Diabetes: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants

Diabetes: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants bridges the trans-disciplinary divide among diabetologists, endocrinologists, and nutritionists in understanding and treating diabetes. The book covers, in a single volume, the science of oxidative stress in diabetes and the potentially therapeutic use of natural antioxidants in the diet or food matrix. The processes within the science of oxidative stress are described in concert with other processes such as apoptosis, cell signaling, receptor-mediated responses and more. This approach recognizes that diseases are usually multifactorial and that oxidative stress is a single component of this.

Pharmacological treatments for diabetes are commonly marked by unwanted side effects, leading to treatment efforts using naturally occurring substances. But a plant-based approach alone is not sufficient; understanding the processes inherent in the oxidative stress of diabetes is vital for clinical workers, dietitians, and nutritionists.

This translational work provides that understanding. The book begins by covering the basic biology of oxidative stress from molecular biology to imaging in relation to diabetes. There are chapters on neuropathy, nephropathy, atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathy, and retinopathy. The book then moves on to antioxidants in foods, including plants, components of the diet, and their relevance to diabetes.

Nutritionists will use the information related to mitochondrial oxidative stress in one disease and propose new diet-related strategies to prevent such conditions arising in another unrelated disease.Dietitians will prescribe new foods or diets containing antioxidants for conditions that are refractory by conventional pharmacological treatments.Dietitians, after learning about the basic biology of oxidative stress, will be able to suggest new treatments to their multidisciplinary teams.Nutritionists and dietitians will learn about cell signaling and will be able to suggest preventive or therapeutic strategies with antioxidant-rich foods to reduce damage done by diseases involving abnormal cell signaling.

1. Oxidative stress and diabetic neuropathy
2. Oxidative stress in diabetic nephropathy
3. Oxidative stress in diabetic atherosclerosis
4. Diabetic stroke and oxidative stress
5. Diabetic cardiomyopathy and oxidative stress
6. Oxidative stress in diabetic retinopathy
7. Beta glucan and neuroprotection in diabetes
8. Selenium and diabetic peripheral neuropathy
9. Neuropathy and micronutrients supplementation
10. Nigella sativa oil, diabetic neuropathy and oxidative stress
11. Diabetic nephropathy, propolis and oxidative stress
12. Green tea, oxidative stress and diabetic nephropathy
13. Diabetic nephropathy and tocotrienol
14. Resveratrol, diabetic nephropathy and oxidative stress
15. Anti-RAGE compounds, atherosclerosis and diabetes
16. Vitamin E and vascular protection in diabetes
17. Ginkgo biloba, atherosclerosis protection in diabetes
18. Zinc supplementation and oxidative stress of vascular tissues
19. Taurine and cardiac oxidative stress
20. Statins, diabetic oxidative stress and vascular tissue
21. Herbal Chrysanthemi Flos, oxidative damage and diabetic vascular protection
22. Antioxidant supplements and diabetic retinopathy
23. Neuroprotective lutein in the retina
24. Anti-oxidant related micronutrients and diabetic retinopathy
25. Resveratrol, oxidative stress and diabetic liver
26. Pomegranate juice, oxidative stress and the lung in diabetes
27. Rosemary extract in diabetes
28. Antioxidative effects of allium cepa in diabetes
29. Citrus flavonoids and oxidative stress in diabetes
30. Oxidative stress, diabetes and iron

Gingseng, diabetes and oxidative stress