BIOCHEMISTRY OF NUTRITION

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 3° Year - Curriculum ALIMENTAZIONE E SALUTE

Teaching Staff: Valeria Sorrenti
Credit Value: 6
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 2°

Detailed Course Content

Food and human nutrition .

-The Need of energy :

• Bioenergetics

• Mitochondrial respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation

• Energy Function of food

-Vitamins and minerals in food.

-Digestion and absorption of carbohydrates.

-Digestion and absorption of lipids.

-Digestion and absorption of proteins.

-Metabolic fate of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in food .

-Nutritional considerations on the metabolism of carbohydrates .

-Nutritional considerations on lipid metabolism .

-Nutritional considerations on protein metabolism .

-Signal transduction

-Metabolic integration of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins; metabolic regulation in the feeding- fasting cycle

-Nutrition and health:

• Free radicals and oxidative stress; Food as a source of antioxidants

• Nutrigenomics

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2. U. Leuzzi, E. Bellocco, D. Barreca.Biochimica della nutrizione. Ed. ZANICHELLI

3. N. Siliprandi, G. Tettamanti .BIOCHIMICA MEDICA. Ed.PICCIN