The Molecular Nutrition of Fats
- 1st Edition - October 29, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Vinood Patel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 2 9 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 2 9 8 - 4
The Molecular Nutrition of Fats presents the nutritional and molecular aspects of fats by assessing their dietary components, their structural and metabolic effects on the cell,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Molecular Nutrition of Fats presents the nutritional and molecular aspects of fats by assessing their dietary components, their structural and metabolic effects on the cell, and their role in health and disease. Subject areas include molecular mechanisms, membranes, polymorphisms, SNPs, genomic wide analysis, genotypes, gene expression, genetic modifications and other aspects. The book is divided into three sections, providing information on the general and introductory aspects, the molecular biology of the cell, and the genetic machinery and its function. Topics discussed include lipid-related molecules, dietary lipids and lipid metabolism, high fat diets, choline, cholesterol, membranes, trans-and saturated fatty acids, and lipid rafts.
Other sections provide comprehensive discussions on G protein-coupled receptors, micro RNA, transcriptomics, transcriptional factors, cholesterol, triacylglycerols, beta-oxidation, cholesteryl ester transfer, beta-oxidation, lysosomes, lipid droplets, insulin mTOR signaling and ligands, and more.
- Summarizes molecular nutrition in health as related to fats
- Discusses the impact of fats on cancer, heart disease, dementia, and respiratory and intestinal disease
- Includes preclinical, clinical and population studies
- Covers the genome, the whole body and whole communities
- Includes key facts, a mini dictionary of terms and summary points
Researchers, professionals (including nutritionists, dieticians, health scientists, health care professionals, policy makers), educators, and students
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 29, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 470
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128112977
- eBook ISBN: 9780128112984
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Vinood Patel
Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is currently Professor in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of liver disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress in neurological disorders and iron dysregulation in diabetes. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to the use or investigation of active agents or components. These books include The Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and Epigenetics, Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition, Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Toxicology: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Molecular Nutrition: Vitamins, The Neuroscience of Pain, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He is Editor of the ten-volume series Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications.
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Reader, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Westminster, London, UKRead The Molecular Nutrition of Fats on ScienceDirect