Bioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2025
- Editors: Siva Ramamoorthy, Thomas Efferth
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 1 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 1 6 - 4
Bioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health provides a comprehensive overview of the therapeutic potential of these compounds. Covering the main pigment classes sourced f… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBioprospecting of Natural Pigments in Human Health provides a comprehensive overview of the therapeutic potential of these compounds. Covering the main pigment classes sourced from plants, algae, and microbes, the book is organized around the applications to specific diseases and conditions. With chapters on the anti-cancer, antidiabetic, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging effects, cardioprotective and neuroprotective agents, the book covers the molecular biology principles of action, as well as bioavailability and structure. This is the ideal reference for academic researchers interested in natural products pharmacology. It is also beneficial for the academic and corporate researchers in food sciences and the nutraceutical industries.
- Covers natural pigments and their therapeutic and health benefitting properties
- Organizes the therapeutic potential of natural pigments according to diseases and conditions
- Explains the mechanisms of action of pigments on targeted therapeutic pathways
Graduate students enrolled in natural product research and related courses, Reference material for the corporate researchers working in the domain of natural product therapeutics
I: Therapeutic potential of phytopigments
2. Natural pigments as protective agent for respiratory disorders: special reference to COVID-19
3. Tumor preventive properties of phytopigments against breast cancer
4. Anti-aging potential of phytopigments: Perspectives and challenges
5. Role of dietary pigments in chemoprevention and chemotherapy: An overview
II: Algal pigments and Pharmaceutical applications
6. Recent developments in pharmaceutical applications of microalgal pigments
7. Microalgal pigments against cancer: Potentials and applications
8. Fucoxanthin: A promising compound for inflammation-related diseases
9. Phycobiliproteins-Algae derived pigments: Advances in research on the therapeutic potential
III: Microbial pigments: Therapeutic potential and applications
10. Microbial pigments and therapeutic potential: current status and opportunities
11. Endophytes as emerging sources of pigments: Therapeutic potential and applications
IV: Natural pigments: from laboratories to hospital benches
12. Pigments: antimicrobial compounds with market potential
13. Promising nanotechnological pharmaceutical applications with pigments
14. Artificial intelligence in bioprospecting of natural pigments for human health
15. Regulating the Bioprospecting of natural pigments: Concerns with Business Human Rights
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443240171
- eBook ISBN: 9780443240164
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Siva Ramamoorthy
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Thomas Efferth
Thomas Efferth is the chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He is a biologist by training (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany). Doctoral thesis: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany (1990). He obtained 9 national and international awards. He is honorary professor at several
international universities. In 2022, he was visiting professor (“professional visitor”) at the McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Thomas is ordinary member of the Academia Europaea (London). He has 850+ PubMed-listed high impact papers with an h-index of 116 and more than 69,000 citations.