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Antonio González-Sarrías

Antonio González-Sarrías

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
11287
World Ranking
13251
National Ranking
273

Overview

Antonio González-Sarrías is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Nursing. Their research work emphasizes Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's publications focus on several key topics:

  • Pomegranate: compositions and health benefits
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Curcumin's Biomedical Applications
  • Sesame and Sesamin Research
  • Cynara cardunculus studies
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer

Antonio González-Sarrías has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • Food & Function
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Antioxidants

Selected recent papers include:

  • Where to Look into the Puzzle of Polyphenols and Health? The Postbiotics and Gut Microbiota Associated with Human Metabotypes, 2020, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • Urolithins: a Comprehensive Update on their Metabolism, Bioactivity, and Associated Gut Microbiota, 2022, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • Main drivers of (poly)phenol effects on human health: metabolite production and/or gut microbiota-associated metabotypes?, 2021, Food & Function
  • Milk-Derived Exosomes as Nanocarriers to Deliver Curcumin and Resveratrol in Breast Tissue and Enhance Their Anticancer Activity, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Evidence for health properties of pomegranate juices and extracts beyond nutrition: A critical systematic review of human studies, 2021, Trends in Food Science & Technology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors:

  • Juan Carlos Espín (35 publications)
  • Juan Antonio Giménez-Bastida (26 publications)
  • María Ángeles Ávila-Gálvez (25 publications)
  • María V. Selma (10 publications)
  • Francisco A. Tómas-Barberán (8 publications)

Best Publications

  • Anti-inflammatory properties of a pomegranate extract and its metabolite urolithin-A in a colitis rat model and the effect of colon inflammation on phenolic metabolism

    Mar Larrosa;Antonio González-Sarrías;María J. Yáñez-Gascón;María V. Selma

  • The gut microbiota: A key factor in the therapeutic effects of (poly)phenols

    Juan Carlos Espín;Antonio González-Sarrías;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán

  • Resveratrol and clinical trials: the crossroad from in vitro studies to human evidence.

    Joao Tomé-Carneiro;Mar Larrosa;Antonio González-Sarrías;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán

  • Urolithins, the rescue of "old" metabolites to understand a "new" concept: Metabotypes as a nexus among phenolic metabolism, microbiota dysbiosis, and host health status.

    Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán;Antonio González-Sarrías;Rocío García-Villalba;María A. Núñez-Sánchez

  • Ellagic acid metabolism by human gut microbiota: consistent observation of three urolithin phenotypes in intervention trials, independent of food source, age, and health status.

    Francisco A Tomás-Barberán;Rocío García-Villalba;Antonio González-Sarrías;María V Selma

  • Effect of a low dose of dietary resveratrol on colon microbiota, inflammation and tissue damage in a DSS-induced colitis rat model.

    Mar Larrosa;María Josefa Yañéz-Gascón;María Victoria Selma;Antonio González-Sarrías

  • Urolithins, ellagic acid-derived metabolites produced by human colonic microflora, exhibit estrogenic and antiestrogenic activities.

    Mar Larrosa;Antonio González-Sarrías;María Teresa García-Conesa;Francisco A Tomás-Barberán

  • Occurrence of urolithins, gut microbiota ellagic acid metabolites and proliferation markers expression response in the human prostate gland upon consumption of walnuts and pomegranate juice.

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Juan A. Giménez-Bastida;María T. García-Conesa;María B. Gómez-Sánchez

  • Targeted metabolic profiling of pomegranate polyphenols and urolithins in plasma, urine and colon tissues from colorectal cancer patients

    María A. Nuñez‐Sánchez;Rocío García‐Villalba;Tamara Monedero‐Saiz;Noelia V. García‐Talavera

  • NF-κB-dependent anti-inflammatory activity of urolithins, gut microbiota ellagic acid-derived metabolites, in human colonic fibroblasts

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Mar Larrosa;Francisco Abraham Tomás-Barberán;Piero Dolara

  • Clustering according to urolithin metabotype explains the interindividual variability in the improvement of cardiovascular risk biomarkers in overweight-obese individuals consuming pomegranate: A randomized clinical trial.

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Rocío García-Villalba;María Romo-Vaquero;Cesarettin Alasalvar

  • Where to Look into the Puzzle of Polyphenols and Health? The Postbiotics and Gut Microbiota Associated with Human Metabotypes.

    Adrián Cortés-Martín;María Victoria Selma;Francisco Abraham Tomás-Barberán;Antonio González-Sarrías

  • Ellagitannin metabolites, urolithin A glucuronide and its aglycone urolithin A, ameliorate TNF-α-induced inflammation and associated molecular markers in human aortic endothelial cells.

    Juan A. Giménez-Bastida;Antonio González-Sarrías;Mar Larrosa;Francisco Tomás-Barberán

  • Availability of polyphenols in fruit beverages subjected to in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and their effects on proliferation, cell-cycle and apoptosis in human colon cancer Caco-2 cells

    Antonio Cilla;Antonio González-Sarrías;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán;Juan Carlos Espín

  • Gene expression, cell cycle arrest and MAPK signalling regulation in Caco-2 cells exposed to ellagic acid and its metabolites, urolithins

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Juan-Carlos Espín;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán;María-Teresa García-Conesa

  • Identifying the limits for ellagic acid bioavailability: A crossover pharmacokinetic study in healthy volunteers after consumption of pomegranate extracts

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Rocío García-Villalba;M. Ángeles Núñez-Sánchez;Joao Tomé-Carneiro

  • Non-extractable polyphenols produce gut microbiota metabolites that persist in circulation and show anti-inflammatory and free radical-scavenging effects

    Antonio González-Sarrías;Juan Carlos Espín;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán

  • Neuroprotective Effects of Bioavailable Polyphenol-Derived Metabolites against Oxidative Stress-Induced Cytotoxicity in Human Neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y Cells

    Antonio González-Sarrías;María Ángeles Núñez-Sánchez;Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán;Juan Carlos Espín

  • The gut microbiota metabolism of pomegranate or walnut ellagitannins yields two urolithin-metabotypes that correlate with cardiometabolic risk biomarkers: Comparison between normoweight, overweight-obesity and metabolic syndrome.

    María V. Selma;Antonio González-Sarrías;Jordi Salas-Salvadó;Cristina Andrés-Lacueva

  • Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Foods and Derived Products Containing Ellagitannins and Anthocyanins on Cardiometabolic Biomarkers: Analysis of Factors Influencing Variability of the Individual Responses.

    María Teresa García-Conesa;Karen Chambers;Emilie Combet;Paula Pinto

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Carlos Espín
Juan Carlos Espín Spanish National Research Council
Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán
Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán Spanish National Research Council
Navindra P. Seeram
Navindra P. Seeram University of Rhode Island
María V. Selma
María V. Selma Spanish National Research Council
Christine Morand
Christine Morand University of Clermont Auvergne
Cristina Andres-Lacueva
Cristina Andres-Lacueva University of Barcelona
Pedro Mena
Pedro Mena University of Parma
Paul A. Kroon
Paul A. Kroon Norwich Research Park
Daniele Del Rio
Daniele Del Rio University of Parma
Kieran M. Tuohy
Kieran M. Tuohy Fondazione Edmund Mach

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