Dietary Intake and Gastrointestinal Physiology
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2019) | Viewed by 9073
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Nutritional physiology; gastrointestinal mechanisms related to food intake and glycaemic control; dietary patterns for cardiometabolic health, malnutrition and frailty in older adults
Interests: whole grains; dietary fibre; gastrointestinal physiology; human intervention studies; seaweeds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The long-term consequences of dietary habit on the gut could affect the risk of many non-communicable diseases. Despite this, the parameters of what constitutes “normal” gastrointestinal physiology in humans remain poorly understood. The aim of the current Special Issue is to bring together original articles and reviews that help to understand the complex interplay between dietary intake and the parameters of gastrointestinal function.
The expected focus of original studies and review articles may include but is not limited to:
- Human studies, or in vitro, in vivo or in silico experimental studies relevant to modelling human gastrointestinal physiology.
- Acute and long-term dietary intake (including whole diets, foods, essential and non-essential nutrients) that could affect gastrointestinal physiology.
- Processes of macronutrient digestion and/or nutrient absorption along the entire length of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Objective or qualitative physiological factors affecting food intake, such as oral health status, taste, gastrointestinal chemo- or mechanosensation and satiety.
- Signalling pathways between the gastrointestinal tract and other organs in the body.
- The relationship between dietary intake with gastrointestinal motility, epithelial structure and function, processes of mucosal defence or exocrine and endocrine secretions of the gut and its accessory organs.
- Consideration of the interplay of the large intestinal microbiota with different dietary factors and/or parameters of gastrointestinal function and dysfunction.
Dr. Natalie Luscombe-Marsh
Dr. Iain A. Brownlee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Gastrointestinal health
- Gut motility
- Digestion
- Gastrointestinal signalling
- Gastrointestinal secretion
- Large intestinal microbiota
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