Responses to Nutrition of Protein Metabolism and Evidence-Based Clinical Outcome in Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 36972
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diabetes; insulin resistance; amino acid and protein metabolism; stable isotopes; dietary fibers; environmental impact of diets
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Dear Colleagues,
Dietary proteins are key components of nutrition. Nutrition, on turn, is one key factor conditioning recovery from disease. The relationships between nutrition and clinical outcome(s) have been addressed by a tremendous number of investigations over years. Nevertheless, an updated, evidence-based re-assessment of these relationships seems timely and appropriate.
This special issue aims at highlighting the tight relationships between protein/amino acid metabolism and human nutrition, from both a pathophysiological and a practical perspective. Dietary proteins serve as amino acid sources, to sustain the synthesis of body proteins as well as of a number of amino acid-related substances. Proteins must be introduced in appropriate amounts to provide the essential amino acids required for body growth, maintenance and recovery from disease. There are major roles also for non-essential amino acids in sustaining body metabolism and nutrition.
Major, modern issues in the relationships among nutrition, protein/amino acid metabolism and clinical outcome could be: 1) A critical reappraisal of the methodologies used to estimate protein and amino acid utilization in vivo in humans; 2) New findings in protein digestion, absorption, and nutritional availability; 3) Nutraceutical effect of dietary proteins. 4) Current protein and amino acid requirements in healthy and diseased conditions; 5) Relationships between energy and protein/amino acid utilization; 6) Evidence-based relevance of protein nutrition in clinical outcome.
Prof. Paolo Tessari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Protein metabolism
- Requirements
- Essential amino acids
- Non-essential amino acids
- Energy and protein utilization
- Anabolism
- Clinical outcome
- Recovery from disease
- Evidence-based medicine
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