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Silvia Lino

Department of Oceanography and Fisheries- University of the Azores
Verified email at uac.pt
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From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health

P Murage, HR Batalha, S Lino, K Sterniczuk - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Peninah Murage and colleagues argue that biodiversity is the cornerstone of healthy natural
habitats. Its preservation is vital to human health and should therefore be embedded into …

LabHorta: a controlled aquarium system for monitoring physiological characteristics of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus

A Colaço, R Bettencourt, V Costa, S Lino… - ICES Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Silvia Lino , Silvia Lino … Ana Colaço, Raul Bettencourt, Valentina Costa, Silvia Lino,
Humberto Lopes, Inês Martins, Luis Pires, Catarina Prieto, Ricardo Serrão Santos, LabHorta: a …

A guide to extant coccolithophores (Calcihaptophycidae, Haptophyta) using light microscopy

M Frada, J Young, M Cachão, AMS Lino… - Journal of …, 2010 - digituma.uma.pt
We present here a collection of light microscope, and comparative scanning electron microscope,
images of extant coccolithophores, sampled from various oceanic locations, and also …

Assessment of Azorean ancestry by Alu insertion polymorphisms

CC Branco, R Palla, S Lino, PR Pacheco… - American Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of population ancestry from genetic markers is essential, for example,
to understand the history of human migration and to carry out admixture and association …

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) on Sal Island, Cape Verde: nesting activity and beach surveillance in 2009

SPP Lino, E Gonçalves, J Cozens - Arquipelago. Life and Marine …, 2010 - repositorio.uac.pt
Surveys for Caretta caretta nesting activities were performed during the nesting seasons
from the middle of June to end of October 2009 on Sal Island, Cape Verde. A total of 3628 …

Lipid extractions from marine deep-sea invertebrates: modifications to the Bligh & Dyer method to increase lipid yields

SPP Lino, B Solé, V Matos, R Pereira… - Arquipélago. Life and …, 2013 - repositorio.uac.pt
Silvia Lino and Joana R. Xavier were supported by PhD and postdoctoral grants from
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, (FCT - Ministry of Science and Technology of Portugal), …

Evaluation of antimalarial properties from Azores deep-sea invertebrate extracts: a first contribution

S Lino, M Machado, D Lopes, V do Rosário, RS Santos… - bioRxiv, 2015 - biorxiv.org
Several deep-sea marine invertebrates were collected from hydrothermal vents, seamounts
and cold coral assemblages in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores islands. The effect …

Bioprospecting deep-sea marine animal lipids from Azores for therapeutic applications

SPP Lino - 2015 - repositorio.uac.pt
Azores region presents a great diversity of deep-sea ecosystems with faunal communities in
a variety of benthic hotspots, as seamounts, islands slopes and hydrothermal vents. Despite …

[PDF][PDF] Abundances of the natural analgesic Nitenin in marine sponges: the case of the north Atlantic in south Portuguese coast

S Lino, D Hartmann, B Fragoso, M Babiarz, P Lima - researchgate.net
In 2015, Sea4Us identified Nitenin, a major component extracted from a marine sponge, as
an antagonist of delaying rectifier potassium (K+) channels. Patent WO2021/019373 A1 …

Sponge perforating lace coral with anticancer activity

SPP Lino, J Xavier, RS Santos… - Arquipélago-Life and …, 2015 - repositorio.uac.pt
… of California San Diego, who kindly accepted Silvia Lino as collaborator at his lab to …
Silvia Lino was supported by PhD grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, (FCT - …