IITAA
IITAA (Institute for Investigation and Technology of Agronomy and Environment) is very much engaged and has the know how to pursuit studies on insular climate characterization / prediction and effects of global change on communities from the open ocean to the islands tops, modernize agriculture ... Read more »
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Elisabete Maria Castro Lima
Investigator Collaborator (Past Integrated Member)
Workgroup:Food Science and Health
Address:
Universidade dos Açores Campus de Ponta Delgada Apartado 1422 PT - 9501-801 Ponta Delgada Açores, Portugal
Telephone: +351 296 650 000
Email: elis@uac.pt
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Elisabete Lima is a member of the Chemistry Section of the Technological Science and Development Department (DCTD) from the University of Azores with a Ph. D. in Chemistry, Organic Chemistry specialty, with specialization in Natural Products Chemistry. She develops research in the extraction, separation, identification and bioactivity of secondary metabolites from Azorean plants and marine organisms with the objective of investigating and characterizing new molecular structures from Azorean natural products with promising bioactivity in therapeutic and agro-chemical fields. She also develops applied research in the Food Chemistry and was involved in the development of the collaboration protocols particularly with agro-food regional companies. She was involved in more than 20 research projects and performs technical-scientific advises in several research projects.
Selected publications:
- 1. TEIXEIRA T., RAINHA N., ROSA J.S., LIMA E.& BAPTISTA J. 2012. Molluscicidal activity of crude water and hexane extracts of Hypericum species on Radix peregra snails. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 31: 748-753. (IF: 2.8)
- 2. José Baptista, Elisabete Lima, Lisete Paiva, Ana L. Andrade and Maria G. Alves (2012). Comparison of Azorean Tea Theanine to teas from other origins by HPLC/DAD/FD. Effectof fermentation, drying temperature, drying time and shoot maturity. Food Chemistry 132: 2181-2187.
- 1. RAINHA N., KOCI K., COELHO A.V., LIMA E., BAPTISTA J. &FERNANDES-FERREIRA M. 2013. HPLC-UV-ESI-MS analysis of phenolic compounds and antioxidant properties in Hypericumundulatum shoot cultures and wild-growing plants. Phytochemistry 86: 83-91. (IF: 3.4).
- 2. Rainha N, Lima E, Baptista J, Fernandes-Ferreira, M. (2013). Content of hypericins from Plants and in Vitro Shoots of HypericumundulatumSchousb. exWilld. Natural Product Research 27(10): 869-879.
- 3. Rita Ferin, Maria Leonor Pavão, José Baptista (2013). Rapid sensitive and simultaneous determination of ascorbic and uric acids in human plasma by ion-exclusion HPLC-UV.Clinical Biochemistry 46: 665-669.
