Plant Science & Botany

Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork

The Role of Phytoconstitutents in Health Care
Biocompounds in Medicinal Plants

Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD
Ramasamy Harikrishnan, PhD

The Role of Phytoconstitutents in Health Care

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Pub Date: February 2020
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Hard ISBN: 9781771888202
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-512-4
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E-Book ISBN: 9780429284267
Pages: 334 w/index
Binding Type: hardback/paperback/ebook
Series: Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork
Notes: 10 color illustrations

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This volume provides new insights with scientific evidence on the uses of medicinal plants in the treatment of certain diseases. It reviews various therapies with herbal phytoconstituents for certain types of disorders, modes of action, and pharmacological screening. It focuses on potential benefits of herbal extracts and bioactive compounds for human health care, provides a comparative phytoconstituent analysis of selected medicinal plants using GC-MS/FTIR techniques, and discusses the role of herbal medicines in female genital infections. It goes on to look at the health-boosting properties of cabbage and the functional properties of milk yam (Ipomoea digitata L.).

The information provided in The Role of Phytoconstitutents in Health Care: Biocompounds in Medicinal Plants will be valuable for herbal drug researchers and scientists in the pharmaceutical industries. It will not only provide information on the management and prevention of HIV/AIDS and cancer disorders but will also pave the way for future research.

CONTENTS:
Prefaces

PART I: HERBS AND THEIR EXTRACTS: SCOPE AND ROLE OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN HUMAN HEALTH
1. Potential of Herbal Extracts and Bioactive Compounds for Human Healthcare
Ramasamy Harikrishnan and Chellam Balasundaram

2. Herbal Extracts and Their Bioactivities: Comparative Phytoconstituent Analysis of Selected Medicinal Plants Using GC-MS/FTIR Techniques
C. Stanley Okereke, O. Uche Arunsi, E. Martina Ilondu, and S. Chieme Chukwudoruo

3. The Role of Herbal Medicines in Female Genital Infections
Djadouni Fatima

PART II: FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED PLANTS
4. From Designer Food Formulation to Oxidative Stress Mitigation: Health-Boosting Constituents of Cabbage
Faiza Ashfaq, Masood Sadiq Butt, Ahmad Bilal, Kanza Aziz Awan, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

5. Functional Properties of Milk Yam (Ipomoea digitata L.)
K. M. Vidya, N. S. Sonia, and P. C. Jessykutty

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Senior Acquisitions Editor, Biomedical Engineering and Agricultural Science, Apple Academic Press, Inc.

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico

Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD
McKenzie Fellow, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD, is the McKenzie Fellow at the School of Agriculture and Food in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He was formerly the Alfred Deakin Research Fellow at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetic and Health at Kansas State University, USA. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Dr. Suleria has been awarded an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the Australian Postgraduate Award for his PhD research at the UQ School of Medicine and the Translational Research Institute in collaboration with the Commonwealth and Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia. Before joining the UQ, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Food Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. He also worked as a research associate in the PAK-US Joint Project funded by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, and Department of State, USA, with collaboration of the University of Massachusetts, USA, and the National Institute of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. Dr. Suleria has published more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers in professional journals and has co-edited several books. He is also in collaboration with more than ten universities where he is working as a co-supervisor/special member for PhD and postgraduate students. His major research focus is on food nutrition, particularly in screening of bioactive molecules, including isolation, purification, and characterization using various cutting-edge techniques from different plants, marine, and animal sources; in vitro, in vivo bioactivities; and cell culture and animal modeling.

Ramasamy Harikrishnan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Pachaiyappa’s College for Men (affiliated with the University of Madras), Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India

Ramasamy Harikrishnan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Pachaiyappa’s College for Men (affiliated with the University of Madras), Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He formerly worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Bharath College of Science and Management, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India; as Research Associate at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India; as a postdoctoral fellowship at the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), South Korea; and as a Research Professor at the College of Ocean Science, Jeju National University, South Korea. He has guided MPhil students and PhD research scholars at Bharathidasan University. He has been an invited speaker at the University of South Korea. He has been involved in several projects as co-principal investigator at Jeju National University, South Korea. He has visited several countries for oral presentations, including Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China, and Japan. He also organized several seminars and symposia. Dr. Harikrishnan is a reviewer and member of the editorial boards for 15 international journals, and has attended many workshops and training courses and national and international conferences and symposiums. He prepared the first cDNA library in a marine kelp grouper, Epinephelus bruneus, and identified 2000 mRNA sequences, and some of which have been submitted to National Center for Biotechnology Information.




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