Overview
- Summarizes various comorbidities related to obesity
- Highlights the links between gut microbiota and obesity-related diseases
- Reviews the immunological processes that regulate obesity
- Presents the role of nanotechnology as a therapeutic regime in obesity
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book summarizes the effects of obesity on health and its correlation with a wide range of debilitating and life-threatening conditions in humans. It discusses the possible pathological mechanisms that are involved in the development of obesity and highlights obesity-associated molecular mechanisms that contribute to reproductive dysfunctions in men and women.
The book provides mechanistic insights on the role of obesity in cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, and examines the role of the complementary molecular mechanism of the gut microbiota in the development of obesity. It also reviews the interaction between the metabolic system and immune cells in the pathogenesis of obesity-associated diseases. Lastly, it assesses the latest advances in nanomedicine as an emerging strategy for the treatment of obesity.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Asita Elengoe is Head of the Department of Biotechnology at the Faculty of Science, Lincoln University College, Malaysia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Bioscience and Master of Science in Biotechnology (2010) from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her research is focused on cancer, gene therapy, computational biology, natural products and medicinal plants. She is a member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB) the United Kingdom, an editor for the SCIREA Journal of Biology, and an assistant executive editor for the International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research. She received the ‘Young Researcher in Biotechnology’ Award at the International Healthcare Awards 2018, Chennai, India.
Dr. Methil Kannan Kutty is currently a Professor of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine, Lincoln University College, Malaysia. Previously, he has served at the Universiti Islam Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UITM, International Medical University, Royal College of Medicine and King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He served as a visiting Professor at Madras Medical College for five years. He has more than 160 publications in peer-reviewed journals to his credit and has authored seven books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Obesity and its Impact on Health
Editors: Methil Kannan Kutty, Asita Elengoe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6408-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6407-3Published: 24 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6410-3Published: 24 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6408-0Published: 23 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 181
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Imaging / Radiology, Metabolic Diseases, Metabolomics, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Immunology