Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins and Their Roles in Human Health and Disease

Dr. Asim K. Duttaroy is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. His research programs focus on the roles of food components on growth and development, as well as in the prevention of diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is also investigating the roles of the antiplatelet and antihypertensive properties of fruits and vegetables. His discoveries of antithrombotic factors in tomatoes and kiwifruits are patented internationally, and three companies (Provexis Limited in the United Kingdom, IDIA AS in Norway, and Genimen Pharmacon in India) are working to commercialize these discoveries. He has published over 265 original contributions and reviews, 6 books, and several book chapters and editorials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Food & Nutrition Research, as well as a guest editor of several journals such as Nutrients and Frontiers in Physiology.

• 1. Introduction to fatty acid-binding protein family, tissue expression, and ligand specificity2. Structure and functions of sterol carrier protein-2 and α-synuclein3. FABP gene family: Expression and regulation4. Involvement of FABPs in cell signaling, gene expression, and angiogenesis5. Fatty acid-binding proteins in cardiac remodeling6. Impacts of dietary lipids on cell growth and proliferation: Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins7. Roles of FABPs on endocannabinoid transport and metabolism8. Fatty acid-binding proteins inflammatory diseases9. Fatty acid-binding proteins and immune functions10. Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins in brain inflammation11. Fatty acid-binding proteins in adipose tissue inflammation12. Roles of fatty acid-binding proteins in the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus13. Fatty acid-binding proteins in the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases14. Fatty acid-binding proteins and metabolic syndrome15. Role of fatty acid-binding proteins in obesity and obesity-mediated diseases16. Fatty acid-binding proteins and their dysregulation in human diseases17. Fatty acid-binding proteins and brain diseases18. Fatty acid-binding proteins and liver diseases19. Fatty acid-binding proteins: Impacts of injury on cardiac, renal, and intestine tissues20. Fatty acid-binding proteins in celiac diseases21. Dysregulation of fatty acid-binding proteins in cancers22. Fatty acid-binding proteins in prostate cancer23. Fatty acid-binding proteins in psoriasis24. Fatty acid-binding proteins and breast cancer25. Plasma fatty acid-binding proteins as biomarkers of diseases26. Clinical usefulness of urinary fatty acid-binding proteins in assessing several diseases27. Fatty acid-binding proteins as therapeutic targets in different diseases