Chronobiology and Obesity

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Garaulet, Marta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Ordovás, Jose M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Endocrinology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Biomedicine general.

Circadian rhythms are such an innate part of our lives that we rarely pause to speculate why they even exist. Perhaps this is the reason why in the medical practice the circadian variability of hormones, metabolites, physiological behaviors or the relevance of time in the presence or absence of diff...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Discovery of the Clock mutant and the first mammalian clock gene and the links to obesity: Staring with animal #25
• An introduction to chronobiology
• Adipose tissue as a peripheral clock
• Processes Underlying Chronodisruption and their Proposed Association with illness
• Obesity and Chronodisrruption:  An imbalance between energy intake and expenditure
• Sleep and MetS alterations
• Increased risk of diabetes due to obesity: does chronodisruption play a role?
• Genetics in chronobiology and obesity
• Chronobiology And Metabolic-Syndrome: From Genes To Systems Biology
• Index.