Functional Phytochemicals in Disease Treatment and Management: Phytochemicals as Therapeutic Agents
Editors
Sadia Hassan, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Muhammad Adil Farooq and Uchenna Estella Odoh
Status: Approved & Ongoing
To contribute a chapter to this book, please be in contact with Dr. Sadia Hassan through sadiahassan88@gmail.com
Book Description
This book entitled ‘‘Functional Phytochemicals in Disease Treatment and Management’’ provides a comprehensive overview of the role of plant-based functional ingredients in the maintenance of human health along with the treatment of metabolic disorders. This book will cover a wide spectrum of degenerative diseases, their mechanism, and the application of phytochemicals in disease prevention. Worldwide phytochemicals are known for their therapeutic potential. Naturally occurring these functional compounds are ubiquitous in the leaves, stems, flowers, and fruits of plants, and are essential owing to their multiple biological activities like antioxidant, anticarcinogenic antiallergenic, anti-inflammatory activities, etc. Increasing knowledge of the various protective effects of phytochemicals has sparked interest in further understanding their role in human health. This book is in response to the need for a more current and global scope of phytochemicals. The chapters are drawn systematically and incorporated sequentially to facilitate proper understanding. The text provides information about major sources of these phytochemicals, classification, mechanism of action, and their medicinal properties. The text also covers the role of these functional ingredients in the development of nao-drugs, nutraceutical products, and applications in food fortification. Subsequent chapters emphasized the novel bioactive compounds as anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-obesity, anti-oxidant, anti-allergic, and anti-inflammatory agents. The book has been planned to meet the needs of researchers, health professionals, government regulatory agencies, and industries. This book will serve as a standard reference book in this important and fast-growing area of phytochemicals, human nutrition, and health. This book will be helpful to undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers, teachers, nutritionists, food chemists, food scientists, plant biochemists, and researchers in the domain of nutraceuticals, functional foods, food chemistry, phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and drug development.
Key Features
1. Presents dietary phytochemicals and their therapeutic effects on human health.
2. Describes major metabolic disorders of worldwide importance along with their mechanisms and association with nutrition.
3. Focuses on the action mechanism of phytochemicals in the management of degenerative diseases.
Table of Contents
1. Functional phytochemicals: an overview
2. Natural products as a source of phytochemicals
3. Phytochemistry of medicinal plants and their efficacy
4. Nutraceutical products with plant bioactive compounds
5. Metabolism and bioavailability of phytochemicals
6. Extraction of phytochemicals
7. Development of phytochemical based nano-drug delivery systems
8. Phytochemicals in the food fortification
9. Therapeutic potential of herbs in the disease management
10. Therapeutic potential of fruits in the disease management
11. Therapeutic potential of vegetables in the disease management
12. In-vitro and in-vivo antioxidant potential of phytochemicals
13. The beneficial role of phytochemicals on oxidative stress
14. Role of phytochemicals in combating skin diseases
15. Phytochemicals as potential anticancer agents
16. Neuroprotective potential of dietary phytochemicals
17. Phytonutrients for the treatment of COVID-19 infection
18. Therapeutic potential of plant bioactive compounds against Alzheimer’s disease
19. Phytochemicals in the management of obesity
20. Management of diabetes with phytochemicals
21. Phytochemicals in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases
22. Phytonutrients against fatty liver disease
23. Antiallergic and anti-inflammatory activities of plants’ functional components