Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Omega-3 and Omega-6 LC-PUFA from Photosynthetic Microalgae: Studies on <i>Parietochloris incise</i> and Nannochloropsis sp.
(Inna Khozin-Goldberg, Alexei Solovchenko, Dipasmita Pal, Zvi Cohen and Sammy Boussiba, The French Associates Institute for Dryland Agriculture and Biotechnologies, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, and others)
Chapter 2. The Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids from Microalgae as Potential Sources for Health and Disease
(Lionel Ulmann, Virginie Mimouni, Vincent Blanckaert, Virginie Pasquet, Benoît Schoefs and Benoît Chénais, Université du Maine, EA2160 Mer Molécules Santé, équipe MicroMar, Le Mans, France and Département de Génie Biologique, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Laval, France)
Chapter 3. Algal-Derived Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Implications for Human Health
(Ruairi Robertson, Freddy Guihéneuf, Matthias Schmid, Dagmar B. Stengel, Gerald Fitzgerald, Paul Ross and Catherine Stanton, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Biosciences Department, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland, and others)
Chapter 4. Biomarkers of Intake and Status of Nutritional Omega 3 Fatty Acids
(M. Nissensohn and L. Serra-Majem, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, and others)
Chapter 5. Sources and Health Effects of Long Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids
(Connye N. Kuratko and Norman Salem Jr., Nutrition Science Advocacy, DSM Nutritional Lipids, Columbia, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 6. Phytoprostanes, Isoprostanes and Neuroprostanes: The Lovely Story of n-3 and n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolites
(Jean-Marie Galano, Camille Oger, Aurélien de la Torre, Claire Cuyamendous, Valérie Bultel-Poncé, Alexandre Guy, Guillaume Reversat and Thierry Durand, Institut des Biomolecules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR – CNRS – University Montpellier I and II – ENSCM, Faculty of Pharmacy, Montpellier, France)
Chapter 7. Role of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in the Modulation of the Physical Properties of Biological Membranes
(Sandra Viviana Verstraeten, Department of Biological Chemistry, IQUIFIB (UBA-CONICET), School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 8. Lipid Peroxidation of n-3 and n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Their Impact on Membrane Structure and Cell Signaling
(Natalia S. Fagali and Angel Catala, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, (INIFTA-CCT La Plata-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Chapter 9. Association of High ω-6/ω-3 Fatty Acid Ratio with Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases
(Ram Singh, Miki Takunaga, Toru Takahashi, Elena Gerasimova, Fabien De Meester and Douglas Wilson, Halberg Hospital and Research Institute, Moradabad, India, and others)
Chapter 10. Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Mechanisms Beyond LDL-Cholesterol
(Mahinda Y. Abeywardena, CSIRO – Animal, Food & Health Sciences, Adelaide SA, Australia)
Chapter 11. Role of Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in the Prevention and Treatment of Atopic Diseases
(Szimonetta Lohner and Tamas Decsi, University of Pécs, Department of Pediatrics, Péps, Hungary)
Chapter 12. Nitro Fatty Acids: Formation, Natural Sources, Anti-Inflammatory Properties and Therapeutics
(Homero Rubbo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, General Flores, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Chapter 13. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism and Cancer
(Janel Suburu, Haiqin Chen, Zhennan Gu and Yong Q. Chen, Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, and others)
Chapter 14. Lipid Signals in Haematopoeisis: Roles in Cell Proliferation and Fate
(H. Anne Leaver and Dino Rotondo, Cell Biology R&D, SNBTS & Clinical Neurosciences, Edinburgh, UK, and others)
Index