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Title Diet, inflammation, and health edited by James R. Hébert, Lorne J. Hofseth
Published London : Academic Press, 2022

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Contents Front Cover -- DIET, INFLAMMATION, AND HEALTH -- DIET, INFLAMMATION, AND HEALTH -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- References -- 1 -- Inflammation in the long arc of history -- 1. Introduction: inflammatory responses are universal -- 1.1 Plant immune response -- 1.2 Single-cell organism immune response -- 2. Our evolving understanding of immune and inflammatory responses -- 3. Looking way back in time to understand why inflammation is a universal property of living systems -- 4. What is the relationship between inflammation and immune response?
5. How we have coopted inflammatory and immune responses from other organisms over our evolutionary history -- 5.1 Inflammatory mechanisms and players in inflammation -- 5.1.1 Nitric oxide (NO), cyclooxygenases (COX), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) -- 5.1.2 Cytokines and chemokines -- 5.1.3 Nuclear factor Kappa-B (NF-kB) -- 5.1.4 The inflammasome -- 5.2 Targets of inflammatory players and the pathogenesis of disease -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 2 -- History of nutrition and inflammation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Natural history of nutrition and inflammation
3. Human history of nutrition and inflammation -- 3.1 Presaging the golden age of vitamin research -- Scurvy and Vitamin C -- Pellagra and Niacin/Tryptophan -- Beriberi and thiamin -- Rickets and vitamin D -- 3.1.1 The age of vitamin research -- 4. Other nutrients -- 4.1 Metals -- 4.2 Other micronutrients -- 4.3 Considering simultaneous deficiencies of several nutrients -- 4.4 The macronutrients and total energy intake -- 5. This emergence of chemoprevention in the last decades of the 20th century -- 6. Special/vulnerable populations
7. The demographic, epidemiologic, and nutrition transitions and the age of excess -- References -- 3 -- Diet and acute and chronic, systemic, low-grade inflammation -- 1. Acute versus chronic inflammation -- 1.1 Acute inflammation -- 1.2 Chronic inflammation -- 2. The nutrition connections -- 3. Evidence that chronic inflammation drives disease -- 3.1 Inflammation and oxidation are strongly correlated -- 4. Covert systemic inflammatory load and tissue-specific simmering inflammation -- 5. Obesity is associated with a high inflammatory load -- 6. Conclusion -- References
4 -- Resolving acute inflammation -- what happens when inflammation goes haywire? How can it get back in line? -- 1. Acute inflammation -- 2. How can inflammation get back in line? -- 3. Resolution of inflammation -- 4. Resolution pharmacology: proresolving lipid mediators -- 5. Dietary intervention with omega-3 PUFA -- 6. Lipoxins -- 7. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) -- 8. Maresins -- 9. Resolvins -- 9.1 E-series resolvins -- 10. SPM pharmacology-resolution indices -- 10.1 SPM pharmacology-receptor-mediated bioactions -- 11. SPM are protective in preclinical studies -- 11.1 Arthritis
Notes Includes index
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Subject Inflammation -- Nutritional aspects
Inflammation -- Pathophysiology
Inflammation -- Pathophysiology
Form Electronic book
Author Hebert, James R., editor.
Hofseth, Lorne J., editor
ISBN 9780128221655
0128221658