Bioactive Carbohydrate Polymers

Author : Berit S. Paulsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401595728

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Bioactive Carbohydrate Polymers by Berit S. Paulsen Pdf

Bioactive Carbohydrate Polymers is probably the first book dealing with the latest in the field of polysaccharides and related products and their biological activities, especially the immunological effects. The different chapters describe the structure and bioactivity of polysaccharides from plants used in traditional medicine in different parts of the world, especially China, Japan and Europe. The focus of the book is on immunologically active plant and seaweed polysaccharides, pharmacological activities of sulphated polysaccharides of animal and seaweed origin, and on possible activities of polysaccharides in our food. Methods for isolation and characterisation of the polymers with chemical and enzymatic methods is covered, as well as discussions on the different biological test-systems and the information they provide. This book will be useful to scientists and postgraduate students working with polysaccharides and their possible uses, and should be of interest for people working in the areas of chemistry, biology, pharmacy and medicine.

Author : Ryouichi Ito,Youta Matsuo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Carbohydrates
ISBN : 1608763676

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Handbook of Carbohydrate Polymers by Ryouichi Ito,Youta Matsuo Pdf

Carbohydrates play an important role in many biological and biochemical processes, including the fertilisation, cell differentiation and maturation, protein folding and degradation. Carbohydrate polymers covers the study and exploitation of carbohydrate polymers which have current or potential industrial application in areas such as food, textiles, paper, wood, adhesives, biodegradables, biorefining, pharmaceuticals, and oil recovery. This book focuses on recent developments on carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) applications in the biomedical, biological and biotechnological fields. Furthermore, polysaccharides are complex carbohydrates that are made up chains of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. This book reviews the literature on fibres spun from several polysaccharides and fibre spinning techniques, including both conventional fibre spinning methods and electrospinning. Resulting fibre properties and prospective applications are discussed. This book also reviews research on polysaccharide film-formation and characteristics, analysed mechanical and barrier properties of polysaccharide-based films, summarises applications of polysaccharide films in food products and makes conclusions as to the status of polysaccharide films and their future developmental direction. Other chapters in this book examine the pathways leading to the production of bioactive oligosaccharides that have biotechnological applications. The current progress in the development of marine carbohydrates into nutraceuticals and their applications are explored as well.

Author : Shaoping Nie,Steve W. Cui,Mingyong Xie
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128114513

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Bioactive Polysaccharides by Shaoping Nie,Steve W. Cui,Mingyong Xie Pdf

Bioactive Polysaccharides offers a comprehensive review of the structures and bioactivities of bioactive polysaccharides isolated from traditional herbs, fungi, and seaweeds. It describes and discusses specific topics based on the authors’ rich experience, including extraction technologies, practical techniques required for purification and fractionation, strategies and skills for elucidating the fine structures, in-vitro and in-vivo protocols, and methodologies for evaluating the specific bioactivities, including immune-modulating activities, anti-cancer activities, anti-oxidant activities, and others. This unique book also discusses partial structure-functionality (bioactivities) relationships based on conformational studies. This comprehensive work can be used as a handbook to explore potential applications in foods, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceutical areas for commercial interests. Serves as a comprehensive review on extraction technologies, and as a practical guide for the purification and fractionation of bioactive polysaccharides Brings step-by-step strategies for elucidating the fine structures and molecular characterizations of bioactive polysaccharides Includes detailed experimental design and methodologies for investigation bioactivities using both in-vitro and in-vivo protocols Clarifies how to extract, purify, and fractionate bioactive polysaccharides, also exploring health benefits Useful as a guide to explore the commercial potentials of bioactive polysaccharides as pharmaceuticals, medicine, and functional foods

Author : John F. Kennedy,Charles A. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Carbohydrates
ISBN : UCSD:31822001961762

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Bioactive Carbohydrates in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology by John F. Kennedy,Charles A. White Pdf

Author : Milda E. Embuscado
Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781605950389

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Functionalizing Carbohydrates for Food Applications by Milda E. Embuscado Pdf

How to modify and produce customized carbohydrates for foods Applications to flavor and nutrient delivery, texturizing and food quality improvement Details on designing and manufacturing carbohydrate delivery systems This book, written by leading food chemists, systematically explains the chemistry and engineering of new starch-based polymers and carbohydrates and shows how they are used to improve food texture and also to function as carriers for flavors and bioactive compounds. The book contains original investigations of strategies to modify food carbohydrates for refining product formulations and improving processing. Also included are detailed treatments of how such delivery systems are manufactured and tested. Key words: gums, encapsulation, celluloses, starches, polysaccharide, rheology, emulsion technology, bioactive, flavor delivery systems.

