Main description:

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms.

Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and molecular biologists. Others interested in the structure and function of biologically active molecules like hormones and vitamins will, as always, turn to this series for comprehensive reviews by leading contributors to this and related disciplines.

This volume focuses on obesity.

Contents:

Hormonal Regulation of Lipogenesis
Laura L. Gathercole, Stuart A. Morgan and Jeremy W. Tomlinson

Genetic Determinants of Obesity and Related Vascular Diseases
Yaroslav Winter, Roman Sankowski and Tobias Back

Brd2 Gene Disruption Causes 'Metabolically Healthy' Obesity: Epigenetic and Chromatin-Based Mechanisms that Uncouple Obesity from Type 2 Diabetes
Fangnian Wang, Jude T. Deeney and Gerald V. Denis

The TBC1D1 Gene: Structure, Function and Association with Obesity and Related Traits
Luca Fontanesi and Francesca Bertolini

Replication Initiator 1 (Repin1) In Adipose Tissue Function and Human Obesity
John T. Heiker and Nora Kloeting

Adipokines in Childhood Obesity
Gabriel Angel Martos-Moreno, Vicente Barrios, Julie A. Chowen and Jesus Argente

Gut Hormones and Obesity: Physiology and Therapies
Rebecca Scott, Tricia Tan and Stephen Bloom

Neuroinflammation in Overnutrition-Induced Diseases
Dongsheng Cai

P66shcA : Linking Mammalian Longevity with Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance
Sofia Chiatamone Ranieri, Salvatore Fusco and Giovambattista Pani

The Emerging Role of Constitutive Androstane Receptor (CAR) and its Crosstalk with Liver X Receptors (LXRs) and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor a (PPARa) in Lipid Metabolism
Lei Xiao, Jing Wang, Mengxi Jiang, Wen Xie and Yonggong Zhai

Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency Protects from Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance and Obesity - Novel Insights from Mouse Models
Dominic S. Ng

Sphingolipids in Lipid Microdomains and Obesity
Susumu Mitsutake and Yasuyuki Igarashi

Ghrelin: At the Interface of Obesity and Reward
Harriet Schellekens, Timothy G. Dinan, and John F. Cryan

Endocannabinoids and Obesity
Guoxun Chen and Zhen Pang

Lipocalin 13 Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity
Yingjiang Zhou and Liangyou Rui

Sirtuin 1 Deacetylase: A Key Regulator of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism
Jongsook Kim Kemper, Sung-E Choi and Dong Hyun Kim

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) and Obesity
Hyeongjin Cho

Nomilin as an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Hyperglycemic Agent Ryuichiro Sato