Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sociology --- Overweight --- Overnutrition --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Age Groups --- Body Weight --- Nutrition Disorders --- Social Sciences --- Persons --- Population Characteristics --- Body Size --- Signs and Symptoms --- Named Groups --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Diseases --- Body Weights and Measures --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Body Constitution --- Physiological Phenomena --- Physical Examination --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Obesity --- Adolescent --- Child --- Social Conditions

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased in western and westernized societies, making the disease the second leading cause of unnecessary deaths in the US. Obesity results from imbalanced metabolic regulation leading to excessive lipid storage. As important novel entities in metabolic regulation, taste receptors and their cells are critical elements that adapt the gustatory system to metabolic signals and vice versa. The role of taste receptor genes in gastrointestinal tissues, as well as their dynamic regulation in gustatory and non-gustatory tissues in response to metabolic cues, has become the focus of an entirely new and rapidly developing research field with impacts on fuel sensing, metabolic control, and ingestive behavior. This book reflects the recent scientific progress in the field of fuel sensing in the mouth, GI tract, and brain and examines the olfactory bulb as a potential metabolic sensor and the brain-gut endocrine axis. It also touches on relevant novel molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating lipid storage and metabolism and covers the identification and functional characterization of obesity genes. Lastly, it illustrates the use of insect models to study relevant problems of energy homeostasis.

Bioenergetics. --- Chemoreceptors. --- Energy metabolism -- Regulation. --- Lipids -- Metabolism. --- Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Animal models. --- Obesity -- Animal models. --- Metabolism --- Chemoreceptors --- Bioenergetics --- Lipids --- Obesity --- Non-insulin-dependent diabetes --- Metabolic Phenomena --- Neurons, Afferent --- Peripheral Nervous System --- Overweight --- Overnutrition --- Nutrition Disorders --- Neurons --- Phenomena and Processes --- Body Weight --- Nervous System --- Energy Metabolism --- Sensory Receptor Cells --- Cells --- Body Size --- Signs and Symptoms --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Anatomy --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Diseases --- Body Weights and Measures --- Body Constitution --- Physiological Phenomena --- Physical Examination --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Cytology --- Physiology --- Regulation --- Animal models --- Obesity. --- Research. --- Disorders. --- Adiposity --- Corpulence --- Fatness --- Disorders of metabolism --- Metabolic diseases --- Metabolic disorders --- Metabolism, Disorders of --- Anabolism --- Catabolism --- Metabolism, Primary --- Primary metabolism --- Life sciences. --- Cell biology. --- Life Sciences. --- Cell Biology. --- Body weight --- Nutrition disorders --- Biochemistry --- Disorders --- Cytology. --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Cytologists

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Obesity is considered as top at risk condition in the world and it is mandatory to identify the physiopathological causes involved in adipose tissue enlargement and related metabolic and cardiovascular health disorders. Environmental, behavioural, genetic, epigenetic and multiple biological factors interact to cause obesity. In this context adipose tissue depots have been under focus in the last decades and pivotal concepts have emerged from the studies of their complex biology. While the white adipose tissue (WAT) is the main energy repository in the body (mobilizing fatty acids according to body needs) thanks to white adipocyte properties, WAT is also a multicellular organ communicating with other body organs (brain, muscles, liver, pancreas, heart, vessels, etc…) via complex networks of endocrine signals. The discovery of leptin in 1994 led to recognize WAT as a master organ at the crossroad of a myriad of physiological interactions to control food intake, energy balance, glucose and lipid metabolism, immunity and reproduction. The phenotype, amount and biology of each WAT component are profoundly altered in human obesity. Adipose plasticity also accounts for the extraordinary capacity of adipose precursors to differentiate into functional cardiomyocytes, osteoblasts, haematopoietic and neural cells, a convenient property for regenerative medicine. Finally, while initially thought to exert a negligible role in humans, the discovery of brown adipose tissue in adults stimulates a novel interest for this tissue with high capacity to oxidize fatty acids.

Adipose tissues. --- Adipose tissues --- Connective Tissue --- Overweight --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Overnutrition --- Body Weight --- Tissues --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Nutrition Disorders --- Obesity --- Physiology --- Adipose Tissue --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Body Size --- Signs and Symptoms --- Anatomy --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Body Weights and Measures --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Diseases --- Body Constitution --- Physical Examination --- Physiological Phenomena --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Connective tissues --- Areolar tissue --- Adipose tissue --- Body fat tissues --- Fat tissue --- Fatty tissue --- Medicine. --- Biomedicine. --- Biomedicine general. --- Collagen --- Elastic tissue --- Musculoskeletal system --- Fat --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- Biomedicine, general. --- Paris <2009>

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Before 1980, rates were generally well below 10%. They have since doubled or tripled in many countries, and in almost half of the OECD, 50% or more of the population is overweight.  A key risk factor for numerous chronic diseases, obesity is a major public health concern.    This book contributes to evidence-based policy making by exploring multiple dimensions of the obesity problem. It examines the scale and characteristics of the epidemic, the respective roles and influence of market forces and governments, and the impact of interventions. It outlines an economic approach to the prevention of chronic diseases that provides novel insights relative to a more traditional public health approach.  The analysis was undertaken by the OECD, partly in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The main chapters are complemented by special contributions from health and obesity experts, including Marc Suhrcke, Tim Lobstein, Donald Kenkel and Francesco Branca.  “a valuable set of results and suggestions about the best preventive interventions to reduce the burden of obesity.”   – Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health   “The positive message of this book is that the obesity epidemic can be successfully addressed.”   – Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization   “innovative and well-researched”  – Martin McKee, Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine "A timely, valuable volume on a critical issue.  Highly recommended."-Choice, July 2011        

Obesity -- Economic aspects. --- Obesity -- Prevention. --- Obesity --- Overnutrition --- Overweight --- Body Weight --- Nutrition Disorders --- Body Size --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Body Weights and Measures --- Diseases --- Body Constitution --- Physical Examination --- Physiological Phenomena --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Diagnostic Technics and Procedures --- Technics and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Techniques and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Physiological Concepts --- Physiological Phenomenon --- Physiological Process --- Physiological Processes --- Concept, Physiological --- Concepts, Physiological --- Phenomena, Physiological --- Phenomenas, Physiological --- Phenomenon, Physiological --- Physiological Concept --- Process, Physiological --- Processes, Physiological --- Antemortem Diagnosis --- Diagnoses and Examinations --- Examinations and Diagnoses --- Postmortem Diagnosis --- Antemortem Diagnoses --- Diagnoses --- Diagnoses, Antemortem --- Diagnoses, Postmortem --- Diagnosis, Antemortem --- Diagnosis, Postmortem --- Postmortem Diagnoses --- Disease --- Examination, Physical --- Physical Examinations and Diagnoses --- Examinations, Physical --- Physical Examinations --- Body Constitutions --- Constitution, Body --- Constitutions, Body --- Body Measures --- Body Measure --- Measure, Body --- Measures, Body --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- Symptoms and Signs --- Body Sizes --- Size, Body --- Sizes, Body --- Nutritional Disorders --- Nutrition Disorder --- Nutritional Disorder --- Body Weights --- Weight, Body --- Weights, Body --- Hypernutrition --- methods --- diagnosis --- Sensitivity and Specificity --- Surgical Clearance --- Independent Medical Evaluation --- Anthropometry --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Hyperphagia --- Obesity Management --- Weight Gain --- Bariatrics --- Physical Exam --- Exam, Physical --- Exams, Physical --- Physical Exams --- Diagnostic Testing --- Testing, Diagnostic --- Diagnose