{"title":"New platforms for the downstream processing of biopharmaceuticals","authors":"A. Azevedo, M. Aires-Barros","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026043","url":null,"abstract":"The ageing of the European population continues to advance and will become one of the key driving forces of societal change in the decades ahead. The specific needs of an older generation for new affordable biopharmaceuticals such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to treat age-and prosperity-related diseases such as Alzheimer, cancer, or rheumatism, will increase considerably, reinforcing the demand for efficient, scalable and cost-effective production technologies. Continuous discoveries in molecular biology and genetics, combined with new advances in media and feed development, have significantly increased the production titres. In order to keep up this gain, it is now essential to design new, as well as to improve the existing downstream processes that remain an unresolved bottleneck. This project describes several alternatives to the currently established platforms for the downstream processing biopharmaceuticals, with main focus on aqueous two-phase extraction, magnetic separation and monolithic chromatographic, with integration of cell separation and bioproduct purification.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123020546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Almeida, T. Pereira, H. Pereira, J. Cardoso, C. Correia
{"title":"A cardiac signal monitoring and processing system","authors":"V. Almeida, T. Pereira, H. Pereira, J. Cardoso, C. Correia","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026046","url":null,"abstract":"The social and economic impact of cardiovascular diseases and the importance of efficient early diagnostic tools are self-evident. This project finds its motivation in the foreseeable impact that an accurate, non-invasive and easy-to-use instrument for hemodynamic condition assessment could introduce on the diagnosis and follow-up of these diseases. It aims at developing and testing of a microcontroller based signal monitoring device for cardiovascular studies. The advantages of this system show up in decreasing the associated cost, as well as in increasing its functionality, making the necessary human intervention minimal. The algorithmic component of the project will focus on the main hemodynamic issues currently addressed in literature: separating incident from reflected pulse waves (augmentation index), waveform variability and transfer function Although, additional studies are still required to attain clinical validation, this system seems to be a valid, low cost and easy to use alternative to the highly costly devices in the market.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115631351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catarina Dias de Almeida, M. Cesário, M.M.R. da Fonseca
{"title":"Production of biopolyhydroxyalkanoates","authors":"Catarina Dias de Almeida, M. Cesário, M.M.R. da Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026078","url":null,"abstract":"This work focuses on developing high productivity and economically viable processes for the production of biopolyesters with potential uses in biomedical fields. High cell density fed-batch cultures of Cupriavidus necator on waste glycerol were used to produce the copolymer P(3HB-co-4HB). The incorporation of 4HB monomers within the polymeric chain was achieved through the concomitant feeding of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL). Acetic and propionic acid were tested as stimulators to enhance 4HB incorporation. When propionic acid was used, a terpolymer P(3HB-co-4HB-co-3HV) was originated. P(3HB-co-4HB) copolymers with molar % of 4HB from 1.8 % to 12.3 % were produced with productivities between 0.09 g<inf>P(3HB–4HB)</inf>. L<sup>−1</sup>.h<sup>−1</sup> and 0.79 g<inf>P(3HB–4HB)</inf> L<sup>−1</sup>.h<sup>−1</sup>.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122577652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Membrane chromatography for therapeutic DNA production: Adsorption membranes development","authors":"M. Mateus, L. Raiado-Pereira, M. Prazeres","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026054","url":null,"abstract":"DNA vaccines and gene therapy have the potential to overcome several clinical pathologies such as infectious diseases and cancer. The active pharmaceutical ingredient in these therapeutics is plasmid DNA. This work describes the approach taken to develop and characterize adsorption membranes that can be used for membrane chromatography, boosting DNA therapeutics purification by better separation efficiency, increased solute selectivity and improved productivity. The membranes described herein were functionalized with alkyl or oleoyl ligands and these membranes were chemically and operationally characterized and compared with a commercial recently develop membrane for immunoglobulins purification.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123994730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the benefits of classical multidimensional scaling in Epileptic seizure prediction studies","authors":"B. Direito, C. Teixeira, A. Dourado","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026063","url":null,"abstract":"Algorithms for Epileptic seizure prediction using various features extracted from the multichannel Electroencephalo-graphic (EEG) signals, need to work in high dimensional spaces, leading to increased difficulties in computational time and convergence conditions. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is a technique to surpass this curse of dimensionality in classification problems. In this work we investigate the influence of dimensional reduction in classification performance by previously applying Multidimensional Scaling and then applying Support Vector Machines (SVM) to classify the brain state. Data from five patients of the European Database on Epilepsy of the FP7 EPILEPSIAE Project is used. The results show that dimension reduction improves less than expected the SVM performance.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117280178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago G Fernandes, M. M. Diogo, A. Fernandes-Platzgummer, C. Lobato da Silva, J. Cabral
