The Role of Lipids in Human Health
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 256
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipid biochemistry; lipidomics; omega-3 fatty acids; sphingolipid metabolism; cancer biology; applied nutrition; space life sciences
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Interests: lipid biochemistry; lipidomics; omega-3 fatty acids; sphingolipid metabolism; cancer biology; applied nutrition; space life sciences
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lipids are a heterogeneous class of biomolecules whose altered metabolism is one of the key features for human health and diseases. Lipids are essential for energy storage, membrane structure, and synthesis of bioactive molecules. Through membrane dynamics, lipid-protein and lipid-lipid interactions, lipids and their metabolites modulate cell signaling, proliferation and differentiation, inflammatory and degenerative processes, and immune response.
Lipids are an essential component for the homeostatic function in human health. Every organ and tissue in the body depends on lipids for some of its most essential functions, and dysregulation in their metabolism and profile might be correlated with several human diseases.
As a result, this Special Issue will discuss new developments in our knowledge of how lipids and their metabolites affect human health and pathological states. In addition, this Special Issue represents an opportunity to present new molecular and/or cellular mechanisms and propose new targets to ameliorate human health and counteract diseases.
Dr. Angela Maria Rizzo
Dr. Irma Colombo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lipids
- lipidomics
- fatty acids
- sphingolipids
- steroids
- metabolism
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