Author : Zhenbo Xu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535136491

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Solubility of Polysaccharides by Zhenbo Xu Pdf

Sugars, with a scientific term as saccharides, are involved in various aspects in the lives of human beings, including the sense of taste, energy for daily life, etc. Recent development in polysaccharides, as well as the background knowledge in this field, further deepens insight into their roles as healthy supplements. In this book, the principles on polysaccharides' solubility and structure, methodologies and application of polysaccharides have been reviewed. The chapters in this book include the relationship between structure and solubility of polysaccharide, the experimental and computational researches on polysaccharide solubility and the common polysaccharide, which may further aid scholars and researchers in regard to solubility of polysaccharides, methodologies and modification.

Author : Maya Raman,Padma Ambalam,Mukesh Doble
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788132225867

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Probiotics and Bioactive Carbohydrates in Colon Cancer Management by Maya Raman,Padma Ambalam,Mukesh Doble Pdf

This book describes the dietary habits (such as use of probiotics, synbiotics, prebiotics and dietary fiber) that could modify and reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC). The book will be of practical and scientific use to academicians, research scholars, students, health professionals, nutritionists, etc. and could support the cause of preventing CRC by adopting smarter food habits. CRC is the third leading cause of death, in terms of both incidence and mortality, among men and women. Excess consumption of red and processed meat, roasted coffee, etc. have shown an increase in CRC, indicating that compounds formed in food containing free amino acids and sugars interact at elevated temperatures to form mutagens or carcinogens. Standard treatment options for CRC include invasive surgery and chemotherapy or radiation. Several lifestyle and dietary factors could prevent this ailment. Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics that are found in functional foods, health supplements and nutraceuticals and short chain fatty acids that are formed in the colon as a result of microbial fermentation of undigested bioactive carbohydrates by Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus inhibit colonic epithelial cells and minimize inflammation, thereby exhibiting immunomodulatory effects. This book tries to address the novel unexplored benefits and mechanism of action of these functional foods.

Author : Giuseppe Cirillo,Umile Gianfranco Spizzirri,Francesca Iemma
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119108573

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Functional Polymers in Food Science by Giuseppe Cirillo,Umile Gianfranco Spizzirri,Francesca Iemma Pdf

Polymers are an important part in everyday life; products made from polymers range from sophisticated articles, such as biomaterials, to aerospace materials. One of the reasons for the great popularity exhibited by polymers is their ease of processing. Polymer properties can be tailored to meet specific needs by varying the “atomic composition” of the repeat structure, by varying molecular weight and by the incorporation (via covalent and non-covalent interactions) of an enormous range of compounds to impart specific activities. In food science, the use of polymeric materials is widely explored, from both an engineering and a nutraceutical point of view. Regarding the engineering application, researchers have discovered the most suitable materials for intelligent packaging which preserves the food quality and prolongs the shelf-life of the products. Furthermore, in agriculture, specific functionalized polymers are used to increase the efficiency of treatments and reduce the environmental pollution. In the nutraceutical field, because consumers are increasingly conscious of the relationship between diet and health, the consumption of high quality foods has been growing continuously. Different compounds (e.g. high quality proteins, lipids and polysaccharides) are well known to contribute to the enhancement of human health by different mechanisms, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary disease, and hypertension. This second volume focuses on the importance of polymers and functional food and in food processing

Author : Kishan Gopal Ramawat,Jean-Michel Mérillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 3000 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 331903751X

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Polysaccharides by Kishan Gopal Ramawat,Jean-Michel Mérillon Pdf

This reference work presents comprehensive information about one of the most important and most wide-spread classes of (bio)organic compounds: the polysaccharides. The comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date handbook presents the sources, identification, analysis, biosynthesis, biotechnology and applications of important polysaccharides likes starches, cellulose, chitin, gum and microbial polysaccharides. Polysaccharides can exhibit complex structure and various functional activities. These biomacromolecules can therefore serve as raw materials for various different materials, e.g. rayon, cellulose acetate, celluloid, and nitrocellulose; and they find multiple applications, for instance as surgical threads (chitin), as sources of energy, dietary fibers, as blood flow adjuvants, in cosmetics, emulsion stabilizers, film formers, binders, viscosity increasing agents, or skin conditioning agenta, as food additives in gums, chewing gum bases, and as vaccines. Polysaccharides form the basis for useful products, like xanthan gum, dextran, welan gum, gellan gum, diutan gum and pullulan. Some of the polysaccharide-derived products have interesting and useful properties and show biological activities, such as immunomodulatory, antibacterial, anti-mutagenic, radioprotective, anti-oxidative, anti-ulcer, antidepressant, anti-septicaemic or anti-inflammatory activities. All these applications and properties of polysaccharides are for the first time compiled in a thorough and comprehensive overview in the present work. This reference work is organized thematically in four parts: Part I. Polysaccharides: Occurrence, Structure, Distribution and Biotechnology. Part II. Methods. Part III. Bioactive Polysaccharides. Part IV. Polysaccharides as Food. This authoritative reference work is edited by experienced experts, all chapters are written by well recognized international specialists. It is useful to all those working in the field of botany, phytochemistry, pharmacy, drug delivery, molecular biology, metabolomics, forestry, environment, conservation, biotechnology and NGOs working for forest protection.