{"title":"Effect of hypoxia on proliferation and neural commitment of embryonic stem cells at different stages of pluripotency","authors":"Tiago G Fernandes, M. M. Diogo, A. Fernandes-Platzgummer, C. Lobato da Silva, J. Cabral","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026039","url":null,"abstract":"We have studied the effect of low oxygen levels (2% O2), or hypoxia, in the expansion and neural commitment of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. When ES cells were maintained in culture with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), cell proliferation was reduced at low oxygen levels and a simultaneous reduction in cell viability was also observed. Morphological changes and different cell cycle patterns also occurred, suggesting some early differentiation under hypoxic conditions. However, when cells were maintained in a ground state of pluripotency, by inhibition of autocrine FGF4/ERK and GSK3 signaling, hypoxia did not affect cell proliferation, and did not induce early differentiation. Nevertheless, during neural commitment, low oxygen tension exerted a positive effect on early differentiation of ES cells, resulting in a faster commitment towards neural progenitors. Overall our results demonstrate the need to specifically regulate the oxygen content, especially hypoxia, along with other culture conditions, when developing new strategies for ES cell expansion and/or controlled differentiation.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116949109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic classification of cognitive states","authors":"C. Cabral, M. Silveira, P. Figueiredo","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026089","url":null,"abstract":"Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging has established itself as the most powerful technique available today to measure brain activity induced by a perceptual or cognitive state. The inverse problem is considered in this study; given the measured brain activity, our goal is to predict the perceptual state. Machine Learning algorithms were used to address this problem in this work. Multi-subject fMRI data analysis poses a great challenge for the machine learning paradigm, by its characteristics: the low Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), high dimensionality, small number of examples and inter-subject variability. To address this problem, several methods of classification and feature selection were tested. The main criterion of feature selection was mutual information in a univariate method, but a multivariate feature selection was also proposed. Both a single classifier and an ensemble of classifiers were tested. The ensemble of classifiers approach consisted on training an optimized classifier for each class and then the combination was made. The data analysed was obtained from three multi-subject experiments of visual stimulation with 4 classes of stimuli, at different magnetic field strengths. The ensemble of classifiers performs best for most data sets and methods of feature selection. In summary, the results suggest that a combination of classifiers can perform better than a single classifier, particularly when decoding stimuli associated with specific brain areas.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129134920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. F. Sousa, J. Loureiro, M. M. Diogo, J. Cabral, P. Freitas
{"title":"Magnetic separation of undifferentiated mouse Embryonic Stem (ES) cells from neural progenitor cultures using a microfluidic device","authors":"A. F. Sousa, J. Loureiro, M. M. Diogo, J. Cabral, P. Freitas","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026049","url":null,"abstract":"Embryonic Stem (ES) cells are cell lines derived directly from the pre-implantation embryo. The generation of pure populations of neural progenitors from ES cells and their further differentiation into neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes allows the potential use of these cells for the cure of neurodegenerative diseases and for neural drugs testing. An integrated device based on magnetophoresis, including microfluidic channels and incorporated high magnetic field gradients, was used to control the motion of cells, labeled with magnetic particles (MPs), through a biochip. In this work, the magnetophoretic device has been used for depletion of tumorogenic pluripotent stem cells from 46C mouse ES cell cultures by the specific recognition and labeling of the stage specific embryonic antigen 1 (SSEA-1). Purity degrees ranging from 95% to 99,5% were obtained and determined by flow cytometry analysis","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133440127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In vitro evaluation of osteoconductive starch based scaffolds under dynamic conditions","authors":"Ana I. Rodrigues, M. Gomes, I. Leonor, R. Reis","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026083","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research work is the in vitro evaluation of the osteogenic potential of fiber meshes scaffolds based on a blend of corn starch with poly-caprolactone with Si-OH groups using a flow perfusion bioreactor. Scaffolds based on a blend of corn starch with poly-caprolactone with Si-OH groups were seeded with human adipose stem cells and cultured in basal or osteogenic medium, under static and dynamic conditions for 7, 14 and 21 days. Starch with poly-caprolactone scaffolds were analysed in the same conditions and used as controls. The DNA quantification assay showed a high proliferation rate of human adipose stem cells cultured on scaffolds of of corn starch with poly-caprolactone with Si-OH groups in osteogenic medium under dynamic conditions. Furthermore, scanning electron microscopy images showed that cells penetrated into the pores of the scaffold and demonstrated the existence of some mineralization nodules with significant Calcium and Phosphorous levels as quantified by energy dispersive spectroscopy analysis. Osteogenic differentiation of human adipose stem cells was also confirmed by positive Alizarin Red staining in cell cultured scaffolds of corn starch with poly-caprolactone with Si-OH groups and by relevant ALP activity.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122886814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. D. dos Santos, Miguel C. Teixeira, N. Mira, T. R. Cabrito, M. Palma, Artur B. Lourenço, P. Dias, J. Guerreiro, A. Moreira, Sílvia F. Henriques, I. Sá-Correia
{"title":"Response and resistance to drugs and chemical stress in the yeast model: A genome-wide view","authors":"S. D. dos Santos, Miguel C. Teixeira, N. Mira, T. R. Cabrito, M. Palma, Artur B. Lourenço, P. Dias, J. Guerreiro, A. Moreira, Sílvia F. Henriques, I. Sá-Correia","doi":"10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026076","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we provide a brief overview on the activities of the Biological Sciences Research Group (BRSG) (http://groups.ist.utl.pt/bsrg/) of the Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering at Instituto Superior Te´cnico, involving OMICS and Molecular Systems Biology approaches applied to the understanding of mechanisms involved in the Yeast Stress Response. Genomics, chemogenomics, transcriptomics, quantitative proteomics and metabolomics are explored to get an integrative view on the response and resistance to drugs and other chemical stresses in the model eukaryote and industrial yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae.","PeriodicalId":206538,"journal":{"name":"1st Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Meeting","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121125432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}