Nutrient-Gene Interactions
edited by Mark S. Meskin
Phytochemicals: Nutrient-Gene Interactions examines the interactions between phytochemicals and the human genome and discusses the impact these interactions have on health, aging, and chronic conditions such as inflammation, heart disease, obesity, type II diabetes mellitus, and cancer.
Features:
- Introduces methodologies for identifying genes regulated by diet, genotype, and genotype-diet interactions
- Highlights the benefits of controlled clinical trials in dietary supplement development, suggesting both in vivo to ex vivo testing
- Details adipose tissue gene expression in the context of inflammation and the pathogenesis of obesity
- Explores the molecular mechanisms that underlie resveratrol activity and its role in cardiovascular health
- Explains the mechanisms of protective action for components of whole grains
- Dedicates the final chapter to the non-antioxidant cellular properties of vitamin E
Phytochemicals: Nutrient-Gene Interactions illustrates the growing role of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics in disease prevention and in the responsible development of safe and effective phytochemical products within the food, pharmaceutical, and supplement industries.
Contents
- Nutrigenomics: Opportunities and Challenges
- Gene-Diet Interactions, Blood Lipids, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Rise of Nutrigenetics
- Diet-Disease Interactions at the Molecular Level: An Experimental Paradigm
- Anti-Inflammatory Phytochemicals: In Vitro and Ex Vivo Evaluation
- Lipid Peroxidation, Gene Expression, and Resveratrol: Implications in Atherosclerosis
- Adipose Tissue Gene Expression in the Context of Inflammation and Obesity
- Gene-Environment Interactions in Obesity: Implications for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity
- Saturated Fat Consumption in Ancestral Human Diets: Implications for Contemporary Intakes
- Plant-Based Diets and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiologic Evidence
- Evolutionary Aspects of Diet, the Omega-6/Omega-3 Ratio, and Gene Expression;
- Beyond Fiber: Whole Grains and Health
- Molecular Activities of Vitamin E
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