"The proceedings of the International Symposium on the Maillard Reaction held at Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia on 29-31 August 2009"-- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Maillard Reaction--A Journey from the Discovery of Advanced Glycation Endproducts to their Chief Cellular Receptor, RAGE: A Mechanism Underlying Diabetic Complications and the Inflammatory Response / Ann Marie Schmidt -- Activation of Cellular Antioxidative Defense Mechanisms by CML-RAGE Interaction / Veronika Somoza -- The Pathogenic Potential of Different Sized AGE Modified Molecules via RAGE Signalling Pathways / Josephine M. Forbes -- Glycated Proteins Bind to ERM Proteins and Modulate their Actions / E Anne McRobert -- Modification of Human Serum Albumin with Reactive Aldehydes Alters the Antioxidant Activity / Ryoji Nagai -- A Novel Mechanism of Mental Illness: Carbonyl Stress Induced Schizophrenia: A Glyoxalase I Deficit Pedigree with Psychosis / Toshio Miyata -- Glyceraldehyde-derived Advanced Glycation End Products Decrease White Adipose Tissue Weight and Downregulate Leptin, Adiponectin, and Macrophage Marker / Fumitaka Hayase -- Methylglyoxal Modification of Heat-shock Protein 27 in Colon Mucosa of Human Ulcerative Colitis / Toshikazu Yoshikawa -- Extracellular Matrix Glycation and Pathogenesis of Diabetic Complications / Billy G. Hudson -- Structural Analysis of a Skin Collagen-linked Fluorophore that increases in Diabetes and End-stage Renal Disease / Vincent Monnier -- Advanced Glycatino End-products: Biomarkers for Age-related Macular Degeneration / John W. Crabb -- Metal Catalyzed Lens Crystallin Oxidation During Aging and in Diabetes: the Role of Glutathione / Vincent M. Monnier -- Impaired Oxygen Metabolism in Diabetic Nephropathy: Advanced Glycation, Hypoxia, and Oxidative Stress / Masashi Okamura -- Role of Carbonyl/Oxidative Stress on the Pathogenesis of Chronic Kidney Disease and the Metabolic Syndrome / Sadayoshi Inagi -- Role of the Glyoxalase System in Renal Senescence / Reiko Inagi -- Serum Low Molecular Weight Fluorescent AGEs are Higher in Neonates than in Adults: Role of Kidney Metabolism / Masahide Numaguchi -- The Renin-Angiotensin System and Advanced Glycation End-products in Diabetic Nephropathy. How Important are these Pathways as Therapeutic Targets? / Josephine M. Forbes -- Attenuation of Diabetes-associated Atherosclerosis with LR-90, a Novel Inhibitor of Age Formation / Karin Jandeliet Dahm -- Ne-Carboxymethyllysine: Its Origin in Selected Foods and its Urinary and Faecal Excretion in Healthy Humans / Cristina Delgado-Andrade -- Oxidative Stress and the Maillard Reaction in Food / Monika Pischetsrieder -- Dicarbonyls in Cola Drinks Sweetened with Sucrose or High Fructose Corn Syrup / Naila Rabbani -- Formation of Mutagens/Carcinogens Under Physiological Conditions and the Inhibitory Effects of Daily Foods on their Formation and the Induction of Genotoxicity / Shuichi Masuda -- Antitumor Effects of the Early Maillard Reaction Products / Thomas P. Mawhinney -- AGEs Fluorescence of Plasma, Urine and Skin Reflects Dietary Exposure to Maillard Products in Formula-fed Infants / Ines Birlouez-Aragon -- Novel Maillard Pigments Formed from Furfural and Xylose with Lysine Under Weakly Acidic Conditions / Masatsune Murata -- Urinary Excretion of Non-Toxic and Toxic Carbonyls as Urea Derivatives / Toshio Miyata -- Isolation of Glucose Ureide, Urea Derivative of Glucose, in Human Urine / Atsusi Sasaki -- Some Natural Products Extracts Inhibit the Formation of Nw-(Carboxymetyl)arginine / Ryoji Nagai -- Screening of AGE Inhibitors by Antibody Library / Yukio Fujiwarab -- Taste Modulating Maillard Reaction Products of Creatinine / Thomas Hofmann -- Improved Extraction of Acrylamide and its Quantification in Pork Sausages / Linda Farmer -- Chemistry of Pigments as Intermediate of Melanoidins / Hirohito Watanabe.