Chronobiology and Obesity

1. Discovery of the Clock Mutant and the First Mammalian Clock Gene and the Links to Obesity: Starting with Animal #25
Fred W. Turek

2. An Introduction to Chronobiology
Juan Antonio Madrid Pérez

3. Adipose Tissue as a Peripheral Clock
Purificación Gómez-Abellán, Marta Garaulet

4. Processes Underlying Chronodisruption and Their Proposed Association with Illness
Russel J. Reiter, Xiaoyan Liu, Lucien C. Manchester, Sergio A. Rosales-Corral, Dun-Xian Tan, Juan Antonio Madrid Pérez

5. Obesity and Chronodisruption: An Imbalance Between Energy Intake and Expenditure
Oren Froy

6. Sleep, Energy Homeostasis and Metabolic Syndrome Alterations
Anthony H. Tsang, Jana Husse, Henrik Oster

7. Increased Risk of Diabetes due to Obesity: Does Chronodisruption Play a Role?
Susanne E. Fleur, Andries Kalsbeek

8. Genetics in Chronobiology and Obesity
Marta Garaulet, Jose M. Ordovás

9. Chronobiology and Metabolic Syndrome: From Genes to Systems Biology
Silvia Sookoian, Carlos J. Pirola

Keywords: Biomedicine, Human Genetics, Endocrinology, Biomedicine general