<p>Section 1: General and Introductory Aspects</p> <p>1. Nutrition and diabetes: general aspects</p> <p> Ana M. Wägner, Julia Charlotte Wiebe, Rosa M. Sánchez-Hernández and Lidia García-Pérez </p> <p>2. Dietary patterns and insulin resistance </p> <p> Marcio A. Torsoni, Adriana Souza Torsoni and Marciane Milanski </p> <p>3. Beta cell metabolism, insulin production and secretion; metabolic failure resulting in diabetes</p> <p> Younan Chen, Vinicius Fernandes Cruzat and Philip Newsholme </p> <p>4. Diet-gene interactions in the development of diabetes</p> <p> Jose M. Ordovas</p> <p>5. Pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes: role of dietary factors</p> <p> Julie Christine Antvorskov, Karsten Buschard and Knud Josefsen </p> <p>Section 2: Molecular biology of the cell </p> <p>6. Oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus: molecular aspects: implications for the diet </p> <p> Lu Cai</p> <p>7. Muscle protein in type 2 diabetes: Molecular aspects</p> <p> Antonio Zorzano</p> <p>8. Mechanisms whereby wholegrain cereals modulate the prevention of type-2 diabetes </p> <p> Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Kjeld Hermansen, Mette Skou Hedemann and Merete Lindberg Hartvigsen </p> <p>9. Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors -PPARs - in glucose control </p> <p> Massimo Collino and Fausto Chiazza </p> <p>10. High-fat diets and beta-cell dysfunction: molecular aspects </p> <p> Carla B. Collares-Buzato</p> <p>11. Native fruits, anthocyanins in nutraceuticals and the insulin receptor/insulin receptor substrate-1/Akt/ forkhead box protein pathway</p> <p> N.R.V. Dragano and Anne y Castro Marques </p> <p>12. Influence of dietary factors on gut microbiota: role on insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus</p> <p> Gemma Xifra Villarroya, Eduardo Esteve and J.M Fernandez-Real </p> <p>13. Molecular aspects of Glucose regulation of pancreatic beta-cells</p> <p> Rosa Gasa, Ramon Gomis, Anna Novials and Joan-Marc Servitja </p> <p>14. Metals and signalling in diabetes </p> <p> Lu Cai</p> <p>15. Cocoa flavonoids and insulin signalling </p> <p> Sonia Ramos, M.A. Martin and Luis Goya </p> <p>16. Dietary proanthocyanidin modulation of pancreatic beta-cells: molecular aspects </p> <p> Montserrat Pinent, Mayte Blay, Anna Ardevol and Noemi Gonzalez-Abuin </p> <p>17. Dietary whey protein and Type 2 diabetes: molecular aspects </p> <p> Jaime Amaya-Farfan, Priscila Neder Morato, Carolina Soares Moura and Pablo Lollo </p> <p>18. Dietary fatty acids and C-reactive proteins in diabetes </p> <p> Giovanni Annuzzi, Ettore Griffo, Giuseppina Costabile and Lutgarda Bozzetto </p> <p>19. Alcoholic beverage and diabetes: cellular and molecular effects</p> <p> Suzanne de la Monte</p> <p>Section 3: Genetic machinery and its function</p> <p>20. Alleles and risk of diabetes</p> <p> Valeriya Lyssenko</p> <p>21. Micro RNAs in diabetes</p> <p> Louise Torp Dalgaard, Sofia Anna Salö, Anja Elaine Sørensen and Julian Geiger </p> <p>22. Diabetes mellitus and intestinal Niemann-Pick C1-Like1 gene expression</p> <p> W. A. Alrefai, Pooja Malhotra, Ravinder K. Gill and Pradeep K. Dudeja </p> <p>23. Dietary long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory gene expression in type 2 diabetes</p> <p> Manohar Lal Garg</p> <p>24. Polymorphisms, carbohydrates, fat and type 2 diabetes: the example of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1)</p> <p> Jose Lopez-Miranda</p> <p>25. Genetic basis linking variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer</p> <p> Vijay Kumar Kutala</p> <p>26. Genetic determinants of pathways underlying 25(OH) vitamin D deficiency predisposing to type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus</p> <p> Dharambir K. Sanghera and Piers R. Blackett </p> <p>27. NRF2-mediated gene regulation and glucose homeostasis</p> <p> Masayuki Yamamoto and Akira Uruno </p> <p>28. Hepatic mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and type 2 diabetes</p> <p> Abdelhak Mansouri, Wolfgang Langhans, Jean Girard and Carina Prip-Buus </p> <p>29. The wnt signaling pathway and glucose homeostasis</p> <p> T. Jin</p>