Metabolic basis of obesity
By: Rexford S. Ahima, editor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781441916068; 9781441916075
Subjects: Pathophysiology; Disorders; Physiopathology; Metabolic Syndrome X; Etiology; Obesity; Metabolism; Physiological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Principles of human energy metabolism / Jose Galgani and Eric Ravussin; title: Intermediary metabolism of carbohydrate, protein, and fat / Keith Tornheim and Neil B. Ruderman; title: Adipose tissue development, structure and function / Jaswinder K. Sethi and Antonio J. Vidal-Puig; title: Adipokines in health and disease / Rexford S. Ahima and Marcus D. Goncalves; title: Neural control of feeding and energy homeostasis / Emilie Caron and Rexford S. Ahima; title: Gastrointestinal hormones and obesity / Yan Wang and Efi Kokkotou; title: Genes and human obesity / R. Arlen Price; title: Classical hormones linked to obesity / Hyeong-Kyu Park and Rexford S. Ahima; title: Inflammation and adipose dysfunction / Rachana Shah and Muredach P. Reilly; title: Insulin resistance in the metabolic syndrome / Sudha B. Biddinger and Brice Emanuelli; title: Pancreatic islet [beta]-cell failure in obesity / Romoaki Morioka and Rohit N. Kulkarni; title: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the metabolic syndrome / Sonia M. Najjar; title: Sleep, circadian rhythms and metabolism / Eleonore Maury, Kathryn Moynihan Ramsey, and Joseph Bass; title: Obesity and cardiac dysfunction / Gary Sweeney, Sheldon E. Litwin, and E. Dale Abel; title: Atherogenic lipid metabolism in obesity / Sue-Anne Toh, Michael Levin, and Daniel J. Rader; title: Gut microbes, immunity, and metabolism / Evelyn Hsu and Gary Wu; title: Impact of obesity on female reproductive health / Moshood O. Olatinwo, Djana Harp, Winston Thompson, Hyeong-Kyu Park, and Roland Mathews; title: Lessons from HIV lipodystrophy and drug-induced metabolic dysfunction / Steven Grinspoon; title: Principles of obesity therapy / Rexford S. Ahima.