Obesity

Content: 
Copyright
Page iv

Former Editors
Page v

Contributors
Pages xiii-xvi

Preface
Pages xvii-xviii
Gerald Litwack

Chapter One - Hormonal Regulation of Lipogenesis
Pages 1-27
Laura L. Gathercole, Stuart A. Morgan, Jeremy W. Tomlinson

Chapter Two - Genetic Determinants of Obesity and Related Vascular Diseases
Pages 29-48
Yaroslav Winter, Roman Sankowski, Tobias Back

Chapter Three - Brd2 Gene Disruption Causes “Metabolically Healthy” Obesity: Epigenetic and Chromatin-Based Mechanisms that Uncouple Obesity from Type 2 Diabetes
Pages 49-75
Fangnian Wang, Jude T. Deeney, Gerald V. Denis

Chapter Four - The TBC1D1 Gene: Structure, Function, and Association with Obesity and Related Traits
Pages 77-95
Luca Fontanesi, Francesca Bertolini

Chapter Five - Replication Initiator 1 in Adipose Tissue Function and Human Obesity
Pages 97-105
John T. Heiker, Nora Klöting

Chapter Six - Adipokines in Childhood Obesity
Pages 107-142
Gabriel Ángel Martos-Moreno, Vicente Barrios, Julie A. Chowen, Jesús Argente

Chapter Seven - Gut Hormones and Obesity: Physiology and Therapies
Pages 143-194
Rebecca Scott, Tricia Tan, Stephen Bloom

Chapter Eight - Neuroinflammation in Overnutrition-Induced Diseases
Pages 195-218
Dongsheng Cai

Chapter Nine - p66ShcA: Linking Mammalian Longevity with Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance
Pages 219-241
Sofia Chiatamone Ranieri, Salvatore Fusco, Giovambattista Pani

Chapter Ten - The Emerging Role of Constitutive Androstane Receptor and Its Cross talk with Liver X Receptors and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor A in Lipid Metabolism
Pages 243-258
Lei Xiao, Jing Wang, Mengxi Jiang, Wen Xie, Yonggong Zhai

Chapter Eleven - Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency Protects from Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance and Obesity—Novel Insights from Mouse Models
Pages 259-270
Dominic S. Ng

Chapter Twelve - Sphingolipids in Lipid Microdomains and Obesity
Pages 271-284
Susumu Mitsutake, Yasuyuki Igarashi

Chapter Thirteen - Ghrelin At the Interface of Obesity and Reward
Pages 285-323
Harriët Schellekens, Timothy G. Dinan, John F. Cryan

Chapter Fourteen - Endocannabinoids and Obesity
Pages 325-368
Guoxun Chen, Zhen Pang

Chapter Fifteen - Lipocalin 13 Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity
Pages 369-383
Yingjiang Zhou, Liangyou Rui

Chapter Sixteen - Sirtuin 1 Deacetylase: A Key Regulator of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism
Pages 385-404
Jongsook Kim Kemper, Sung-E. Choi, Dong Hyun Kim

Chapter Seventeen - Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) and Obesity
Pages 405-424
Hyeongjin Cho

Chapter Eighteen - Nomilin as an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Hyperglycemic Agent
Pages 425-439
Ryuichiro Sato

Index
Pages 441-460