Lipid Metabolism

✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Valenzuela Baez

• Publisher: InTech
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 470
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lipids (fats and oils) are a wide range of organic molecules that serve several functions in organisms. Lipids are essential components of our diet, highlighting their important contribution in energy, representing 9 kcal/g (or 37.7 kJ/g), and by some components relevant to the metabolism, such as essential fatty acids, fat soluble vitamins and sterols (cholesterol and phytosterols). Besides this, lipids have key roles in human growth and development, along with promoting, preventing and/or participating in the origin or eventually in the treatment of various diseases. This book presents a systematic and comprehensive review about the structure and metabolism of lipids, particularly highlighting the importance of these molecules in the body and considering the interest of some lipids in health and disease.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Overview About Lipid Structure by Rodrigo Valenzuela B. and Alfonso Valenzuela B.
Chapter 2   Oxidative Stress and Lipid Peroxidation – A Lipid Metabolism Dysfunction by Claudia Borza, Danina Muntean, Cristina Dehelean, Germaine Săvoiu, Corina Şerban, Georgeta Simu, Mihaiela Andoni, Marius Butur and Simona Drăgan
Chapter 3   The Role of Copper as a Modifier of Lipid Metabolism by Jason L. Burkhead and Svetlana Lutsenko
Chapter 4   The Role of Liver X Receptor in Hepatic de novo Lipogenesis and Cross-Talk with Insulin and Glucose Signaling by Line M. Grønning-Wang, Christian Bindesbøll and Hilde I. Nebb
Chapter 5   The 18 kDa Translocator Protein and Atherosclerosis in Mice Lacking Apolipoprotein E by Jasmina Dimitrova-Shumkovska, Leo Veenman, Inbar Roim and Moshe Gavish
Chapter 6   Metabolism of Plasma Membrane Lipids in Mycobacteria and Corynebacteria by Paul K. Crellin, Chu-Yuan Luo and Yasu S. Morita
Chapter 7   Autophagy Regulates Lipid Droplet Formation and Adipogenesis by Yasuo Uchiyama and Eiki Kominami
Chapter 8   Metabolism of Short Chain Fatty Acids in the Colon and Faeces of Mice After a Supplementation of Diets with Agave Fructans by Alicia Huazano-García and Mercedes G. López
Chapter 9   Lipid Metabolism, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cancer by Fang Hu, Yingtong Zhang and Yuanda Song
Chapter 10   Impacts of Nutrition and Environmental Stressors on Lipid Metabolism by Heather M. White, Brian T. Richert and Mickey A. Latour
Chapter 11   Polydextrose in Lipid Metabolism by Heli Putaala
Chapter 12   Spent Brewer’s Yeast and Beta-Glucans Isolated from Them as Diet Components Modifying Blood Lipid Metabolism Disturbed by an Atherogenic Diet by Bozena Waszkiewicz-Robak
Chapter 13   Lipid Involvement in Viral Infections: Present and Future Perspectives for the Design of Antiviral Strategies by Miguel A. Martín-Acebes, Ángela Vázquez-Calvo, Flavia Caridi, Juan-Carlos Saiz and Francisco Sobrino
Chapter 14   The Role of Altered Lipid Metabolism in Septic Myocardial Dysfunction by Luca Siracusano and Viviana Girasole
Chapter 15   Lipids as Markers of Induced Resistance in Wheat: A Biochemical and Molecular Approach by Christine Tayeh, Béatrice Randoux, Frédéric Laruelle, Natacha Bourdon, Delphine Renard-Merlier and Philippe Reignault
Chapter 16   Jasmonate Biosynthesis, Perception and Function in Plant Development and Stress Responses by Yuanxin Yan, Eli Borrego and Michael V. Kolomiets
Chapter 17   The Effect of Probiotics on Lipid Metabolism by Yong Zhang and Heping Zhang