Research Group: ProNutri: Clinical Nutrition & Disease Programming
Thematic Line: TL1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Pharmacology and Pharmacy; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Clinical Neurology; Surgery; Genetics and Heredity; Neurosciences
updated on 19/03/2018
Nuno Borges is an integrated member of the Research group ProNutri of CINTESIS.
He graduated in Nutrition Sciences from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto (FCNAUP), and earned his Doctoral Degree in Human Biology from the Faculty of Medicine of the same university.
Nuno Norges has published more than one hundred scientific articles, and has a special interest in the field of the drug-nutrient interaction, namely in elderly.
He has participated in several scientific projects in the field of Nutrition, among which the most notable was his participation in Nutrition UP65 – a project that aimed to reduce nutritional inequalities in the Portuguese elderly population.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto (FCNAUP) and President of the Scientific Council of that institution. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Associação Portuguesa dos Nutricionista (Portuguese Society of Nutritionists) and Director of the journal Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição.
TITLE: Folates and aging: Role in mild cognitive impairment, dementia and depression
AUTHORS: Joao Ricardo Araujo; Fatima Martel; Nuno Borges; Joao Manuel Araujo; Elisa Keating;
SOURCE: AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS, VOLUME: 22, PUBLISHED: 2015
TITLE: Effect of gadopentetate dimeglumine or amiloride on brain mitochondrial diameter after experimental brain trauma
AUTHORS: Santos, JA; Borges, N; Sarmento, A; Azevedo, I;
SOURCE: Experimental Biology 2004 Meeting in FASEB JOURNAL, VOLUME: 18, ISSUE: 4, PUBLISHED: 2004
TITLE: Adrenergic mechanisms and blood-brain barrier permeability
AUTHORS: Sarmento, A; Borges, N; Azevedo, I;
SOURCE: CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, VOLUME: 33, ISSUE: 6, PUBLISHED: 2005
TITLE: Synthesis of 1-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-nitrophenyl)-2-phenyl-ethanone and derivatives as potent and long-acting peripheral inhibitors of catechol-O-methyltransferase
AUTHORS: Learmonth, DA; Vieira Coelho, MA; Benes, J; Alves, PC; Borges, N; Freitas, AP; Soares Da Silva, P;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, VOLUME: 45, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2002
TITLE: Effects of BIA 2-093, carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine on transmitter release: A microdialysis study
AUTHORS: Borges, N; Parada, A; Soares da Silva, P;
SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, VOLUME: 12, PUBLISHED: 2000