At The Crossroads Between Nutrition And Pharmacology

Author : Cristina Otero
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781681084299

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At the Crossroads Between Nutrition and Pharmacology by Cristina Otero Pdf

Functional foods (foods with known bioactive properties) have shown potential for preventive and therapeutic treatments. However, this potential must be safely determined before they enter the commercial market. At the same time, nutrition research is transforming into a data driven field with reference to the identification and development of functional food products due to the large number of variables affecting food biochemistry in the human body. This volume presents reviews of recent advances in food chemistry, food technology and nutraceutical research (for diet therapy and cosmetics). Chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of topics: - drug discovery and development in the modern nutraceutical industry, - recent developments in the extraction, identification and quantification of bioactive peptides in foods, - concepts of bioavailability, bioaccessibility, bioactivity, bioefficiency and bioconversion of bioactive foods, - synthetic routes for obtaining bioactive compounds, - the role of nutrigenomics to identify key cellular functions by specific genetic and epigenetic interactions with a nutrient, - anti-cancer properties of important bioactive components of medicinal plants, - the effect of a diet based on different bioactive foods on prevention and treatment of diabetes, - antioxidant effects on cardiovascular disease, - beneficial effects of bioactive foods on metabolic syndrome, - the potential of tauroursodeoxycholic acid on prevention and recovery of neurodegenerative diseases, - the effects of natural phytochemicals in prostate cancer, - the effects of methylxanthines (caffeine and others), and culinary methods on physiological and toxicological effects of the bioactive food constituents. The volume is an ideal reference for pharmacy students, nutritionists, healthcare providers and nutraceutical R&D specialists interested in functional foods. [Series Intro] Frontiers in Bioactive Compounds brings edited reviews on the analysis and characterization of natural compounds of medicinal interest. Each volume covers useful information on a variety of natural sources as well as analytical techniques. This series is essential reading for analytical and medicinal chemists as well as professionals involved in natural and pharmaceutical product research and development.

Author : M. Victorina Aguilar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681084309

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Frontiers in Bioactive Compounds by M. Victorina Aguilar Pdf

"This volume presents different aspects related to bioactive compounds, starting with their natural state in raw sources, physicochemical characterization and employment in pharmacy and medicine. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part descr"

Author : Andres R Alcantara
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039217083

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Biocatalysis and Pharmaceuticals: A Smart Tool for Sustainable Development by Andres R Alcantara Pdf

Biocatalysis, that is, the use of biological catalysts (enzymes, cells, etc.) for the preparation of highly valuable compounds is undergoing a great development, being considered an extremely sustainable approach to undertaking environmental demands. In this scenario, this book illustrates the versatility of applied biocatalysis for the preparation of drugs and other bioactive compounds through the presentation of different research articles and reviews, in which several authors describe the most recent developments in this appealing scientific area. By reading the excellent contributions gathered in this book, it is possible to have an updated idea about new advances and possibilities for a new exciting future.

Author : Ajay Kumar,Pardeep Singh,Suruchi Singh,Bhupinder Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811965029

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Wild Food Plants for Zero Hunger and Resilient Agriculture by Ajay Kumar,Pardeep Singh,Suruchi Singh,Bhupinder Singh Pdf

The edited volume brings out a comprehensive collection of information relevant to wild food plants, their importance for global sustainable food security, future-readiness, and resilient agriculture. The book's primary focus is to cover topics on the diversity of wild food plants across the globe, their nutraceutical importance, production-consumption trends, integration into the current food menu, and marketing and livelihood opportunities to the indigenous people. Sustainable development goals 1, 2, and 3 are significant for a poverty-free, hunger-free world and ensure good health and wellbeing of the people, respectively. The three goals are important and interlinked as achieving zero poverty will help reduce hunger among the people. Availability of nutritional and balanced food ensures good health. Wild food plants are an essential part of a nourishing and healthy diet for indigenous communities. They are globally collected from natural habitats or cultivated at more minor scales. Although consumed locally, they are an essential part of the diets of tribal and indigenous communities worldwide and hold immense potential to alleviate global hunger. Considering their importance for global sustainable food security, it is essential to clearly understand the future role of wild food plants for future readiness and resilient agriculture. Therefore, this book provides a piece of important information on these aspects. The book is a valuable resource for the audience ranging from undergraduate science students to the NGOs and institutions involved in poverty alleviation programs, policymakers, dieticians, horticulturists, plant breeders, farmers, health experts, and food enthusiasts.

