Emerging technologies for nutrition research : potential for assessing military performance capability /
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| Corporate author / creator: | Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Military Nutrition Research. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 711 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102330 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Committee Summary and Recommendations. 1. Project Overview and Committee Summary. 2. Committee Responses to Questions, Conclusions, and Recommendations
- II. The Current Army Program and Its Future Needs. 3. Emerging Technologies in Nutrition Research for the Military: Overview of the Issues / James A. Vogel
- III. Techniques of Body Composition Assessment. 4. Military Applications of Body Composition Assessment Technologies / Karl E. Friedl. 5. Imaging Techniques of Body Composition: Advantages of Measurement and New Uses / Steven Heymsfield, Robert Ross and ZiMian Wang [and others]. 6. Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry: Research Issues and Equipment / Wendy M. Kohrt. 7. Bioelectrical Impedance: A History, Research Issues, and Recent Consensus / Wm. Cameron Chumlea and Shumei S. Guo
- IV. Tracer Techniques for the Study of Metabolism. 8. Stable Isotope Tracers: Technological Tools That Have Emerged / Dennis M. Bier.
- 9. Measurement of Energy Substrate Metabolism Using Stable Isotopes / Robert R. Wolfe. 10. Combined Stable Isotope-Positron Emission Tomography for In Vivo Assessment of Protein Metabolism / V.R. Young, Y.-M. Yu and H. Hsu [and others]. 11. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Liver and Muscle Glycogen Metabolism in Humans / Gerald I. Shulman
- V. Ambulatory Techniques for Measurement of Energy Expenditure. 12. Doubly Labeled Water for Energy Expenditure / James P. DeLany. 13. Measurement of Oxygen Uptake with Portable Equipment / John F. Patton. 14. Advances in Ambulatory Monitoring: Using Foot Contact Time to Estimate the Metabolic Cost of Locomotion / Reed W. Hoyt and Peter G. Weyand. 15. Noninvasive Measurement of Plasma Metabolites Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy / Donald Bodenner
- VI. Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Nutrition. 16. The Role of Metals in Gene Expression / Raymond K. Blanchard and Robert J. Cousins.
- 17. Metabolic Regulation of Gene Expression / Howard C. Towle. 18. Use of Isolated-Cell and Metabolic Techniques Applied to Vitamin Transport and Disposition / Donald B. McCormick. 19. Assessment of Cellular Dysfunction During Physiologic Stress / Guy Miller
- VII. Assessment of Immune Function. 20. The Validity of Blood and Urinary Cytokine Measurements for Detecting the Presence of Inflammation / Lyle L. Moldawer. 21. New Approaches to the Study of Abnormal Immune Function / Gabriel Virella, Candace Enockson and Mariano La Via. 22. New Technologies for Producing Systemic and Mucosal Immunity by Oral Immunization: Immunoprophylaxis in Meals, Ready-to-Eat / Arthur O. Anderson
- VIII. Functional and Behavioral Measures of Nutritional Status. 23. Involuntary Muscle Contraction to Assess Nutritional Status / James S. Hayes. 24. Application of Cognitive Performance Assessment Technology to Military Nutrition Research / Mary Z. Mays.
- 25. New Techniques for Assessment of Mental Performance in the Field / Harris R. Lieberman and Bryan P. Coffey. 26. The Iowa Driving Simulator: Using Simulation for Human Performance Measurement / Ginger S. Watson and Yiannis E. Papelis
- App. A. Workshop Agenda
- App. B. Biographical Sketches
- App. D. Emerging Technologies for Nutrition Research
- A Selected Bibliography.