Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins and Their Roles in Human Health and Disease

Dr. Asim K. Duttaroy is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. His research programs focus on the roles of food components on growth and development, as well as in the prevention of diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is also investigating the roles of the antiplatelet and antihypertensive properties of fruits and vegetables. His discoveries of antithrombotic factors in tomatoes and kiwifruits are patented internationally, and three companies (Provexis Limited in the United Kingdom, IDIA AS in Norway, and Genimen Pharmacon in India) are working to commercialize these discoveries. He has published over 265 original contributions and reviews, 6 books, and several book chapters and editorials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Food & Nutrition Research, as well as a guest editor of several journals such as Nutrients and Frontiers in Physiology.

Introduction to fatty acid-binding protein family, tissue expression, and ligand specificity
Structure and functions of sterol carrier protein-2 and a-synuclein
FABP gene family: Expression and regulation
Involvement of FABPs in cell signaling, gene expression, and angiogenesis
Fatty acid-binding proteins in cardiac remodeling
Impacts of dietary lipids on cell growth and proliferation: Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins
Roles of FABPs on endocannabinoid transport and metabolism
Fatty acid-binding proteins inflammatory diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins and immune functions
Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins in brain inflammation
Fatty acid-binding proteins in adipose tissue inflammation
Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins in the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Fatty acid-binding proteins in the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins and metabolic syndrome
Role of fatty acid-binding proteins in obesity and obesity-mediated diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins and their dysregulation in human diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins and brain diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins and liver diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins: Impacts of injury on cardiac, renal, and intestine tissues
Fatty acid-binding proteins in celiac diseases
Dysregulation of fatty acid-binding proteins in cancers
Fatty acid-binding proteins in prostate cancer
Fatty acid-binding proteins in psoriasis
Fatty acid-binding proteins and breast cancer
Plasma fatty acid-binding proteins as biomarkers of diseases
Clinical usefulness of urinary fatty acid-binding proteins in assessing several diseases
Fatty acid-binding proteins as therapeutic targets in different diseases