Author : Inamuddin,Abdullah M. Asiri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030449957

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Nanotechnology-Based Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids by Inamuddin,Abdullah M. Asiri Pdf

Numerous solvents used in chemical processes have poisonous and unsafe properties that pose significant ecological concerns ranging from atmospheric emissions to the contamination of water effluents. To combat these ecological threats, over the course of the past two decades, the field of green chemistry has grown to develop more natural reaction processes and techniques involving the use of nonconventional solvents to diminish waste solvent production and thus decrease negative impact on the environment. Ionic liquids in particular are more environmentally friendly substitutes to conventional solvents, and as such, have seen more widespread use in the past decade. They have been used in such processes as extraction, separation, purification of organic, inorganic, and bioinorganic compounds, reaction media in biochemical and chemical catalysis, green organic and drug synthesis, among other industrial applications. Thus, in proving themselves a suitable greener media for economic viability in chemical processes, ionic liquids are leading to more sustainable development. This edition explores the application of ionic liquids as a green solvent. It contains a state-of-the-art overview on ionic liquids as green solvents for chemical processes and techniques, as well as some of their useful industrial applications.

Author : Alexandru Grumezescu,Alina-Maria Holban
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128172636

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Functional and Medicinal Beverages by Alexandru Grumezescu,Alina-Maria Holban Pdf

Functional and Medicinal Beverages, Volume Eleven, in the Science of Beverages series, discusses one of the fastest growing sectors in the food industry. As the need for research and development increases based on consumer demand, the information in this volume is essential. This reference includes the latest research trends, nutritive and medicinal ingredients, and analytical techniques to identify health beneficial elements. The contents of the book will bring readers up-to-date on the field, thus making it useful for researchers and graduate students in various fields across the food sciences and technology. Highlights new concepts, innovative technologies and current concerns in the functional beverages field Covers detailed information on the engineering and processing of novel ingredients for health benefits Includes common and alternative ingredients for juices, vegetable blends, milk-based drinks, and probiotic and prebiotic based alternative beverages

Author : Aron K. Barbey,Elizabeth J. Johnson,Margaret Joy Dauncey
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889457229

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Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience Research at the Crossroads of Nutrition, Psychology, and Neuroscience by Aron K. Barbey,Elizabeth J. Johnson,Margaret Joy Dauncey Pdf

Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to understand nutrition’s impact on human cognition and brain health across the life span. Research in this burgeoning field demonstrates that many aspects of nutrition – from entire diets to specific nutrients – affect brain structure and function, and therefore have profound implications for understanding the nature of psychological health, aging, and disease. The aim of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience is to examine recent empirical and theoretical contributions from Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience, with an emphasis on the following primary areas of inquiry. Nutrition and Brain Health An enduring aim of research in the nutritional sciences is to discover specific nutrients and dietary patterns that enhance cognitive function and brain health in the elderly. Although an abundance of evidence supports a single or a few nutrients for the promotion of cognitive performance and brain health, clinical trials using nutritional supplementation have been predominately unsuccessful. Further research is therefore needed to better characterize the contributions of specific nutrients and nutrient combinations to cognitive performance and brain health. Moderators of Nutrition’s Impact on the Brain A second major area of research in Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience investigates the mechanisms that underlie the effects of nutrition on brain health at the cellular, molecular, and circuit levels. Accumulating evidence indicates that the effects of nutrition on brain health are complex and multifactorial, reflecting the influence of particular nutrient combinations on specific brain networks and taking into account several moderating factors. Considerably more research is needed to elucidate the complex interactions between nutrition and known moderating variables – including age, nutritional status, genes, environment, and lifestyle – in determining nutrition’s impact on cognitive function and brain health. Personalized Nutrition Research at the frontiers of Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience establishes a personalized approach to nutritional intervention that takes into account individual variability in nutritional status, brain health, genes, environment, and lifestyle. The goal of personalized nutrition is to enhance the precision of nutritional intervention and to enable novel applications to psychological health, aging, and disease.

Author : Gert Folkerts,Johan Garssen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319061511

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Pharma-Nutrition by Gert Folkerts,Johan Garssen Pdf

Natural products and functional/medical foods are now widely acknowledged as having an effect on the microbiome of the intestine, which in turn influences the outcome of certain disease. This book reviews the impact and effects of natural products and functional/medical foods (nutritional programming) on disease management, specifically focusing on diseases related to 1) Inflammation and Immunity, 2) Cancer, COPD and Cachexia, 3) Allergy and 4) Brain Neuro/Immune. Hippocrates said "let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine". While most of us are familiar with Hippocrates famous words, we admit that in recent times, the disciplines of pharma and nutrition have evolved separately. Today, with the ever growing burden of diseases in modern society, we see a convergence of the two in relation to specific disease prevention and treatment. This re-discovered common ground between the complementary values of pharma and nutrition can be conceptualized in the term pharma-nutrition. Various chapters in the book review the aspects of molecular characteristics of food ingredients towards clinical effectiveness and relevance.

