Food
& Health
 Unit
of Epidemiology and Population Genetics
The
primary purpose of the Unit of Epidemiology and
Population Genetics of the ISA is to learn the
multifactorial causes of nutrition-related diseases and
to discover new ways to prevent and treat them. We strive
to accomplish this goal through research aimed at
improved understanding of how diet influences health, at
the dissemination of new knowledge about nutrition to
health professionals and the public and at the
development of strategies to enhance public care for
nutrition
Unit
of Sensory Analysis and Consumer Scienze
Study
of the factors involved in the food choice process with
particular reference to consumer acceptability and
preference..
Unit
of Nutrition and Metabolism
Our
scientific activity focuses mainly on: The effects of
dietary carbohydrates on postprandial plasma glucose and
lipid metabolism in humans, Validation of non invasive
methods to study gastric emptying rate and Identification
of early metabolic markers of predisposition to
obesity.
Unit
of Food Chemioprevention
The
current interest of our Laboratory is to understand, at
molecular level, how several non nutritional components
present in our regular diet (primarily, natural
antioxidants), or molecules derived from food
transformation, exert a protective effect towards
degenerative pathologies.
Unit
of Immunobiology
The
Unit of Immunobiology (UIB) focuses on the interaction
between food and immune system, particularly on the gut
associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) as it functions in the
maintainance of health and as it malfunctions in the
production of food-related diseases. Current research is
directed both at understanding the mechanisms that lead
to the development of food intolerances and to generate
an expanded knowledge base of the GALT physiology.
Fundamental aims are then seen in the detection and
production of molecular and cell tools useful to recover
oral tolerance.
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