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Promoting Motor Development in Children in the COVID-19 era : Science and Applications
2022
Fundamental movement skills, physical activity, and motivation toward Finnish school physical education : a fundamental movement skills intervention
2012
Studying autonomous motives in physical education and leisure time contexts
2007
Children’s outdoor movement education: position statement
2021
This position statement follows to the thematic round table organized by S.I.E.M.eS. (Italian Society of Movement and Sport Education) as final event of the international congress on "Outdoor movement education" held in Bozen, Italy, december 3-5, 2020. Today’s lifestyle with interesting electronic devices attracts young children to spend time inside instead going out to play in a physically active manner. At the same time, recent research evidence has shown that outdoor active play (outdoor play) offers multiple advantages to children’s development and health. In December 2020, the University of Bozen organized an international congress on the relevance of outdoor movement education and ou…
Influence of Digital Coaching on Physical Activity : Motivation and Behaviour of Physically Inactive Individuals
2018
Digital wellness solutions and their use have become increasingly common. Respectively, the need to understand their users and usage has increased. A general problem with wellness technologies is that they typically provide feedback through numbers and graphs instead of providing actual guidance. One potential and novel solution for this is digital coaching. This study is one of the first to examine digital coaching features and their influence. We define digital coaching in the context of sports and wellness technology and investigate its influence on physical activity motivation and behaviour of physically inactive individuals. The study is based on thematic analysis of 20 semi-structured…
Effects of Long-Term Physical Activity and BCAA Availability on the Subcellular Associations between Intramyocellular Lipids, Perilipins and PGC-1&al…
2023
Cellular skeletal muscle lipid metabolism is of paramount importance for metabolic health, specifically through its connection to branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) metabolism and through its modulation by exercise. In this study, we aimed at better understanding intramyocellular lipids (IMCL) and their related key proteins in response to physical activity and BCAA deprivation. By means of confocal microscopy, we examined IMCL and the lipid droplet coating proteins PLIN2 and PLIN5 in human twin pairs discordant for physical activity. Additionally, in order to study IMCLs, PLINs and their association to peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α) in cytosolic…
Production and optimization of exocellular lipases produced by Proteus mirabilis
2016
Lipazy są wytwarzane przez rośliny, zwierzęta i mikroorganizmy, ale tylko te pochodzenia mikrobiologicznego są ważne dla przemysłu ze względu na zróżnicowane właściwości enzymatyczne i specyficzność substratową. Mimo że enzymy te są syntetyzowane przez wiele gatunków mikroorganizmów, to nadal poszukuje się nowych, środowiskowych szczepów zdolnych do syntezy zewnątrzkomórkowych lipaz. Celem przeprowadzonych badań była ocena aktywności lipolitycznej Proteus mirabilis w zależności od pH oraz temperatury. Aktywność lipolityczną analizowano w zakresie pH 4-9 oraz w temperaturach 5-60ºC. Do oznaczenia aktywności lipolitycznej posłużono się metodą miareczkową, a wyniki podano jako ilość uwolnionyc…
Comparison between Citral and Pompia Essential Oil Loaded in Phospholipid Vesicles for the Treatment of Skin and Mucosal Infections
2020
Citrus species extracts are well known sources of bio-functional compounds with health-promoting effects. In particular, essential oils are known for their antibacterial activity due to the high content of terpenes. In this work, the steam-distilled essential oil from the leaves of Citrus limon var. pompia was loaded in phospholipid vesicles. The physico-chemical characteristics of the essential oil loaded vesicles were compared with those of vesicles that were loaded with citral, which is one of the most abundant terpenes of Citrus essential oils. The biocompatibility of the vesicles was assessed in vitro in human keratinocytes. Furthermore, the antimicrobial activity of the vesicles was t…
Magnolol and Honokiol: Two Natural Compounds with Similar Chemical Structure but Different Physicochemical and Stability Properties
2021
Magnolia spp. extracts are known for their use in traditional Korean, Chinese, and Japanese medicine in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, anxiety, and allergies. Among their main components with pharmacological activity, the most relevant are magnolol and honokiol, which also show antitumoral activity. The objectives of this work were to study some physicochemical properties of both substances and their stability under different conditions of temperature, pH, and oxidation. Additionally, liposomes of honokiol (the least stable compound) were formulated and characterized. Both compounds showed pH-dependent solubility, with different solubility–pH profiles. Magnolol showed a lower …