Oxidative stress and inflammatory mechanisms in obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome
By: edited by Lester Packer, Helmut Sies.
Contributors: Packer, Lester.; Sies, H. 1942-
Series: Oxidative stress and disease -- 23
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781420043785
Subjects: Oxidative stress; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Diabetes; Metabolic Syndrome X -- physiopathology; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- physiopathology; Inflammation -- physiopathology; Obesity -- physiopathology; Oxidative Stress -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The metabolic syndrome defined / Neil J. Stone and Jennifer Berliner; title: The metabolic syndrome: the question of balance between the pro-inflammatory effect of macronutrients and the anti-inflammatory effect of insulin / Paresh Dandona ... [et al.]; title: The role of oxidative stress in diseases associated with overweight and obesity / Ginger L. Milne ... [et al.]; title: Metabolic syndrome due to early life nutritional modifications / Malathi Srinivasan, Paul Mitrani, and Mulchand S. Patel; title: Oxidative stress and antioxidants in the perinatal period / Hiromichi Shoji, Yuichiro Yamashiro, and Berthold Koletzko; title: Maternal obesity, glucose intolerance, and inflammation in pregnancy / Janet C. King; title: Obesity, nutrigenomics, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes / David Heber; title: Post-prandial endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation in type 2 diabetes / Antonio Ceriello; title: Obesity and inflammation: implications for atherosclerosis / John Alan Farmer; title: Oligomeric composition of adiponectin and obesity / T. Bobbert and Joachim Spranger; title: Insulin-stimulated reactive oxygen species and insulin signal transduction / Barry J. Goldstein, Kalyankar Mahadev, and Xiangdong Wu; title: Intracellular signaling pathways and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in vascular health in hypertension and in diabetes / Farhad Amiri, Karim Benkirane, and Ernesto L. Schiffrin; title: Role of uncoupling protein 2 in pancreatic [beta]-cell function: secretion and survival / Jingyu Diao, Catherine B. Chan, and Michael B. Wheeler; title: Nutritional modulation of inflammation in metabolic syndrome / Uma Singh, Sridevi Devaraj, and Ishwarlal Jialal; title: Dietary fatty acids and metabolic syndrome / Helen M. Roche; title: Lipid-induced death of macrophages: implication for destabilization of atherosclerotic plaques / Oren Tirosh and Anna Aronis; title: [Alpha]-lipoic acid prevents diabetes mellitis and endothelial dysfunction in diabetes-prone obese rats / Woo Je Lee, Ki-Up Lee, and Joong-Yeol Park; title: Lipoic acid blocks obesity by reduced food intake, enhanced energy expenditure, and inhibited adipocyte differentiation / Jong-Min Park and An-Sik Chung; title: Effects of conjugated linoleic acid and lipoic acid on insulin action in insulin-resistant obese Zucker rats / Erik J. Henriksen; title: Trivalent chromium supplementation inhibits oxidative stress, protein glycosylation, and vascular inflammation in high glucose-exposed human erythrocytes and monocytes / Sushil K. Jain.