Metabolic Basis of Obesity
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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