Table of Contents

Section 1: General and Introductory Aspects
1. Intestinal health and bioactive lipids
2. C-reactive protein and plasma fatty acids: public health concerns and implications
3. The role of a fatty acid chain elongase, Elovl,1 in zebrafish and implications fcor human kidney
4. Dietary lipids and lipid metabolism: An overview
5. Fatty acids use in neurological disease
6. The Neurocan-cartilage intermediate layer protein NCAN-CILP2 region and plasma lipid levels
7. Role of cholesterol on controlling membrane phospholipid asymmetry
8. Adipose tissue and peritoneal dialysis
9. Lipid biomarkers and cancer
10. Absorption of dietary fat and their metabolism in enterocytes
11. The lipid-lowering action of iodothyronines
12. Dietary Omega-3s and Muscle Composition in adults
13. An overview of cholesterol absorption
14. Triacylglycerols and use of docosahexaenoic acid at the sn-2 position
15. Safety of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) ethyl ester and implications for human studies
16. Fish oil supplementation and depression
17. Drugs to counter SFA-mediated lipointoxication
18. Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)]
19. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and white adipose tissue lipolysis
20. Trans-fat intake and behaviour
21. Glycemic index meal feeding and lipid profiling
22. Beef Fat
23. Lipid pathway in liver cells and its modulation by dietary extracts

Section 2: Molecular Biology of the Cell
24. Subcellular organelles: lipid droplets
25. Optimized omega-3 EPA:DHA 6:1 and pulmonary arterial hypertension
26. Omega-3 fatty acids and epilepsy
27. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA): A dietary supplement with promising anticancer potential
28. Periaortic adipose tissue in obesogenic diets
29. Genomics, statins and lipid metabolism
30. Cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis development
31. Lipid metabolism in dyslipidemia and familial hypercholesterolemia
32. Lipid Profile of Progenitor Cells
33. Trans-fatty acids and mortality
34. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids associate with development and prematurity
35. Hedgehog signaling and liver lipid metabolism
36. Cyclosporin A-Induced Dyslipidemia and LDL Receptors
37. Hypoxia and adipose tissue lipid breakdown
38. Intramyocellular fat storage

Section 3: Genetic Machinery and Its Function
39. Fatty acid binding protein 2 genes and public health implications for diabetes
40. Transcriptional factor modulation by lipid peroxidation-derived aldehydes
41. Heterogeneity of white adipose tissue
42. Nomenclature, classes and functions of lipids and lipid-related molecules, Dietary lipids
43. Lipid metabolism: an overview - The mitochondria as a site of fatty acid beta-oxidation
44. Fatty acids, gut bacteria and immune cell function

About the Author

Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is currently Professor in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of liver disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress in neurological disorders and iron dysregulation in diabetes. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to the use or investigation of active agents or components. These books include The Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and Epigenetics, Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition, Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Toxicology: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Molecular Nutrition: Vitamins, The Neuroscience of Pain, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He is Editor of the ten-volume series Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications.