Efeito dos compostos fenólicos do camu-camu e do cupuaçu no desenvolvimento da obesidade e diabetes mellitus tipo 2Ao meu marido Edgard, por seu amor, sua compressão e seu apoio em todas as fases deste trabalho. Você foi a pessoa que mais acreditou desde o começo, e seu incentivo foi fundamental! Obrigada por mudar sua vida para poder realizar um sonho meu! Aos meus pais Marina e Luiz Carlos e à minha irmã e amiga Marta pelo carinho, apoio incondicional e por sempre demonstrarem orgulho desta jornada.À minha querida prima e amiga Camila e ao meu irmão Roberto, mesmo que distantes fisicamente, por me tranquilizarem nos momentos difíceis e por me inspiraram como pesquisadores.Aos meus colegas de laboratório e amigos queridos: Alice, Carlos, Ciça, Daniel, Diully, Flavinha, Gabi Cunha, Gabi Pedrosa, Helô, Luana, Marcela, Marcio, Renata e Taty pela companhia, amizade e troca de conhecimentos, obrigada a todos vocês! À Fernanda Santana, por sua amizade e ajuda com as análises de lipídeos.À Beatriz Mendonça, "minha filhinha" querida, pela participação na parte experimental, sempre com comprometimento e alegria.À Joana, por nos ajudar a manter o "antigo" laboratório em ordem. The incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes reached epidemic proportions in recent years, arriving to billions of people around the world. The discovery of innovative ways that can reduce the metabolic abnormalities associated with these diseases is essential to minimize its impact on the population's quality of life and the economy of the countries. Many studies have demonstrated that food bioactive compounds have beneficial health effects. Camu-camu and cupuassu are native fruits of the Amazon region with unexplored agroeconomic potential, which contain a large number of phytochemical compounds that can act on body metabolism.Thus, the objective of this study was verify the effects of phenolic compounds of camu-camu and cupuassu extracts on the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes in vivo and in vitro, and identfy the possible metabolites involved in these effects. The phenolic compound-rich extracts were obtained from commercial frozen fruit pulps by solid phase extraction, characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC/DAD) and evaluated for inhibition of digestive enzymes activities in vitro. Then, the extracts were tested at two different doses (2.25 and 4.5 mg catechin equivalents/kg body weight for cupuassu; 7 and 14 mg of gallic acid equivalents/kg body weight for camu camu) in an animal model (C57BL/6J mice) of obesity and insulin resistance induced by high fat high sucrose diet. The effects of extract supplementation on glucose and lipid homeostasis were assessed by serum analysis, insulin and glucose tolerance tests in mice, and contents of fat in liver and fecal samples.Camu camu extract presented flavonols, ellagic acid and ellagitannins in its composition.Supplementation with camu camu phenolic extract reduced weight gain and decreased glucose and insulin intolerance independent of the dose administered. However...