Appetite and Satiety Control-Gut Mechanisms

Abstrak ini membahas mekanisme fisiologis yang sangat kompleks mengenai hubungan antara saluran pencernaan (gastrointestinal) dan kontrol nafsu makan. ;;; Prevalensi obesitas beserta komorbiditasnya—terutama diabetes tipe 2, penyakit kardiovaskular, penyakit hepatik, serta jenis kanker tertentu—terus meningkat secara global. Ironisnya, di tengah lingkungan yang semakin obesogenik, fenomena …

Apolipoproteins, Triglycerides and Cholesterol

Lipid merupakan salah satu biomolekul paling krusial dalam tubuh manusia. Mengingat korelasi eratnya dengan berbagai penyakit tidak menular (non-communicable diseases), studi mengenai lipid menjadi sangat signifikan, baik dari perspektif biokimia maupun klinis. Sejalan dengan judulnya, buku ini memberikan fokus utama pada apolipoprotein, trigliserida, dan kolesterol dengan menyajikan perspektif…

Bioinformatics Applications Based On Machine Learning

The great advances in information technology (IT) have implications for many sectors, such as bioinformatics, and has considerably increased their possibilities. This book presents a collection of 11 original research papers, all of them related to the application of IT-related techniques within the bioinformatics sector: from new applications created from the adaptation and application of exis…

Bioactive Compounds Biosynthesis and Metabolism in Fruit and Vegetables

Fruit and vegetables are considered to be among the most important sources of bioactive compounds with proven beneficial effect on human diet. Tomato has been evolved as a model crop to study both fruit ripening pattern as well as for understanding how different environmental and agricultural factors can enhance the accumulation of bioactive compounds

Advances in Lipid Metabolism

The term ‘lipids’ refers to a class of biological molecules primarily composed of hydrocarbons such as fatty acids, glycerolipids, sphingolipids and sterol lipids. Lipids take part in a variety of physiological functions and have specific roles depending on their chemical structure and localisation within or outside cells

The Heterogeneity of Cancer Metabolism

Volume akses terbuka ini akan memperkenalkan penemuan terbaru dalam metabolisme kanker sejak penerbitan edisi pertama pada tahun 2018, memberikan pemahaman terkini kepada para pembaca tentang perkembangan di bidang tersebut. Perubahan genetik pada kanker, selain menjadi pendorong utama tumorigenesis, dapat menimbulkan berbagai adaptasi metabolik yang memungkinkan sel kanker bertahan hidup dan b…

Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design

Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…

Role of Transferrin in Iron Metabolism