Advances in Food and Nutrition Research (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Advances In Food and Nutrition Research, Volume 37 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Contributors to Volume 37 12
Preface 14
Chapter 1. Food, Diet, and Gastrointestinal Immune Function 18
I. Introduction 18
II. Overview of the Gastrointestinal Immune System 19
III. Diseases Involving the Gastrointestinal Immune System 39
IV. Impact of Food Constituents and Contaminants on Gastrointestinal Immunity 52
V. Modification of Gastrointestinal Immunity through Food and Diet 62
VI. Research Needs 70
References 73
Chapter 2. Effect of Consumption of Lactic Cultures on Human Health 84
I. Introduction 84
II. General Physiology 88
III. Health Targets 95
IV. Safety Issues 131
V. Considerations for Strain Selection 132
VI. Research Needs 133
VII. Conclusions 138
References 138
Chapter 3. Defining the Role of Milkfat in Balanced Diets 148
I. Introduction 148
II. Background Information—Dietary Fat Consumption and Composition 150
III. Dietary Fat, Dairy Products, and Coronary Heart Disease 170
IV. Dietary Fat, Dairy Products, and Cancer Risk 225
V. Milkfat as Part of the Total Diet 241
VI. Conclusions and Research Needs 253
References 256
Chapter 4. Biochemistry of Cardiolipin: Sensitivity to Dietary Fatty Acids 276
I. Introduction 277
II. Discovery of Polyglycerophospholipids 278
III. Abundance of Polyglycerophospholipids 278
IV. Pathways of Polyglycerophospholipid Synthesis 281
V. Intracellular Location of Polyglycerophospholipid Synthesis 284
VI. Conformation of Cardiolipin in Biomembranes 287
VII. Degradation of Polyglycerophospholipids 291
VIII. Oxidation of Cardiolipin 292
IX. Association of Enzymes with Cardiolipin 292
X. Cardiolipin Acyl Composition 306
XI. Influence of Diet and Other Factors on Cardiolipin Content 317
XII. Possible Role of Cardiolipin in Resistance to Ethanol-Induced Membrane Disordering 319
XIII. Immunologic Activity of Cardiolipin 321
XIV. Chemical Synthesis of Acyl-Specific Cardiolipin Derivatives 331
XV. Chromatographic Separation of Cardiolipin 334
References 335
Chapter 5. Diseases and Disorders of Muscle 356
I. Introduction 357
II. Disorders and Diseases of Muscle 358
III. Disorders of Energy Metabolism 391
IV. Diseases of the Connective Tissues 404
V. Research Needs 422
VI. Summary 426
References 427
Index 442