Evaluating the bioactive capacity of Concord grape (Vitis labrusca) pomace extract on skeletal muscle in a healthy and intestinally inflamed in-vivo model (Gallus gallus): a preliminary study
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Abstract
Grape pomace (GP) is among the many food byproducts that are strong candidates for upcycling. GP, rich in polyphenols, is known to influence both intestinal and systemic tissue health and metabolism. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the bioactivity of GP in skeletal muscle (SM) under both intestinally inflamed, dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) challenged, and healthy conditions in-ovo (Gallus gallus). DSS-challenge induced pro-atrophic phenotypic shifts, reducing myofiber diameter by approximately 35 %, concomitant to nearly 2-fold reductions in myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs), Myogenin and MyoD, gene expression, and enriched fast-glycolytic myofiber type development. These effects were generally abolished by concurrent Concord grape pomace extract (GPE) application. Independently, GPE increased both MRF expression and promoted slow-oxidative fiber type distributions in diseased and healthy cohorts. These findings highlight the connection between intestinal and SM health and demonstrate GP's nutraceutical potential as a bioactive modifier of SM health.
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Journal of Functional Foods continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. We give authors the possibility to publish their top-quality papers in a well-established leading journal in the food and nutrition fields. The Journal will keep its rigorous criteria to screen high impact research addressing relevant scientific topics and performed by sound methodologies.
The Journal of Functional Foods aims to bring together the results of fundamental and applied research into healthy foods and biologically active food ingredients.
The Journal is centered in the specific area at the boundaries among food technology, nutrition and health welcoming papers having a good interdisciplinary approach. The Journal will cover the fields of plant bioactives; dietary fibre, probiotics; functional lipids; bioactive peptides; vitamins, minerals and botanicals and other dietary supplements. Nutritional and technological aspects related to the development of functional foods and beverages are of core interest to the journal. Experimental works dealing with food digestion, bioavailability of food bioactives and on the mechanisms by which foods and their components are able to modulate physiological parameters connected with disease prevention are of particular interest as well as those dealing with personalized nutrition and nutritional needs in pathological subjects.