Chronobiology and Obesity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Garaulet, Marta. (Editor), Ordovs̀, Jose M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Endocrinology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Biomedicine general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5082-5

Circadian rhythms are such an innate part of our lives that we rarely pause to speculate why they even exist. Perhaps this is the reason why in the medical practice the circadian variability of hormones, metabolites, physiological behaviors or the relevance of time in the presence or absence of diff...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Discovery of the Clock mutant and the first mammalian clock gene and the links to obesity: Staring with animal #25
• An introduction to chronobiology
• Adipose tissue as a peripheral clock
• Processes Underlying Chronodisruption and their Proposed Association with illness
• Obesity and Chronodisrruption: An imbalance between energy intake and expenditure
• Sleep and MetS alterations
• Increased risk of diabetes due to obesity: does chronodisruption play a role?
• Genetics in chronobiology and obesity
• Chronobiology And Metabolic-Syndrome: From Genes To Systems Biology
• Index.