  We study pseudoscalar $\pi$, $K$ and $\eta$ meson properties, such as masses
and couplings, in dense matter at zero temperature. We use a recently proposed
phenomenological quark model, known as the PNJL0, which takes into account the
confinement/deconfinement phase transition by means of the traced Polyakov loop
($\Phi$) which serves as an order parameter at zero temperature. We consider
two different scenarios, namely, symmetric quark matter with equal chemical
potentials for all the flavors, and the beta equilibrated matter. In the latter
case the hadron-quark phase transition is implemented by a two model approach.
For the hadron side we use a relativistic mean-field model with density
dependent couplings. We show that $\Phi$ induces abrupt changes in the mesons
properties with gap sizes regulated by the phenomenological gluonic sector of
the model.
