Obesity

Cutting-edge review concerning the molecular and cellular biology of vitamins and hormones

Gerald Litwack (Series edited by)

9780124077669

Hardback, published 25 March 2013

512 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 3 cm, 0.72 kg

Approx.490 pages

1. Hormonal Regulation of Lipogenesis

Laura L. Gathercole, Stuart A. Morgan and Jeremy W. Tomlinson

2. Genetic Determinants of Obesity and Related Vascular Diseases

Yaroslav Winter, Roman Sankowski and Tobias Back

3. Brd2 Gene Disruption Causes ‘Metabolically Healthy’ Obesity: Epigenetic and Chromatin-Based Mechanisms that Uncouple Obesity from Type 2 Diabetes

Fangnian Wang, Jude T. Deeney and Gerald V. Denis

4. The TBC1D1 Gene: Structure, Function and Association with Obesity and Related Traits

Luca Fontanesi and Francesca Bertolini

5. Replication Initiator 1 (Repin1) In Adipose Tissue Function and Human Obesity

John T. Heiker and Nora Klöting

6. Adipokines in Childhood Obesity

Gabriel Ángel Martos-Moreno, Vicente Barrios, Julie A. Chowen and Jesús Argente

7. Gut Hormones and Obesity: Physiology and Therapies

Rebecca Scott, Tricia Tan and Stephen Bloom

8. Neuroinflammation in Overnutrition-Induced Diseases

Dongsheng Cai

9. P66^shcA : Linking Mammalian Longevity with Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance

Sofia Chiatamone Ranieri, Salvatore Fusco and Giovambattista Pani

10. The Emerging Role of Constitutive Androstane Receptor (CAR) and its Crosstalk with Liver X Receptors (LXRs) and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor a (PPARa) in Lipid Metabolism

Lei Xiao, Jing Wang, Mengxi Jiang, Wen Xie and Yonggong Zhai

11. Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency Protects from Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance and Obesity – Novel Insights from Mouse Models

Dominic S. Ng

12. Sphingolipids in Lipid Microdomains and Obesity

Susumu Mitsutake and Yasuyuki Igarashi

13. Ghrelin: At the Interface of Obesity and Reward

Harriët Schellekens, Timothy G. Dinan, and John F. Cryan

14. Endocannabinoids and Obesity

Guoxun Chen and Zhen Pang

15. Lipocalin 13 Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity

Yingjiang Zhou and Liangyou Rui

16. Sirtuin 1 Deacetylase: A Key Regulator of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism

Jongsook Kim Kemper, Sung-E Choi and Dong Hyun Kim

17. Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) and Obesity

Hyeongjin Cho

18. Nomilin as an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Hyperglycemic AgentRyuichiro Sato

Subject Areas: Endocrinology [MJG]