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1 online resource (728 pages) |
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Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
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Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
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""Emerging Technologies for Nutrition Research""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE""; ""FOCUS OF THE REPORT""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Contents""; ""Emerging Technologies for Nutrition Research""; ""I COMMITTEE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ""; ""1 Project Overview and Committee Summary ""; ""PROJECT OVERVIEW""; ""The Committee's Task""; ""The Current Army Program and Its Future Needs""; ""COMMITTEE SUMMARY""; ""Techniques of Body Composition Assessment""; ""Body Composition Standards in the Military"" |
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""Body Composition Assessment Techniques Proposed to Replace Hydrodensitometry as the Criterion Method""""Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry""; ""Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Other Techniques""; ""Computerized Axial Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging""; ""Correlation between Body Composition, Health Status, and Physical Performance""; ""Summary""; ""Tracer Techniques for the Study of Metabolism""; ""Use of Isotopic Tracers to Study Metabolism""; ""Future Directions""; ""Use of Positron Emission Tomography to Study Protein Metabolism"" |
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""Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Tool to Study Metabolism""""Summary""; ""Ambulatory Techniques for Measurement of Energy Expenditure""; ""Doubly Labeled Water for Energy Expenditure""; ""Using Foot Contact Time to Estimate the Metabolic Cost of Locomotion""; ""Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Measuring Plasma Metabolites""; ""Summary""; ""Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Nutrition""; ""Regulation of Gene Expression by Nutrients and Metabolites""; ""Applications for Techniques Used to Study Gene Expression""; ""Isolated Cell Approaches""; ""Summary""; ""Assessment of Immune Function"" |
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""New Approaches to the Study of Abnormal Immune Function""""Evaluation of Humoral Immunity (Production of Antibodies)""; ""Evaluation of Cell-Mediated Immune Functions""; ""In Vitro Assays of Lymphocyte Function""; ""Phagocytic Cell Assays""; ""New Techniques for Producing Immunity via Oral Immunization""; ""Production of Recombinant Bacterial Antigen for Oral Immunization""; ""Use of Enterotoxins as Vaccine Carriers and Adjuvants""; ""Use of Transgenic Plants to Generate Antibodies for Passive Immunotherapy""; ""Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction for Identification and Cloning of Antibodies"" |
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""Microencapsulation of Antigens and Antibodies""""Summary""; ""Assessment of Immune Function""; ""Techniques for Oral Vaccine Production""; ""Functional and Behavioral Measures of Nutritional Status""; ""Involuntary Muscle Contraction to Assess Nutritional Status""; ""Application of Cognitive Performance Assessment Technology to Military Nutrition Research""; ""Technical Advances in Cognitive Performance Assessment""; ""Computers and Miniaturization""; ""Improvement in Interface Technology""; ""Summary""; ""2 Committee Responses to Questions, Conclusions, and Recommendations "" |
| Summary |
The latest of a series of publications based on workshops sponsored by the Committee on Military Nutrition Research, this book's focus on emerging technologies for nutrition research arose from a concern among scientists at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine that traditional nutrition research, using standard techniques, centered more on complex issues of the maintenance or enhancement of performance, and might not be sufficiently substantive either to measure changes in performance or to predict the effects on performance of stresses soldiers commonly experience in operational environments. The committee's task was to identify and evaluate new technologies to determine whether they could help resolve important issues in military nutrition research. The book contains the committee's summary and recommendations as well as individually authored chapters based on presentations at a 1995 workshop. Other chapters cover techniques of body composition assessment, tracer techniques for the study of metabolism, ambulatory techniques for the determination of energy expenditure, molecular and cellular approaches to nutrition, the assessment of immune function, and functional and behavioral measures of nutritional status |
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""Responses to questions posed by the army"" |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Nutrition -- Research.
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Soldiers -- Nutrition -- United States
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Nutrition -- Research
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Soldiers -- Nutrition
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309553384 |
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0309553385 |
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0309057973 |
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9780309057974 |
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1280191597 |
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9781280191596 |
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9780309174534 |
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0309174538 |
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