Daniela Nunes-Costa
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Recent Articles
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Matos G, Nunes-Costa D, Pinto D, Martins C, Silva J, Leocadio P, et al.
Environ Toxicol
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39921560
Methylmercury (MeHg) is markedly toxic to humans. Our study explores whether MeHg and high-fat diet (HFD) can impair the intestinal barrier with microbiota dysbiosis in mice. Weanling mice were fed...
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Munoz-Pinto M, Candeias E, Melo-Marques I, Esteves A, Maranha A, Magalhaes J, et al.
Mol Neurodegener
. 2024 Oct;
19(1):78.
PMID: 39449004
Background: In Parkinson's patients, intestinal dysbiosis can occur years before clinical diagnosis, implicating the gut and its microbiota in the disease. Recent evidence suggests the gut microbiota may trigger body-first...
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Maranha A, Alarico S, Nunes-Costa D, Melo-Marques I, Roxo I, Castanheira P, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2024 Jul;
12(7).
PMID: 39065193
The prospect of drinking water serving as a conduit for gut bacteria, artificially selected by disinfection strategies and a lack of monitoring at the point of use, is concerning. Certain...
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Goncalves S, Nunes-Costa D, Cardoso S, Empadinhas N, Marugg J
Front Microbiol
. 2022 May;
13:873555.
PMID: 35495641
Serotonin is a phylogenetically ancient compound found in animals, plants, and some bacteria. In eukaryotes, serotonin is synthesized from the aromatic amino acid tryptophan the key enzymes aromatic amino acid...
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Esteves A, Munoz-Pinto M, Nunes-Costa D, Candeias E, Silva D, Magalhaes J, et al.
Gut
. 2021 Nov;
72(1):73-89.
PMID: 34836918
Objective: Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by alpha-synuclein (aSyn) aggregation and death of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Recent evidence posits that PD may initiate in the gut by...
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Silva D, Candeias E, Esteves A, Magalhaes J, Ferreira I, Nunes-Costa D, et al.
J Neuroinflammation
. 2020 Nov;
17(1):332.
PMID: 33153477
Background: After decades of research recognizing it as a complex multifactorial disorder, sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) still has no known etiology. Adding to the myriad of different pathways involved, bacterial...
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Nunes-Costa D, Magalhaes J, G-Fernandes M, Cardoso S, Empadinhas N
Front Aging Neurosci
. 2020 Apr;
12:26.
PMID: 32317956
The neurotoxin β--methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is a natural non-proteinogenic diamino acid produced by several species of both prokaryotic (cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic (diatoms and dinoflagellates) microorganisms. BMAA has been shown to biomagnify...
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Alarico S, Nunes-Costa D, Silva A, Costa M, Macedo-Ribeiro S, Empadinhas N
Microbiology (Reading)
. 2020 Feb;
166(5):474-483.
PMID: 32100712
is so far the most thermophilic among mycobacteria as it grows optimally at 50 °C and up to 65 °C in a glycerol-based medium, as verified in this study. Since...
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Manso J, Nunes-Costa D, Macedo-Ribeiro S, Empadinhas N, Pereira P
mBio
. 2019 May;
10(3).
PMID: 31088917
have long been the main source of antibiotics, secondary metabolites with tightly controlled biosynthesis by environmental and physiological factors. Phosphorylation of exogenous glucosamine has been suggested as a mechanism for...
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Pereira S, Alarico S, Tiago I, Reis D, Nunes-Costa D, Cardoso O, et al.
BMC Microbiol
. 2019 Mar;
19(1):62.
PMID: 30890149
Background: Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous in nature and recognized agents of opportunistic infection, which is often aggravated by their intrinsic resistance to antimicrobials, poorly defined therapeutic strategies and by...