Carsten Carlberg, Stine Marie Ulven, Ferdinand Molnár

Nutrigenomics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319304151
• Artikelnr.: 46927196

Autorenporträt

Prof. Carsten Carlberg: Professor for biochemistry at the School of Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Eastern Finland. The main research interests of Prof. Carlberg are (epi)genomics of nuclear receptors and their ligands with special focus on vitamin D. So far he published more than 190 papers (H-index 50). Since 2003 he is lecturing yearly the course "Nutrigenomics", which is the basis of this textbook. Together with Dr. Molnár he also published the Springer textbook "Mechanisms of gene regulation".

Prof. Stine Marie Ulven: Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo (Norway). The main research interests of Prof. Ulven are human dietary intervention studies and diet-gene interactions with particular focus on the role of dietary fat in prevention of chronic diseases. She has in total published 43 papers (H-index of 18).

Dr. Ferdinand Molnár: Senior researcher at the School of Pharmacy, Institute of Biopharmacy, University of Eastern Finland. The main research interests of Dr. Molnár are the molecular structure of nuclear receptor proteins and their natural and synthetic ligands, on which he published more than 20 papers (H-index 14). Together with Prof. Carlberg he published the Springer textbook "Mechanisms of gene regulation".

Inhaltsangabe

Nutrition and common diseases.- Human genomic variation.- Sensing nutrition.- Nutrigenomics: Adapting the human genome to dietary changes and personalized nutrition.- Nutritional epigenomics.- Nutritional signaling and aging.- Chronic inflammation and metabolic stress.- Obesity.- Glucose homeostasis, insulin resistance and beta cell failure.- Diabetes.- Hypertension, atherosclerosis and dyslipidemias.- Metabolic syndrome.