Advances in Nutritional Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Transfer of Nutrients across the Perfused Human Placenta

   • Joseph Dancis

   Pages 1-10

3. Immunoenhancement in Wasting Protein-Energy Malnutrition: Assessment of Present Information and Proposal of a New Concept

   • B. Woodward, S. M. Filteau

   Pages 11-34

4. The Role of Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension

   • Pirjo Pietinen, Antti Aro

   Pages 35-78

5. Energy Metabolism of the Newborn Infant

   • Robin K. Whyte, Henry S. Bayley

   Pages 79-108

6. Nutritional Assessment of the Hospitalized Patient

   • Paul M. Starker

   Pages 109-118

7. Nutritional Modulation of Oxygen Radical Pathology

   • Harold H. Draper

   Pages 119-145

8. Back Matter

   Pages 147-149

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Volume 8 of Advances in Nutritional Research deals with several topics of prime current interest in nutritional research, including the role of nutrition in hypertension, in the infections associated with protein-energy malnu­ trition, and in pathological conditions associated with the generation of oxygen radicals in the tissues, as well as with topics of ongoing interest. Recent research indicates that reduction of obesity, of alcohol intake, and of sodium intake by salt-sensitive individuals, are the most effective non­ pharmacological means of reducing high blood pressure. A new approach to therapy for infections caused by protein-energy malnutrition, based on restoration of immunocompetence by administration of thyroid and anti­ glucocorticoid hormones, is presented. Current research into the role of nutrition in modulating tissue damage caused by oxygen radicals generated in various pathologies is reviewed. Two· chapters deal with perinatal nutrition, one with the transfer of nutrients across the placenta and the other with the energy requirements of term and preterm infants. Another dicusses methods of assessing the nutritional status of hospitalized patients. vii Contents Chapter 1. The Transfer of Nutrients across the Perfused Human Placenta ................................... . Joseph Dands 1. Introduction................................. 1 2. Comments on Comparative Placentology . . . . . . . . . . .• . . 1 . 3. The Perfusion Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 3 . . . . 4. Review of Transfer Experiments .................... 3 4.1. Transfer of Glutamic Acid .................... 3 4.2. Transfer of Riboflavin .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . . 6 . . . 5. Potentials and Umltations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 9 . . . .References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 10 . . . . . .

• Amino acid
• Calcium
• Intervention
• Lipid
• Niacin
• Nutrition
• Oxidation
• Riboflavin
• Vitamin
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• body composition
• cancer
• megnesium
• metabolism

• University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

  Harold H. Draper

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