The Link Between Nutrition, Developmental Plasticity and Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 1700
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; phenotypic plasticity; skeletal muscle; locomotor behavior; cerebral palsy; neuropharmacology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition is one of the factors that can influence the plasticity of organisms. Developmental plasticity is one of the branches of phenotypic plasticity, which specifically works on the trajectory of growth and development of individuals from the pre-gestational period to adulthood. Environmental stimuli such as malnutrition models due to a low-protein diet or obesity due to a high-fat diet can promote permanent or non-permanent morphological, physiological, or behavioral changes throughout an individual's life, which are explained by the change in phenotype through adaptations provided by plasticity. Nutritional interventions, such as vitamins, polyphenols, and functional foods, among others, can be used as strategies to improve human health. These interventions can promote cognitive (central nervous system), behavioral, muscular, cardiovascular, and intestinal (microbiota) changes or reduce inflammatory conditions related to diet throughout life.
This Special Issue aims to bring together leading scientific researchers to provide highly qualified manuscripts on nutrition and malnutrition (undernutrition or obesity) in light of developmental plasticity and associations with human health in situations of early brain injury or not. We aim to understand this association of nutrition with human health, whether through immediate or permanent adaptive responses throughout life.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Nutrients.
Dr. Ana Elisa Toscano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malnutrition
- cerebral palsy
- phenotypic plasticity
- polyphenols
- early brain injury
- vitamins
- cognition
- skeletal muscle
- brain
- inflammation
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