Health, Disease, and Chronobiology: Molecular and Genetics Aspects
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2025) | Viewed by 4183
Special Issue Editors
2. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Interests: precision nutrition; omics; Mediterranean diet; lifestyle; cardiovascular disease; obesity; nutrigenomics; epigenomics; metabolomics; transcriptomic; gene–diet interaction
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2. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
3. Sleep Center of Excellence, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
4. Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Interests: obesity; cardiovascular disease; mediterranean diet; nutrigenetic; nutrigenomic; sleep deprivation; circadian rhythms; taste perception; aging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The daily fluctuations observed in numerous physiologic features are together referred to as circadian rhythm. Chronobiology is the study of biological rhythms and the organization of biological time. The circadian clock consists of transcriptional feedback loops between clock genes that regulate variations in functionally relevant genes in nearly all human cells. The disruption of the circadian clock is a risk factor for several diseases including cardiovascular disorders, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurological diseases, and cancer, among others. Every day, the study of chronobiological features of lifestyle and health receives greater emphasis. Currently, it has been demonstrated that there is a significant association between chronotype and an increased risk of depression and cardiometabolic disorders. To better comprehend the molecular and cellular bases of these connections, however, additional mechanistic research is required in both human and animal models.
With this Special Issue, we hope to collect both original contributions and review papers focusing on the analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, microbiome, transcriptome, and omics integration in relation to chronobiological aspects of health and disease.
Prof. Dr. Dolores Corella
Dr. Rocío Barragán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronobiology
- timing of food
- sleep
- time-restricted eating
- metabolism
- genomics
- epigenomics
- metabolomics
- microbiome
- mechanisms
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