Herbs : challenges in chemistry and biology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Meeting
Other Authors: Wang, Mingfu, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society : Distributed by Oxford University Press, ©2006.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 925.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Botanical quality initiatives at the office of dietary supplements, National institutes of health
  • 2. Current trends and future prospects of traditional Chinese medicines in the 21st century
  • 3. Bioactive polyphenols from foods and dietary supplements : challenges and opportunities
  • 4. Instrumental analysis of popular botanical products in the U.S. market
  • 5. Challenges in assessing bioactive botanical ingredients in functional beverages
  • 6. Bioactive natural products from Chinese tropical marine plants and invertebrates
  • 7. Curcumin : potential health benefits, molecular mechanism of action, and its anticancer properties in vitro and in vivo
  • 8. Need for analytical methods and fingerprinting : total quality control of phytomedicine Echinacea
  • 9. Bioassay-guided isolation, identification, and quantification of the estrogen-like constituent from PC SPES
  • 10. Intraspecific variation in quality control parameters, polyphenol profile, and antioxidant activity in wild populations of Lippia multiflora from Ghana
  • 11. Protein tyrosine phosphatases 1B inhibitors from traditional Chinese medicine
  • 12. Thioglucosidase-catalyzed hydrolysis of the major glucosinolate of Maca (Lepidium meyenii) to benzyl isothiocyanate : mini-review and simple quantitativeHPLC method
  • 13. Studies on chemical constituents of jiaogulan (gynostemma pentaphyllum)
  • 14. Chemical components of noni (morinda citrifolia L.) root
  • 15. Characterization of chemical components of Ixeris denticulata
  • 16. Bioavailability, metabolism, and pharmacokinetics of glycosides in Chinese herbs
  • 17. Moringa, a novel plant rich in antioxidants, bioavailable iron, and nutrients
  • 18. Stability and transformation of bioactive polyphenolic components of herbs in physiological pH
  • 19. Bioavailability and synergistic effects of tea catechins as antioxidants in the human diet
  • 20. Targeting inflammation using Asian herbs
  • 21. Induction of apoptosis by Ligusticum chuanxiong in HSC-T6 stellate cells
  • 22. Effect of combined use of isothiocyanate and black tea extract on dental caries
  • 23. Cytotoxic properties of leaf essential oil and components from indigenous cinnamon (cinnamomum osmophloeum Kaneh)
  • 24. Effect of black tea theaflavins on 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-induced inflammation : expression of proinflammatory cytokines and arachidonic acid metabolism in mouse ear and colon carcinogenesis in min (apc+/- ) mice
  • 25. Shea butter : chemistry, quality, and new market potentials.