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KUSANO, Carlos; FERRARI, Bucalen  e  FERRAZ SILVA, Elizabeth Aparecida. Perspectivas da pesquisa em biologia molecular aplicada à nutrição. INCI [online]. 2002, vol.27, n.11, pp.592-598. ISSN 0378-1844.

American countries have an enormous biodiversity of plants and animals, which offers many dietetic biomolecules with potential benefits to human health. This paper describes and discusses some aspects of molecular biology applied to the research of antioxidant substances with cardioprotective and neuroprotective properties, and proapoptotic molecules able to induce the programmed killing of tumor cells. For advances on the discovery of new diet factors, healthy to human, the consolidation of multidisciplinary research groups in food and nutrition it is necessary

Palavras-chave : Antioxidante ; Apoptose ; Aterosclerose ; Câncer ; Expressão Gênica ; Obesidade .