Abnormalities of fatty acid metabolism are recognized to play a significant role in human disease, but the mechanisms remain poorly understood. Long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCAD) catalyzes the initial step in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO). We produced a mouse model of LCAD deficiency with severely impaired FAO. Matings between LCAD +/- mice yielded an abnormally low number of L...

in this paper, a new framework has been developed for compatibility analysis of predictive climatic variables distribution with reference evapotranspiration (eto) in probabilistic analysis of water requirement. initially, measured monthly meteorological data of four cities of iran including kerman, shiraz, ramsar and babolsar synoptic weather station recorded from 1961 to 2003 were considered b...

in agricultural practices, reference evapotranspiration (et0) parameters need to be specified for crop water requirement determination. although, the crop water requirement is not an easy task. numerous mathematical models and experimental methods have been developed for this purpose in the entire world. on the other hand, ten-daily and monthly average meteorological data are used in many of ir...

a Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy; b Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; c Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; d Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London ...

* Vinod Ahuja is a faculty member at the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Elizabeth Redmond is a consultant at the Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch, FAO, Rome. This paper was prepared during Vinod Ahuja’s visit to FAO in April-May 2001. We sincerely acknowledge the inputs received from Henning Steinfeld and Joachim Otte on ...

RATIONALE The energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinases (AMPK) is thought to play an important role in regulating myocardial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) via its phosphorylation and inactivation of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase (ACC). However, studies supporting this have not directly assessed whether the maintenance of FAO rates and subsequent cardiac function requires AMPK-dependent inhibitor...

16 Solar radiation is an important climatic variable for assessing reference evapotranspiration 17 (E0), but it is seldom available in weather station records. Meteosat satellite images processed 18 with the Heliosat-2 method provide the HelioClim-1 database, which displays spatialized 19 solar radiation data at a daily time step for Europe and Africa. The aim of the present work 20 was to inve...

While acknowledging the need to take into account recent scientific developments and, if necessary, to integrate them into nutrition recommendations on carbohydrate intake, CEFS (Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre), on behalf of all sugar manufacturers in the EU and Switzerland, can only regret that not all the available scientific evidence was considered by FAO/WHO for that purpose. On th...