Junji Terao
Junji Terao
Flavonoids are ubiquitously present in fruits and vegetables. They have attracted much attention in relation to prevention of degenerative diseases such as atherosclerosis. Their antioxidant activity should be at least partly responsible fo...
Beta-carotene degradation products - formation, toxicity and prevention of toxicity [0.03%]
β-胡萝卜素降解产物-形成、毒性及预防措施
Werner Siems,Costantino Salerno,Carlo Crifò et al.
Werner Siems et al.
Carotenoids are widely used as important micronutrients in food. Furthermore, carotenoid supplementation has been used in the treatment of diseases associated with oxidative stress such as various types of cancer, inflammatory diseases or c...
Metabolism of flavonoids [0.03%]
黄酮类化合物的代谢
Yu Wang,Chi-Tang Ho
Yu Wang
Flavonoids, the most abundant polyphenolic compounds in foods, can be classified into flavanols, flavones, flavonols, flavanones, isoflavones and anthocyanidins. They have been demonstrated to possess strong antioxidant and disease-preventi...
Akihiko Nagao
Akihiko Nagao
Carotenoids are highly hydrophobic pigments with yellow to red color and their major dietary sources are fruits and vegetables. They have an essential physiological function as a vitamin A precursor and also have antioxidant, anticancer, im...
Oxidative stress-induced posttranslational modification of proteins as a target of functional food [0.03%]
功能食品作用的氧化应激诱导的蛋白质翻译后修饰目标化研究进展
Yuji Naito,Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Yuji Naito
In lifestyle-related diseases including metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, and cancer, oxidative stress is indicated by several markers, among which are lipid peroxides, aldehydes, and nitrotyrosine. We hypothesized that identification of...
Nobuyuki Takahashi,Tsuyoshi Goto,Shizuka Hirai et al.
Nobuyuki Takahashi et al.
Abnormalities in lipid metabolism cause obesity leading to metabolic syndrome. Thus, improvement of the abnormalities is significant for the treatment of metabolic syndrome. Nuclear receptors activated by specific ligands regulate lipid met...
Lipid metabolism and nutrigenomics - impact of sesame lignans on gene expression profiles and fatty acid oxidation in rat liver [0.03%]
脂代谢与营养基因组学-芝麻木脂素对大鼠肝基因表达谱及脂肪酸氧化的影响
Takashi Ide,Yasutaka Nakashima,Hiroshi Iida et al.
Takashi Ide et al.
The impact of sesamin, episesamin and sesamolin (sesame lignans) on hepatic gene expression profiles was compared with a DNA microarray. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed experimental diets containing 0.2% sesamin, episesamin or sesamolin, ...
Keiko Abe
Keiko Abe
In the 1980s, Japan proposed the terminology of 'functional food' and its concept [1], and since then the importance of conducting basic and applied studies on food functionality has been emphasized globally. Functional foods in particular ...
ILSI's first international conference on nutrigenomics: opportunities in Asia [0.03%]
国际生命科学研究所首次举办国际营养基因组学大会：亚洲地区的机遇
Rodolfo F Florentino
Rodolfo F Florentino
ILSI's first international conference on nutrigenomics that was held in Singapore in December 2005 highlighted the tremendous opportunities of nutrigenomics and the fast growing 'omics' sciences in improving human health. A wide array of to...
Developing the promise of nutrigenomics through complete science and international collaborations [0.03%]
通过完整科学和国际协作实现营养基因组学的前景
Jim Kaput
Jim Kaput
Food is economically available to 4 billion of the world's 6 billion people, a situation that resulted from dramatically improved methods for producing, storing, and distributing food on a mass scale during the last 100 years. Nevertheless,...