The first issue of Food & Function in 2011 is now online. The editorial, written by Gary Williamson, Steven Chen, Cesar Fraga and Sarah Ruthven, gives an overview of the journal’s highlights over the first three issues in 2010 and looks forward to the year ahead and plans for Volume 2. It can be read here.
The cover artwork of this issue is from Junji Terao from the University of Tokushima in Japan. Professor Terao is on our Advisory Board and the cover highlights his review on quercetin metabolism. Quercetin is an anti-oxidative flavanoid ubiquitously distributed in vegetables; onion and lettuce are particularly quercetin rich. Extensive studies using cell culture and animal models have clearly indicated anti-atherosclerotic and anti-carcinogenic effects, as well as protective action in the central nervous system. Quercetin exerts these effects through a wide variety of mechanisms which are still being elucidated. Professor Terao is one of the leaders in the field in this area and has spent many years studying how dietary quercetin reaches cell and tissue targets and modulates cellular processes.
Take a look at Food & Function 2011 issue 1 here!
Read the cover article by Professor Terao ‘Conjugated quercetin glucuronides as bioactive metabolites and precursors of aglycone in vivo’ here.
