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A diet designed to cause an individual to lose weight.

Dietary practice of avoiding animal products in any form.

The dietary practice of completely avoiding meat or fish products in the DIET, consuming VEGETABLES, CEREALS, and NUTS. Some vegetarian diets called …

A pattern of food consumption adopted mainly by the people of North America and Western Europe. It is mainly characterized by high intake of MEAT, pr…

The remnants of plant cell walls that are resistant to digestion by the alimentary enzymes of man. It comprises various polysaccharides and lignins.

Sucrose present in the diet. It is added to food and drinks as a sweetener.

MONOSACCHARIDES and DISACCHARIDES present in food, such as those present in fruits and vegetables and milk products, or those added to food such as D…

Products in capsule, tablet or liquid form that provide dietary ingredients, and that are intended to be taken by mouth to increase the intake of nut…

The tendency of a gas or solute to pass from a point of higher pressure or concentration to a point of lower pressure or concentration and to distrib…

The process of breakdown of food for metabolism and use by the body.

Properties and processes of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM and DENTITION as a whole or of any of its parts.

Properties and processes of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM as a whole or of any of its parts.

The process by which two molecules of the same chemical composition form a condensation product or polymer.

The most common of the microsatellite tandem repeats (MICROSATELLITE REPEATS) dispersed in the euchromatic arms of chromosomes. They consist of two n…

The chromosomal constitution of cells, in which each type of CHROMOSOME is represented twice. Symbol: 2N or 2X.

A protein domain originally identified in DISCOIDINS. It occurs in a variety of unrelated proteins in multicellular organisms, where it recognizes di…

A form of disulfide stress-induced CELL DEATH triggered under glucose starvation conditions and overexpression of AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM Y+ prot…

An increase in the excretion of URINE. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

BREATH HOLDING; VASOCONSTRICTION; and a drop in HEART RATE in response to submersion of the face in cold water.

Interruptions in the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA.

Interruptions in the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA, across both strands adjacently.

Interruptions in one of the strands of the sugar-phosphate backbone of double-stranded DNA.

A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catal…

Stretches of genomic DNA that exist in different multiples between individuals. Many copy number variations have been associated with susceptibility …

Injuries to DNA that introduce deviations from its normal, intact structure and which may, if left unrepaired, result in a MUTATION or a block of DNA…

Strategies that cells use to continue DNA replication when replicative DNA polymerases stall at DNA damage-blocked replication forks. These DNA damag…

Removal of methyl groups from DNA by enzymes (such as DIOXYGENASES and N-DEMETHYLASES) or by chemical reagents.

The repair of DOUBLE-STRAND DNA BREAKS by rejoining the broken ends of DNA to each other directly.

Splitting the DNA into shorter pieces by endonucleolytic DNA CLEAVAGE at multiple sites. It includes the internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, which al…

Addition of methyl groups to DNA. DNA methyltransferases (DNA methylases) perform this reaction using S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE as the methyl group donor.