Author : Mansur Yalpani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Medical
ISBN : WISC:89049460223

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Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate Polymers by Mansur Yalpani Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128003657

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Marine Carbohydrates: Fundamentals and Applications, Part B by Anonim Pdf

Marine Carbohydrates: Fundamentals and Applications brings together the diverse range of research in this important area which leads to clinical and industrialized products. The volume, number 73, focuses on marine carbohydrates in isolation, biological, and biomedical applications and provides the latest trends and developments on marine carbohydrates. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research recognizes the integral relationship between the food and nutritional sciences and brings together outstanding and comprehensive reviews that highlight this relationship. Volumes provide those in academia and industry with the latest information on emerging research in these constantly evolving sciences. Includes the isolation techniques for the exploration of the marine habitat for novel polysaccharides Discusses biological applications such as antioxidant, antiallergic, antidiabetic, antiobesity and antiviral activity of marine carbohydrates Provides an insight into present trends and approaches for marine carbohydrates

Author : Charles G Gebelein,Charles E Carraher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475704062

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Bioactive Polymeric Systems by Charles G Gebelein,Charles E Carraher Pdf

Author : R. Navanietha Krishnaraj,Rajesh K. Sani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119771920

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Biomolecular Engineering Solutions for Renewable Specialty Chemicals by R. Navanietha Krishnaraj,Rajesh K. Sani Pdf

Discover biomolecular engineering technologies for the production of biofuels, pharmaceuticals, organic and amino acids, vitamins, biopolymers, surfactants, detergents, and enzymes In Biomolecular Engineering Solutions for Renewable Specialty Chemicals, distinguished researchers and editors Drs. R. Navanietha Krishnaraj and Rajesh K. Sani deliver a collection of insightful resources on advanced technologies in the synthesis and purification of value-added compounds. Readers will discover new technologies that assist in the commercialization of the production of value-added products. The editors also include resources that offer strategies for overcoming current limitations in biochemical synthesis, including purification. The articles within cover topics like the rewiring of anaerobic microbial processes for methane and hythane production, the extremophilic bioprocessing of wastes to biofuels, reverse methanogenesis of methane to biopolymers and value-added products, and more. The book presents advanced concepts and biomolecular engineering technologies for the production of high-value, low-volume products, like therapeutic molecules, and describes methods for improving microbes and enzymes using protein engineering, metabolic engineering, and systems biology approaches for converting wastes. Readers will also discover: A thorough introduction to engineered microorganisms for the production of biocommodities and microbial production of vanillin from ferulic acid Explorations of antibiotic trends in microbial therapy, including current approaches and future prospects, as well as fermentation strategies in the food and beverage industry Practical discussions of bioactive oligosaccharides, including their production, characterization, and applications In-depth treatments of biopolymers, including a retrospective analysis in the facets of biomedical engineering Perfect for researchers and practicing professionals in the areas of environmental and industrial biotechnology, biomedicine, and the biological sciences, Biomolecular Engineering Solutions for Renewable Specialty Chemicals is also an invaluable resource for students taking courses involving biorefineries, biovalorization, industrial biotechnology, and environmental biotechnology.

Author : Charles E. Carraher Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780824748647

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Seymour/Carraher's Polymer Chemistry by Charles E. Carraher Jr. Pdf

This revolutionary and best-selling resource contains more than 200 pages of additional information and expanded discussions on zeolites, bitumen, conducting polymers, polymerization reactors, dendrites, self-assembling nanomaterials, atomic force microscopy, and polymer processing. This exceptional text offers extensive listings of laboratory exercises and demonstrations, web resources, and new applications for in-depth analysis of synthetic, natural, organometallic, and inorganic polymers. Special sections discuss human genome and protonics, recycling codes and solid waste, optical fibers, self-assembly, combinatorial chemistry, and smart and conductive materials.

Author : Thomas Heinze
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540261125

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Polysaccharides I by Thomas Heinze Pdf