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Pasqual Maragall Foundation

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Mobile Device-assisted Dietary Ecological Momentary Assessments for the Evaluation of the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in a Continuous Manner

Anna Boronat¹, Joana Clivillé-Pérez², Natalia Soldevila-Domenech^1,2, Laura Forcano^1,3, Nieves Pizarro^1,2, Montserrat Fitó^3,4, Helmut Schröder^4,5, Karine Fauria⁶, Rafael de la Torre^1,2,3

¹Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neurosciences Research Group, Neurosciences Research Program, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), ²Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, University Pompeu Fabra, ³CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ⁴Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), ⁵CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), ⁶Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), Pasqual Maragall Foundation

Presented here is a study protocol aimed at monitoring continuous adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) by means of ecological momentary assessments. The method evaluates the intake of key food groups of the MedDiet and calculates an index of adherence.

Developmental Biology

Early Unguided Human Brain Organoid Neurovascular Niche Modeling into the Permissive Chick Embryo Chorioallantoic Membrane

Luciano Fiore^1,2, Jan Arderiu³, Andrea Martí-Sarrias^3,4, Isabel Turpín^3,4, Ruth I. Pareja^3,5, Arcadi Navarro^5,6,7,8, Mariana Holubiec^2,9, Julieta Bianchelli⁹, Tomas Falzone^2,9, Gonzalo Spelzini^1,2, Gabriel Scicolone^1,2, Sandra Acosta^3,4

¹Instituto de Biología Celular y Neurociencias “Prof. E. De Robertis” (IBCN), CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, ²Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Biología Celular, Histología, Embriología y Genética, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ³Institute of Neurosciences, Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics Dept, University of Barcelona, ⁴Functional Neurogenomics Group, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, ⁵IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ⁶Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ⁷Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, ⁸BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation, ⁹Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina (IBioBA) – CONICET – Instituto Partner de la Sociedad Max Planck

Here, we present a protocol to engraft human brain organoids at multiple maturation stages into the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). Brain organoids were grown following unguided standardized protocols.