Phytochemicals in Health and Disease

Yongping Bao and Roger Fenwick

Phytochemicals in Health and Disease discusses the potential of phytochemicals to prevent at least three of the leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.
Responding to the increasing number of scientific reports emphasizing the importance of phytochemicals in disease prevention, this reference describes the function, metabolism and biological activities of selected phytochemicals and documents their role in the modulation of enzyme activity, adduct formation, and gene expression.

Partial Contents:

• Nutritional Genomics
• Methods to Study Bioavailability of Phytochemicals
• Characterization of Polyphenol Metabolites
• Microarray Profiling of Gene Expression Patterns of Genistein in Tumor Cells
• Gene Regulatory Activity of Ginkgo Biloba L
• Cancer Chemoprevention with Sulforaphane, a Dietary Isothiocyanate
• Phytochemicals Protect Against Heterocyclic Amine-Induced DNA Adduct Formation
• Organosulfur-Garlic Compounds and Cancer Prevention
• Polymethylated Flavonoids: Cancer Preventive and Therapeutic Potentials Derived from Anti-inflammatory- and Drug-Metabolism Modifying Properties
• Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Chemoprevention by Tea and Tea Polyphenols
• Dietary Flavonoids and Human Cataract Prevention
• Phytochemicals and the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Potential Roles for Selected Fruits, Herbs, and Spices
• Bioactives in rice bran and rice bran oil
• Beneficial Effects of Resveratrol

Marcel Dekker 2004
Euro 195,00