Natural Bioactive Compounds
Technological Advancements
- 502 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
Natural Bioactive Compounds: Technological Advancements deals with the latest breakthroughs in the field of screening, characterization and novel applications of natural bioactive compounds from diverse group of organisms ranging from bacteria, viruses, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bryophytes, higher plants, sponges, corals and fishes. Written by some of the most reputed scientists in the field, this book introduces the reader to strategies and methods in the search for bioactive natural products. It is an essential read for researchers and students interested in bioactive natural products, their biological and pharmacological properties, their possible use as chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agents, and other future potential applications.
- Explores natural sources of bioactive compounds, including cyanobacteria, bacteria, viruses, fungi and higher plants
- Discusses the potential applications of biological products, such as their use in medicine (antibiotics, cancer research, immunology), as food additives, supplements and technological substances
- Analyzes the contributions of emerging or developing technologies for the study of bioactive natural compounds (characterization and purification)
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Secondary metabolites from bacteria and viruses
- Chapter 3. Bioactive compounds of hops resulting from the discarding of the beer industry in the control of pathogenic bacteria
- Chapter 4. Advances in phycobiliproteins research: innovations and commercialization
- Chapter 5. Cyanobacterial photoprotective compounds: characterization and utilization in human welfare
- Chapter 6. Bionanotechnology of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds
- Chapter 7. Bioactive molecules from microalgae and constraints in commercialization
- Chapter 8. Strategies for increased production of lipids and fine chemicals from commercially important microalgae
- Chapter 9. Phycocolloids from macroalgae
- Chapter 10. Potential use of nuisance cyanobacteria as a source of anticancer agents
- Chapter 11. Novel biotechnological substances from bryophytes
- Chapter 12. Biotechnological substances in lichens
- Chapter 13. Biotechnological substances from fungi
- Chapter 14. Novel biotechnological substances in higher plants
- Chapter 15. New perspectives of the Artemisia annua bioactive compounds as an affordable cure in treatment of malaria and cancer
- Chapter 16. Prospects of plant products in the management of insect pests of food grains: current status and future perspectives
- Chapter 17. Bioactive compounds and their future therapeutic applications
- Chapter 18. Marine sponges: source of novel biotechnological substances
- Chapter 19. Bioreactive substances from coral reefs and gorgonians
- Chapter 20. Natural bioactive compounds from fish
- Chapter 21. Advances in extraction technologies: isolation and purification of bioactive compounds from biological materials
- Chapter 22. Impacts of green synthesized silver nanoparticles with natural bioactive compounds on plant’s developmental behavior
- Chapter 23. Bioactive molecules from microalgae
- Index