Publications by Flurina Schwander

Impact of milk processing on the generation of peptides during digestion

Martinus Gijs, Guy Vergères, Flurina Schwander, Reto Portmann

Milk processing may induce changes in dairy product composition and influence digestibility and nutrient bioavailability. Differences in protein degradation and peptide generation were studied for beta-lactoglobulin and alpha(S1)-casein from commercially a ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

From food to physiology characterization and in vitro digestion of milk products and investigation of postprandial metabolism and inflammation after a high-fat meal intake in a human nutrition intervention study

Flurina Schwander

According to the World Health Organization worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. The World health statistics 2012 report shows that one in six adults is obese, one in ten diabetic and one in three has a raised blood pressure. Overweight and o ...

EPFL2013

The NutriChip project - translating technology into nutritional knowledge

Martinus Gijs, Sandro Carrara, Paolo Silacci, Guy Vergères, Flurina Schwander, Reto Portmann

Advances in food transformation have dramatically increased the diversity of products on the market and, consequently, exposed consumers to a complex spectrum of bioactive nutrients whose potential risks and benefits have mostly not been confidently demons ...

Cambridge University Press2012

NutriChip - A lab-on-a-chip platform to investigate food absorption and underlying immune regulations

Martinus Gijs, Paolo Silacci, Guy Vergères, Flurina Schwander, Reto Portmann

Federation Amer Soc Exp Biol2012

Nutrichip: an integrated microfluidic system for in vitro investigation of the immunemodulatory function of dairy products

Martinus Gijs, Sandro Carrara, Paolo Silacci, Hamideh Jafarpoorchekab, Guy Vergères, Flurina Schwander

We introduce the concept of the NutriChip, a miniaturized artificial human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) for investigating the potential of immuno-modulatory function of dairy food. More specifically, we are investigating the effect of digested milk on immu ...

2011