Author : Carol Coricelli, Luisa Torri
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832522905

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Food cognition: The crossroads of psychology, neuroscience and nutrition by Carol Coricelli, Luisa Torri Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128231845

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The Latest Research and Development of Minerals in Human Nutrition by Anonim Pdf

The Latest Research and Development of Minerals in Human Nutrition, Volume 96 in the Advances in Food and Nutrition Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Food and Nutrition Research series Updated release includes the Latest Research and Development of Minerals in Human Nutrition

Author : Julie Laplante
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782385554

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Healing Roots by Julie Laplante Pdf

Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This “natural” remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

Author : Sergej M. Ostojic
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323984522

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Molecular Nutrition and Mitochondria by Sergej M. Ostojic Pdf

Molecular Nutrition and Mitochondria: Metabolic Deficits, Whole-Diet Interventions, and Targeted Nutraceuticals provides a comprehensive examination of molecular aspects of mitochondrial nutrition and how dietary compounds might impact the treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction. Beginning with an overview of the fundamentals of mitochondria physiology and the methods used to evaluate mitochondrial imbalance in clinical practice, the book goes on to outline nutritional shortfalls in mitochondrial dysfunction and highlights the complex intra-organelle milieu affecting interactions between food compounds and mitochondrial co-factors, metabolites, and signaling molecules. Further sections explore the impact of essential nutrients, such as vitamin E, fatty acids, and complex lipids, on mitochondrial biogenesis, as well as non-essential bioactive compounds originating from food that can be evaluated for their mitochondria-modulating potential, such as mitochondria-targeted small molecule antioxidants, plant-based pigments and organic compounds, nucleotides, non-proteogenic amino acids and derivatives, and mitochondria-specific enzyme mimetics from food. Molecular Nutrition and Mitochondria covers the key impacts of nutrition on mitochondria, and is the ideal reference for researchers, students and clinicians looking to develop an in-depth understanding of how dietary compounds can prevent and treat disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. Describes the fundamentals of mitochondria physiology and considers the methods used to evaluate mitochondrial imbalance in clinical practice Provides broad biochemical and metabolic background on nutritional deficits found in mitochondrial dysfunction Explores the prevention and treatment of various inherited and acquired disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction Discusses the link between the dosage for each nutrient (nutritional vs. pharmacological) and the clinical effect Features a dedicated section on whole-diet interventions and mitochondrial function

Author : F.V. Zohoori,R.M. Duckworth
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318065176

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The Impact of Nutrition and Diet on Oral Health by F.V. Zohoori,R.M. Duckworth Pdf

Most oral diseases are preventable, yet they remain the most globally common noncommunicable disorders, affecting people throughout their lifetime. Lifestyle, including diet and food choice, is central to the occurrence of oral disease. Nutrition and diet can impact the development and status of the oral cavity as well as the progression of illness. Also, poor oral health can influence the ability to eat and, consequently, to maintain an adequate diet and nutrient balance. This book, consisting of 14 chapters, provides current information on the impact of nutrients (macro- and micro-elements and vitamins) and diet on oral health and vice versa (i.e., the impact of oral health on diet/nutrition). It also reviews possible oral health effects of probiotics as well as relationships between genotype and diet, which are important for determining oral disease risk. This book is a helpful resource for under- and postgraduate students. It will also be useful to dentists and nutritionists/dietitians as they integrate nutrition education into medical practice.

Author : Susan A. Masino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780197501207

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Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies by Susan A. Masino Pdf

"Ketogenic diets have been treating epilepsy for a century. Finally - no need to say "nearly" 100 years since it was published in 1921! To many it feels like a long time, yet we are still at the beginning. It has taken many decades to begin to appreciate the potential of ketogenic diet and metabolic therapies in health and disease. Thankfully, good ideas persist. They can and must be revisited and retested"--

Author : James R. Hebert,Lorne J Hofseth
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780128221655

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Diet, Inflammation, and Health by James R. Hebert,Lorne J Hofseth Pdf

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. The book also describes the pathophysiology of inflammation and its effects on insulin insensitivity and blunted immune response to carcinogenesis. Researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine, as well as students studying related fields will benefit from this reference and its recommendations on areas where future research is needed. Addresses the role of acute inflammatory responses in achieving and maintaining good health Covers the association of chronic system inflammation with various conditions and diseases Describes the effect of inflammation on mechanisms ranging from insulin insensitivity and immune response to carcinogenesis