Biochem Flashcards
Appetite, energy expenditure, genotype, digestion, metabolism, availability of food, customs and presence of disease.
Factors that contribute to the state of nutrition
Important regulators of food intake
Leptin, Ghrelin and Insulin
Circulates, in the body, at levels proportional to body fat.
Leptin
Adipose tissue produces
Adipokines
Regulate metabolic processes to meet the body’s needs.
Adipokines
produces adipokines that regulate metabolic processes to meet the body’s needs.
Adipose tissue
AMP and AMP/ATP regulate
AMP-activated kinase (AMPK)
Senses cellular energy levels
AMPK
regulate AMP-activated kinase (AMPK) that senses cellular energy levels.
AMP and AMP/ATP
regulates rate-limiting enzymes in energy-producing and using pathways.
AMPK
inhibit energy-utilizing pathways and stimulate energy generating pathways.
High levels of AMPK activity
Increased _______ increases appetite
Ghrelin
favors accumulation of lipids in the visceral fatty tissue.
Ghrelin
Estimated average requirements (EAR) for calories changes with
Age and sex
Estimated daily protein requirements vary with
Age and sex
The ideal amount of calorie intake in a day is equal to the
Calorie utilization for that day
for a nutrient is a value that is adequate for the great majority of individuals
Recommended daily allowance (RDA)
Reflects amount that is adequate for half of the population.
Estimated average requirement (EAR)
Different nutrients have different
energy content
Has the highest energy content per weight.
Fat
has a high-energy content.
Alcohol
correlated with an increase in the use of high fructose corn syrup.
Increases in obesity
made by breaking down cornstarch into glucose using amylase followed by conversion to fructose with glucose isomerase.
High fructose corn syrup
There are several potential health issues associated with comsumption of high fructose corn syrup including:
mercury exposure, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, long-term liver damage, increased risk of diabetes and weight gain and obesity
Protein-calorie malnutrition causes a number of health problems including:
decreased protein synthesis and glucose transport, fatty liver, liver necrosis and fibrosis, depression, hypothermia, compromised immune function and would healing, decreased cardiac and renal function, loss of muscle.
associated with an increased risk for several conditions including: type 2 diabetes, hypertension and stroke, dyslipidemia, gall stones, respiratory disorders, musculoskeletal disorders and several cancers including breast, endometrial, ovarian, gall bladder and colon.
Obesity
not essential and provide no benefit to human health.
Trans fatty acids
increase levels of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol).
Saturated fats
increase levels of LDL and also lower levels of HDL (good cholesterol); thus increasing the risk of coronary heart disease
Trans fats
Prime side for drug metabolism
Liver
-also in plasma kidney, lung, gut wall
1)Increase in drug hydrophilicity and ability to be excreted (hepatic) 2)Metabolic products are less pharmacologically active than the substrate drug 3)Inactive prodrugs converted to their active forms (hepatic)
3 potential outcomes of drug metabolism
can decrease effectiveness of drugs that target DNA.
An increase in DNA repair activity
results from an increase in the amount of transporter proteins that can pump many different drugs out of the cell.
Multidrug resistant
4 essential processes needed to develop from a single cell into a multicellular organism:
- Cell proliferation
- Cell specialization
- Cell interaction
- Cell movement
Where is Ghrelin produced?
Stomach