Research Catalog

Title

Emerging technologies for nutrition research : potential for assessing military performance capability / Committee on Military Nutrition Research, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine ; Sydne J. Carlson-Newberry and Rebecca B. Costello, editors.

Author

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Military Nutrition Research.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Newberry, Sydne J.
• Costello, Rebecca B.

Description

xvi, 711 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Soldiers > Nutrition > United States
• Nutrition > Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-680) and index.

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 [et al.]. 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 [et al.]. 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.

LCCN

97068316

OCLC

ocm37736672

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