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NSU College of Pharmacy Faculty Member Speaks at Oxford University
Malav S. Trivedi, Ph.D.
Malav S. Trivedi, M.S., Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at NSU’s College of Pharmacy, was invited as a guest speaker at the prestigious Oxford University, United Kingdom to present his current and previous research.
This presentation was a special seminar organized by the “Food and Behavior” organization, which is dedicated both to advancing scientific research into the links between nutrition and human behavior and to making the findings from such research available to the widest possible audience. His results indicate that opioids and food-derived opioid peptides can induce oxidative stress in neuronal and gut epithelial cells resulting in altered epigenetic status and might contribute to developmental changes. While in the U.K., Malav also presented his work at an annual Nutritional Society meeting held at Nottingham University, U.K. These findings are also relevant to the reported health benefits of a gluten-free/casein-free (GF/CF) diet as well as drug addiction. Malav is now working on further characterization of epigenetic and transcriptional changes in brain cells produced by food-derived opiate peptides, and their potential significance for neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders. He is also focusing on characterizing the epigenetic changes influenced by drug addiction.
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