LIMITED OFFER
Save 50% on book bundles
Immediately download your ebook while waiting for your print delivery. No promo code needed.
Oncological Functional Nutrition
Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
- 1st Edition - August 20, 2021
- Editors: Maira Rubi Segura Campos, Armando Manuel Martin Ortega
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 8 2 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 8 2 9 - 2
Oncological Functional Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants presents the anticancer activities, metabolism, mechanism of action, doses, and sources of various phytoche… Read more
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteOncological Functional Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants presents the anticancer activities, metabolism, mechanism of action, doses, and sources of various phytochemicals and medicinal plants.
Broken into five parts, this book addresses cancer epidemiology, molecular and therapeutic bases of cancer, macro and micronutrients in cancer prevention and treatment, phytochemicals in the cancer treatment, and medical plants as potential functional foods or resources for the obtention of metabolites with anticancer activity.
Written for nutritionists, food scientists, health professionals, oncologists, endocrinologists, natural product chemists, ethnobotanists, chemists, pharmacists, biochemists, and students studying relating fields, Oncological Functional Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants will be a useful reference for those interested in learning more about functional nutrition and cancer.
- Discusses functional nutrition as alternative therapy
- Provides recommendations and intervention strategies related to the consumption of phytochemicals, food, and medicinal plants
- Addresses cancer epidemiology, the molecular and therapeutic bases of cancer, phytochemicals in the cancer treatment, and medical plants
Nutritionists, food scientists, health professionals, oncologists, endocrinologists, natural product chemists, ethnobotanists, chemists, pharmacists, biochemists, and students studying relating fields.
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 20, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128198285
- eBook ISBN: 9780128198292
MC
Maira Rubi Segura Campos
Maira Rubi Segura Campos is the lead research professor at the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering and the coordinator of the Institutional Postgraduate in Chemical and Biochemical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico. She has authored 115 articles in national and international journals, 61 book chapters, 12 books, and 41 memoirs. She has also taught more than 170 courses at the pre-and postgraduate level and has actively participated in 170 national and international academic events.
Affiliations and expertise
Food Science Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Mérida, MexicoAO
Armando Manuel Martin Ortega
Armando Manuel Martín Ortega is a nutriologist at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY), Mérida, Mexico. He is research assistant to Dr. Maira Rubi Segura Campos in Faculty of Chemical Engineering at UADY. He has contributed to multiple research projects and has co-authored a variety national and international articles as well as book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Merida, MexicoRead Oncological Functional Nutrition on ScienceDirect