Chemical alterations and regulations of biomolecules in lifestyle-related diseases.
We know experientially that not only nutrient factors but also non-nutritive functional food factors are playing important roles in maintenance of homeostasis, health promotion, and disease prevention. Although some of these effective behaviors are supported by accumulating scientific evidences, it is in general difficult to determine properly in human. Therefore, the discovering of novel biomarker and developments of the analytical method are one of the prudent strategies to understand disease etiology and evaluate efficacies of functional food factors via monitoring the pathophysiological alteration in live body, tissue, and cells. This review describes recent our findings on (1) formation mechanism, bioactivities, quantitative determination of cholesterol ozonolysis product, secosterol as possible biomarker for lifestyle-related disease, and (2) chemical biology approach for the investigating molecular mechanisms of most promising cancer chemopreventive food factors, isothiocyanate-inducing bioactivities.
['Miyoshi|Noriyuki|N|']
D050197:Atherosclerosis D002784:Cholesterol D005247:Feeding Behavior D055951:Functional Food D006293:Health Promotion D006706:Homeostasis D006801:Humans D017879:Isothiocyanates D008019:Life Style D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases D012632:Secosteroids
lifestyle-related disease secosterol LC-MS isothiocyanate