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Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging
This is the new and fully revised third edition of the well-received text that is the benchmark book in the field of nutrition and aging. The editors (specialists in geriatric nutrition, medical sociology, and clinical nutrition, respectively) and contributors (a panel of recognized academic nutritionists, geriatricians, clinicians, and other scientists) have added a number of new chapters and …
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- 978-1-4939-1928-4
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- XXVII, 442
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- 574.13 HAN
Carotenoids and Human Health
Carotenoids are a group of approximately 600 compounds synthesized by photosynthetic organisms. These pigments are abundant in fruits and vegetables, as well as in certain animal products such as eggs and salmon, being responsible for their colorful appearance. The bioactive properties of certain carotenoids in human health are clear, as some of these compounds have antioxidant properties and s…
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- 978-3-03921-833-2
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- 572 CAR
Lipids and Skin Health
Lipids and Skin Health is the first effort to summarize and review the studies, ideas, and research that link lipid metabolism to the largest organ of our body, the skin. The book covers the fundamental biology of the skin, and the major involvement of the transcriptional factors that govern lipid synthesis and the bioactive lipids in this intriguing organ. All layers of skin are presented, as…
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- 978-3-319-09943-9
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Principles of Nutrition Textbook
In the 1980s, Australian physicians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren proposed a radical hypothesis — that the cause of ulcers was bacteria that could survive in the acidic environment of the stomach and small intestine1 . They met with significant opposition to their hypothesis but they persisted with their research. Their research led to an understanding that the spiral shape of the bac…
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- 614 JEL p
An Introduction to Nutrition
Welcome to Essentials of Nutrition: A Functional Approach! This book is written for students who are not majoring in nutrition, but want to learn about the fundamental aspects of nutrition and how it applies to their own lives. We have written this book with the assumption that you have little or no prior knowledge of college level chemistry, biology, or physiology. But that does not mean it’…
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Glutamine in Clinical Nutrition
Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid and is a major contributor to whole body nitrogen metabolism and is considered to be “conditionally essential.” Glutamine in Health and Disease presents the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians and incorporates emerging fields of science and important discoveries. Section 1 covers glutamine structure and function…
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- 978-1-4939-1931-4
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- XXXIV, 551
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- 574.13 GLU
Early Nutrition and Lifestyle Factors
This book highlights the impact of nutrients on early placentation processes and their relevance for fetal growth and pregnancy outcome. The role of maternal nutrition on fetal growth and development has been evidenced in many epidemiological studies that included infamous Dutch famine, Helsinki Birth cohort and others. Fetal programming hypothesis states that the nutritional and other envir…
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- 978-3-319-38802-1
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- X, 159
Morbid Obesity in Adolescents
As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regarding the post-operative regimen and long-term management of adolescent patients have been establish…
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- 978-3-7091-0967-0
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- Springer-Verlag Wien
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Molybdenum Cofactors and Their role in the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways
In this brief, the authors explore and review the current knowledge regarding the role of molybdenum in the evolution of biological systems and their interaction with biogeochemical cycles. Special emphasis is placed on biological nitrogen fixation and the nitrogen element cycle. The origin and evolution of molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic pathways as well as the evolutionary significance of…
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- 978-94-017-9971-3
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- VI, 75
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Natural Compounds as Therapeutic Agents for Amyloidogenic Diseases
This edited volume concerns a group of devastating neurological disorders that share a common pathological mechanism, namely the aggregation and deposition of insoluble, proteinaceous lesions, termed ‘amyloid’. Examples of cerebral amyloid disorders include common neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia and Parkinson’s disease, as well as other less prevalen…
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- 978-3-319-18364-0
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- VII, 163
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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