MBN 260
Metabolic Bases of Human Health and Diseases Graduate Level
The physiological bases of human nutrient homeostasis and common disorders resulting from over and under nutrition will be discussed with a specific focus on macronutrients. Topics related to nutrient deficiency and excess will include adaptation to starvation and the effects of caloric restriction on life-span, obesity and its complications, lipoprotein metabolism and cardiovascular disease, as well as a detailed discussion of the causes, disease mechanisms, and treatment of diabetes mellitus.
Topics
- After completing the lectures and discussion sessions, students will have developed an advanced understanding of the contribution of nutrients and metabolic pathway regulation to the development of human diseases. This will be a direct extension and disease oriented application of the general metabolic pathways discussed in NST103. After this unit, the students will have gained insights into basic concepts in metabolic biology, their relationship to common disorders such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease as well as the basis for metabolism based pharmacological interventions. In addition critical reading of primary literature and the presentation of advanced topics in metabolic biology will be practiced.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027