Metabolic Imaging in Obesity
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology and Clinical Metabolic Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 1714
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metabolic imaging has disclosed several organ-specific morphological and functional features that associate with obesity and its complications in humans and animal models. However, the common grouping of people based on BMI is distant from the approach required to achieve precision medicine, whose rationale is instead well-suited to the heterogeneity of obesity determinants, phenotypes and health risks. In addition, most studies are descriptive and cross-sectional, with insufficient coverage of mechanistic understanding and cause–effect demonstration.
This special issue of Metabolites, "Metabolic Imaging in Obesity," is aimed to generate a new vision of how metabolic imaging can contribute to the advancement of precision medicine in the field of obesity prevention and treatment, both from a fundamental and an applied point of view. The topics that will be covered by this Special Issue include (but are not limited to): metabolism in relevant organs, life-course changes, organ cross-talk, mechanistic understanding, cause–effect proof, tissue inflammation, biomarker development, personalized treatment, cutting-edge approaches, technology and probes, radiomics, omics, mathematical modeling, metabolic flux analysis, and regulatory science. Manuscripts dealing with other challenging issues are also highly desired.
Prof. Dr. Patricia Iozzo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fatty acids
- glucose
- amino acids
- inflammation
- cross-talk
- scanners
- image (post) processing
- new probes
- risk stratification
- disease models
- drug/nutrient development
- lifestyle, age, sex, and gender specificities
