Fish oil and fish meal increase the nutritional value of fish meat for human consumption. The aquafeed industry constantly assess new ingredients to improve flexibility and sustainability of the raw materials. The search for alternative ingredients could be helped by the development of an in vitro platform that could screen promising candidates in a fast and cheap way. Aim of this paper is to determine if a platform using rain...

Objectives Patient’s and therapist’s expectations are considered an important factor influencing placebo response in experimental and therapeutic settings. Nevertheless, the placebo effects of common neurological facilitators that promote treatment efficacy have not been explored. In the present study we examined the estimations of patients, therapists, and staff members, regarding their treatment type and assessed their influ...

Reliable and predictive in vitro models would support the search for new raw materials that can improve current fish diets. We recently developed some rainbow trout (RT) intestinal cell-based organotypic platforms demonstrating that the platform type modulates the degree of cell differentiation achieved in vitro and here we studied whether such differentiation correlates with their response to a prolonged exposure to a diet ri...