Nutritional genomics : impact on health and disease /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brigelius-Flohé, Regina, Joost, Hans-Georg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2006]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Nutritional genomics : concepts, tools and expectation
  • Nuclear receptors : an overview
  • Mechanisms of action and cancer theraputic potential of retinoids
  • Nuclear receptors and the control of gene expression by fatty acids
  • Cellular adaptation to amino acid availability : mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene expression
  • Transcriptional regulation of hepatic genes by insulin and glucose
  • PPARs : lipid sensors that regulate cell differentiation processes
  • Advances in selenoprotein expression : patterns and individual variations
  • PPARs in atheroscloerosis
  • Protein systhesis and cancer
  • Mutations in the PPARγ gene relevant for diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
  • Regulation of lipogenic genes in obesity
  • The genetics of type 2 diabetes
  • Gene variants and obesity
  • Gene polymorphisms, nutrition, and the inflammatory response
  • Gene variants, nutritional parameters, and hypertension
  • Gene variants, nutrition, and cancer
  • Taste receptors and their variants
  • Cancer and gene variants in enzymes metabolizing dietary xenobiotics