Manabu T Nakamura
Associate Professor
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Nakamura received his DVM degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Practice in veterinary medicine for several years made him recognize the importance of nutrition in disease prevention, and he started his graduate study in nutrition at the University of California, Davis. After completing his PhD work, he continued his extensive research training in molecular nutrition at University of California at Davis, State University of New York at Stony Brook and University of Texas at Austin. He joined the University of Illinois in 2000. The main focus of his current research is to develop a cost-effective program of dietary treatment of obesity.
Research Interest
Dietary prevention and treatment of obesity (Current project: Individualized diet improvement program) Transcriptional regulation of macronutrient metabolism (Current project: Regulatory mechanism of insulin sensitivity in adipose tissue) Function and metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (Current project: Dietary PUFA on macrophage activation)
Publications
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Koo H.Y., Miyashita M., Cho B.H.S. & Nakamura M.T. (2009) Replacing dietary glucose with fructose increases ChREBP activity and SREBP-1 protein in rat liver nucleus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 390: 285-289
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Roqueta-Rivera M., Abbott T.L., Sivaguru M., Hess R.A. & Nakamura M.T. (2011) Deficiency in the omega-3 fatty acid pathway results in failure of acrosome biogenesis in mice. Biol Reprod 85:721-732
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Nakamura MT, Yudell BE, Loor JJ. Regulation of energy metabolism by long-chain fatty acids. Prog Lipid Res 53:124-144 (2014)
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Su H, Zhou D, Pan Y-X, Wang X, Nakamura MT (2016). Compensatory induction of Fads1 gene expression in heterozygous Fads2-null mice and by diet with a high n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio. J Lipid Res 57:1995-2004
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Pratt NS, Ellison BD, Benjamin AS, Nakamura MT (2016). Improvements in recall and food choices using a graphical method to deliver information of select nutrients. Nutr Res 36:44-56
