Publicaciones

Towards Understanding the Role of Microstructured Edible Scaffolds for Cultured Meat Production.

Cultured meat is an emerging technology to produce edible muscles using animal cells, scaffolds, and bioreactors, avoiding the slaughter of farmed animals. In this work, an edible scaffold (film) with parallel microchannels formulated with marine biopolymers was made. The effect of parallel microchannels on the behavior of muscle cells and gene expression involved in fusion and myogenesis were assessed.

SEM images of the scaffolds. Microstructured and flat scaffolds are shown in a transvers and surface view.

Nanostructured electrochemical sensor applied to the electrocoagulation of arsenite in WWTP effluent.

A sensitive electroanalytical method for the determination of arsenite, based on a heterostructure of aminated multiwalled carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles, was applied in an electrocoagulation (EC) treatment for the elimination of arsenite.

TEM micrography of AuNP

Expression of Hv1 proton channels in myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and its potential role in T cell regulation.

The immunosuppression by MDSC is conditional to their ability to decrease the proton concentration elevated by the NOX2 activity, rendering Hv1 a potential drug target for cancer treatment.

Hv1 blocked by Zn(II) or CIGBI reduces ROS production

Spider Toxin SNX-482 Gating Modifier Spontaneously Partitions in the Membrane Guided by Electrostatic Interactions.

Spider toxin SNX-482 is a cysteine-rich peptide that interferes with calcium channel activity by binding to voltage-sensing domains of the CaV2.3 subtype.

Hv1 blocked by Zn(II) or CIGBI reduces ROS production

Mechanism of voltage sensing in Ca2+- and voltage-activated K+ (BK) channels.

In neurosecretion, allosteric communication between voltage sensors and Ca2+ binding in BK channels is crucially involved in damping excitatory stimuli. Nevertheless, the voltage-sensing mechanism of BK channels is still under debate.

Side (Left) and top (Right) views of the simulated system, where the h-BK channel, lipids, and water are presented in cartoon, transparent surface, and cyan representations, respectively.

On the effects of induced polarizability at the water–graphene interface via classical charge-on-spring models.

In this work, we have systematically studied, via molecular dynamics, two polarizable graphene models, denominated CCCP and CCCPD, employing the charge-on-spring model of the GROMOS forcefield, both being compatible with the polarizable water models COS/G2 and COS/D2, respectively

Side (Left) and top (Right) views of the simulated system, where the h-BK channel, lipids, and water are presented in cartoon, transparent surface, and cyan representations, respectively.

Optimization of N-PERT Solar Cell under Atacama Desert Solar Spectrum

In this work, we determined geometrical and doping parameters to optimize the power of an n-type bifacial passivated emitter and rear totally diffused solar cell (n-PERT).

SEM image of a silver finger of the n-PERT solar cell with a width around 50 µm and height of 10 µm after a single print.

Aquaporin Gating: A New Twist to Unravel Permeation through Water Channels.

The study of AQPs in their native membrane or overexpressed in heterologous systems have experimentally demonstrated that water membrane permeability can be reversibly modified in response to specific modulators.

General conduction mechanism in water-transporting aquaporins.