Nutrition, Dietetics & Health

AAP Advances in Nutraceuticals

Plant Metabolites and Vegetables as Nutraceuticals
Editors: Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm
Bui Thanh Tung, PhD
Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech
Eknath D. Ahire, MSPharm

Plant Metabolites and Vegetables as Nutraceuticals

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: August 2024
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774915448
E-Book ISBN: 9781032680125
Pages: 458pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Series: AAP Advances in Nutraceuticals
Notes: 7 color, 23 b/w illustrations

The use of nutraceuticals in nutritional supplements sold over the counter without prescriptions has been growing in recent years. This volume explores vegetables and plant metabolites as nutraceuticals that provide nutritional importance in the prevention and/or treatment of human diseases and for maintaining the body’s energy balance.

Divided into three sections, the book looks at the significant potential of nutraceuticals and health promotion of plant metabolites and vegetables, the nutraceutical benefits of bioactives and flavonoids, and the benefits of plant metabolites and vegetables in prevention and treatment of diseases.

Key features:

  • Considers various applications and implications of plant metabolites and vegetables as nutraceuticals in healthcare
  • Discusses the mechanisms of plant metabolites and vegetables to support the prevention and treatment of various diseases, such as cancer, gout, heart disease, liver disease, Parkinson’s disease and other brain diseases, and gastrointestinal disease
  • Explores the role of phytochemicals bioactive compounds as nutraceuticals in healthcare
  • Looks at the relationship between eating fruits and vegetables and the incidence of serious and chronic diseases
With contributions from renowned scientists and researchers around the globe, the volume provides up-to-date information that offers insights on the value of plant metabolites and vegetables as nutraceuticals that will be of interest to academicians, scientists, researchers, and industry professionals worldwide.

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: NUTRACEUTICAL POTENTIAL AND HEALTH PROMOTION OF PLANT METABOLITES AND VEGETABLES
1. Potentials of Vegetables and Plant Metabolites in Healthcare
Munish Sharma, Munish Sharma, Navneet Bithel, Kamal Kant Sharma, and Munit Sharma

2. Nutraceutical Potential of Selected Vegetables
Eramma N., Sadashiv S. O., Raghu Ningegowda, Renuka Jyothi S., and Sharangouda J. Patil

PART II: NUTRACEUTICAL BENEFITS OF BIOACTIVE AND FLAVONOIDS
3. Phytochemicals Present in Vegetables for Health Promotion

Kamal Kant Sharma, Munit Sharma, Deepa Devi, Aparajita Gupta, and Shivam Singh

4. Flavonoids in Vegetables as Nutraceuticals
Mayur S. Bidkar, Akshay U. Ghorpade, Dinesh B. Chaudhari, Swati G. Talele, and Anil G. Jadhav

5. Nutraceutical Bioactive Compounds in Fruits and Vegetables
Ankur Srivastav, Ajay Kumar Shukla, Manish Kumar, Shailendra Kumar, and Rahul Kumar Mishra

PART III: PLANT METABOLITES AND VEGETABLES IN PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES
6. Effect of Plant- and Vegetable-Based Secondary Metabolites on Cancer Treatment

Ankit Awasthi and Yashi Srivastava

7. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Gout Prevention and Treatment
Bui Thanh Tung, Nguyen Nhu Son, Nguyen Bao Kim, and Raj K. Keservani

8. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment
Ashwini V. Shelke, Swati Talele, Tushar Lokhande, and Anil Jadhav

9. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Liver Disease Prevention and Treatment
Darcia D’mello, Sadashiv S. O., Renuka Jyothi S., and Sharangouda J. Patil

10. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Brain Disease Treatment and Prevention
Madhuri Verma

11. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Gastrointestinal Disease Prevention and Treatment
Vidisha Mishra

12. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment
Amruta Balekundri, Eknath D. Ahire, and Raj K. Keservani

13. Plant Metabolites and Vegetables for Kidney Disease Prevention and Treatment
Amruta Balekundri, Shalni Satya, Eknath D. Ahire, and Raj K. Keservani

14. Delaying the Onset of Parkinson’s Disease through Phytotherapy
Devangna Paul and Myrene Roselyn D’souza


Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm
Associate Professor, Faculty of B. Pharmacy, CSM Group of Institution, Prayagraj, India

Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm, is Associate Professor, Faculty of B. Pharmacy, CSM Group of Institutions, Allahabad, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has published many peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, over 40 book chapters, several co-authored books, and nearly 30 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Mr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. Mr. Keservani is a life member of Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems, transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.

Bui Thanh Tung, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Bui Thanh Tung, PhD, is affiliated with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. His main research focuses on medicinal plants for the treatment of various diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer. His special interest is in the development of new drugs from Vietnamese natural resources. He writes and presents widely on issues of natural products, bioactive compounds, and their pharmacological activities. Dr. Tung received his PhD in Pharmacology from the Seville University, Spain.

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India. He has more than 11 years of research and nine years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by The National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised one PhD and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students for their research work. Dr. Kesharwani has authored over 55 peer-reviewed articles, 35 book chapters, and 27 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented papers at various national and international conferences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and worked at NIT Warangal for two semesters. He has been a recipient of a Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences.

Eknath D. Ahire, MSPharm
Assistant Professor, Department of Phamaceutics, METs, Institute of Pharmacy, Bhujbal Knowledge City, Adgaon, Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Eknath D. Ahire, MS Pharm, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at MET’s, Institute of Pharmacy (affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University), Bhujbal Knowledge City, Adgoan, Nashik, Pune, India. Currently, he is also a PhD scholar with Savitribai Phule, Pune University, Maharashtra, India. He is also working for QCS Labs LLP, Mumbai, as an inspector for Nigeria’s regulatory market pre-shipment inspection under the Earn and Learn scheme. He has a total of five years of experience, working as Formulation Scientist II at Torrent Research Center, Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India, as well as five years of academic experience. He is working as a reviewer for several reputed international journals. He is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI). He has more than 60 publications to date that include research papers, reviews and book chapters in textbooks and edited books. He has participated in and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has worked on nanotechnology-based novel drug delivery systems, nutraceuticals, and immunology. He earned his BPharm degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, his master’s degree (MS Pharm) in Pharmaceutics from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad (NIPER-A). He was awarded with NFST (RGNF) PhD Research Scholar fellowship by the Government of India.




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