Molecular and Cellular Effects of Nutrition on Disease Processes

Front Matter....Pages i-1
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Timing of dietary fat exposure and mammary tumorigenesis: Role of estrogen receptor and protein kinase C activity....Pages 5-12
Dissociation of vitamin D 3 and anti-estrogen mediated growth regulation in MCF-7 breast cancer cells....Pages 13-20
Sodium butyrate induces retinoblastoma protein dephosphorylation, p16 expression and growth arrest of colon cancer cells....Pages 21-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Regulation of adipocyte gene expression by polyunsaturated fatty acids....Pages 33-39
The molecular basis for the role of zinc in developmental biology....Pages 41-48
Maturation of fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolism in the newborn heart....Pages 49-56
Genes regulating copper metabolism....Pages 57-62
Zinc and immunity....Pages 63-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Vanadium and diabetes....Pages 73-80
Effect of enteral nutritional products differing in carbohydrate and fat on indices of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in patients with NIDDM....Pages 81-89
Cardiac sarcolemmal Na + -Ca 2+ exchange and Na + -K + ATPase activities and gene expression in alloxan-induced diabetes in rats....Pages 91-101
Role of oxygen derived radicals for vascular dysfunction in the diabetic heart: Prevention by α-tocopherol?....Pages 103-111
Cardiovascular disease in the JCR:LA-cp rat....Pages 113-126
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Nutritional and endocrine modulation of intracellular calcium: Implications in obesity, insulin resistance and hypertension....Pages 129-136
Hypertension, calcium channel and pyridoxine (vitamin B 6 )....Pages 137-148
LDL oxidation by arterial wall macrophages depends on the oxidative status in the lipoprotein and in the cells: Role of prooxidants vs. antioxidants....Pages 149-159
Modulation of adriamycin-induced changes in serum free fatty acids, albumin and cardiac oxidative stress....Pages 161-166
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An A/G-rich motif in the rat fibroblast growth factor-2 gene confers enhancer activity on a heterologous promoter in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes....Pages 169-176
Influence of different culture conditions on sarcoplasmic reticular calcium transport in isolated neonatal rat cardiomyocytes....Pages 177-185
Taurine indirectly increases [Ca] i by inducing Ca 2+ influx through the Na + -Ca 2+ exchanger....Pages 187-197
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Effects of long-term treatment with eicosapentaenoic acid on the heart subjected to ischemia/reperfusion and hypoxia/reoxygenation in rats....Pages 199-208
Differential influence of fasting and BM13.907 treatment on growth and phenotype of pressure overloaded rat heart....Pages 209-215
On the mechanism of the phospholipase C-mediated attenuation of cardiolipin biosynthesis in H9c2 cardiac myoblast cells....Pages 217-223
Development of pressure overload induced cardiac hypertrophy is unaffected by long-term treatment with losartan....Pages 225-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-240