QTL mapping methods of complex quantitative traits and linkage methods to detect co-segregation with disease 3. methods for assessing marker-disease linkage disequilibrium, including case-control approaches 4. methods for genome-wide association and stratification control.

1,516 citations

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TL;DR: An overview of current knowledge about the antibacterial properties and antibacterial mode of action of essential oils and their constituents is provided, and research avenues that can facilitate implementation of essential oil constituents as natural preservatives in foods are identified.
Abstract: Essential oils are aromatic and volatile liquids extracted from plants. The chemicals in essential oils are secondary metabolites, which play an important role in plant defense as they often possess antimicrobial properties. The interest in essential oils and their application in food preservation has been amplified in recent years by an increasingly negative consumer perception of synthetic preservatives. Furthermore, food-borne diseases are a growing public health problem worldwide, calling for more effective preservation strategies. The antibacterial properties of essential oils and their constituents have been documented extensively. Pioneering work has also elucidated the mode of action of a few essential oil constituents, but detailed knowledge about most of the compounds’ mode of action is still lacking. This knowledge is particularly important to predict their effect on different microorganisms, how they interact with food matrix components, and how they work in combination with other antimicrobial compounds. The main obstacle for using essential oil constituents as food preservatives is that they are most often not potent enough as single components, and they cause negative organoleptic effects when added in sufficient amounts to provide an antimicrobial effect. Exploiting synergies between several compounds has been suggested as a solution to this problem. However, little is known about which interactions lead to synergistic, additive, or antagonistic effects. Such knowledge could contribute to design of new and more potent antimicrobial blends, and to understand the interplay between the constituents of crude essential oils. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of current knowledge about the antibacterial properties and antibacterial mode of action of essential oils and their constituents, and to identify research avenues that can facilitate implementation of essential oils as natural preservatives in foods.

1,509 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an updated overview on the principal applications of two clean processes, supercritical fluid extraction and subcritical water extraction, used to isolate natural products from different raw materials, such as plants, food by-products, algae and microalgae.

1,090 citations