Acronym NA
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Mining marine materials for novel functional ingredients that modulate the immune response for benefit in inflammation and allergy Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Christine Loscher Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
DCU - Dublin City University (Ireland)
Institutions involved
UL - University of Limerick (Ireland) ,
Start year 2014 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 557,526 Website NA Summary Marine protein-derived materials have excellent potential as functional food ingredients. The development of functional “added-value” ingredients is a key priority for the expansion of the Irish Agri-Food sector. NutraMara has already established an extensive research programme mining marine species for ingredients with health benefits. This project will now build on and complement this programme by mining marine species for novel ingredients that can modulate the immune response in inflammation and allergy. This is in response to an identified need amongst Irish ingredient companies for such ingredients for their global customers for functional foods for infants, the elderly and sports participants. The project will involve existing NutraMara Principal Investigators at UL who will extract and hydrolyse the marine materials along with an Immunologist at DCU who is an expert in Immunomodulation and has extensive experience working with food companies. The key objective of the proposed programme is to identify new protein-derived ingredients that can modulate specific immune responses associated with a reduction of either inflammatory or allergic disease. This will be achieved by determining the effects of the marine extracts on key immune cells that mediate these diseases/conditions and assessing them in in vivo models of inflammatory and allergic disease
Keywords
Probiotics;
Extreme enzymes;
Human food;
Bioprospecting;
Bioactive compounds;
Human health;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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