Metabolic syndrome pathophysiology
Subtitle: the role of essential fatty acids
By: Undurti N. Das.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813815534
Subjects: Metabolic syndrome -- Pathophysiology; Essential fatty acids -- Pathophysiology; Unsaturated fatty acids -- Pathophysiology; Insulin resistance -- Pathophysiology; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Pathophysiology; Brain -- Metabolism; Metabolic Syndrome X -- physiopathology; Brain -- physiopathology; Fatty Acids, Essential -- pharmacology; Fatty Acids, Essential -- physiology; Fatty Acids, Unsaturated -- pharmacology; Fatty Acids, Unsaturated -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History, definition and diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome; title: Insulin resistance in the metabolic syndrome; title: Is it necessary to redefine the metabolic syndrome?; title: Is insulin resistance a disorder of the brain?; title: Obesity; title: Perinatal nutrition and obesity; title: Essential hypertension; title: Dietary factors and hypertension; title: Is hypertension a disorder of the brain?; title: Type 2 diabetes mellitus; title: Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus with particular reference to hypothalamus; title: Insulin and insulin receptors in the brain and their role in the pathogenesis of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus; title: Insulin, endothelial nitric oxide and the metabolic syndrome; title: Obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and the metabolic syndrome and the gut microbiota; title: Is it possible that the metabolic syndrome originates in the perinatal period?; title: Essential fatty acids : biochemistry and physiology; title: Role of EFAs/PUFAs in brain growth and development and pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome; title: EFAs/PUFAs and their metabolites in insulin resistance; title: EFAs/PUFAs and atherosclerosis.