Metabolic Basis of Obesity

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ahima, Rexford S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Endocrinology.; Gastroenterology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Human Physiology.

The obesity epidemic has generated immense interest in recent years due to the wide-ranging and significant adverse health and economic consequences that surround the problem. Much attention has been focused on behaviors that lead to obesity, in particular to over consumption of energy-dense food an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Principles of human energy metabolism
• 2. Intermediary metabolism of carbohydrate, protein and fat
• 3. Adipose tissue development, structure, function
• 4. Adipokines in health and disease
• 5. Neural control of feeding and energy homeostasis
• 6. Gastrointestinal hormones and obesity
• 7. Genes and human obesity
• 8. Classical hormones linked to obesity
• 9. Inflammation and adipose dysfunction
• 10. Insulin resistance in the metabolic syndrome
• 11. Pancreatic islet b-cell function in obesity
• 12. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the metabolic syndrome
• 13. Sleep, circadian rhythms and metabolism
• 14. Obesity and cardiac dysfunction
• 15. Atherogenic lipid metabolism in obesity
• 16. Gut microbes, immunity and metabolism
• 17. Impact of obesity on female reproductive health
• 18. Lessons from HIV lipodystrophy and drug-induced metabolic dysfunction
• 19. Principles of obesity therapy.