Phytochemicals for Health

Locatelli, Marcello (EDT)/ Tomczyk, Michał (EDT)/ Dugo, Laura (EDT)

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 476 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780443153662
• DDC分類 572.2

Full Description

Phytochemicals for Health presents the state of the art in the field of Phytochemicals. It highlights how, following the interactions of plants and the environment, an analytical approach for standardization and quality control is of fundamental importance to product quality control.

Parts I and II cover the main problems relatied to natural products (plants, extraction, quantitative analysis, relationship with the surrounding environment). Part III presents the main classes of organic compounds identified and reported, and Part IV includes inorganic compounds. It also includes a chapter covering all the natural compounds that have become Active Principle Ingredients (API), highlighting next challenges.

Phytochemicals for Health is a valuable tool for senior scientists working in natural products field interested in investigating the correlation between chemical profile and biological activity in order to obtain a product that is safe for human health.

Contents

PART 1: fundamentals in phytochemistry
1. Introduction
2. Biosynthesis of primary and secondary metabolites
3. Role of active ingredients in human health

PART 2: chemical and biological aspects
4. From Plants to extracts
5. From extracts to quantitative analyses
6. From quantitative analyses to biological activities
7. Role of the plant-environment interaction
8. New active principle ingredient (API)

PART 3: organic phytochemicals state of the art
9. Alkaloids
10. Terpenoids
11. Phenolic compounds
12. Essential metals
13. Non-essential metals

PART 4: inorganic compounds state of the art
14. Essential metals
15. Non-essential metals