Role of Medicinal Plants in Autoimmune Diseases
Concepts, Perspectives, and Utilization
- 1st Edition - October 25, 2024
- Editors: Reetika Mahajan, Faheem Shehjar, Sajad Majeed Zargar, Khalid Z. Masoodi, Zahoor A Shah
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 7 7 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 7 7 7 - 3
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Request a sales quoteRole of Medicinal Plants in Autoimmune Diseases: Concepts, Perspectives, and Utilization provides comprehensive knowledge of autoimmune diseases and the role of various medicinal plant products in their treatment. The book discusses the immune system as a group of complex biological structures and processes in an organism which gives protection against a wide range of pathogenic organisms while simultaneously distinguishing these pathogens from the organism’s own healthy cells and tissues, thus maintaining homeostasis in the body.
It has been an age-old practice to use extracts and other parts of various plants in treating many diseases. Several plants contain various pharmacologically active substances which can be used to treat different diseases. Among these medicinal plants, many have shown good immunomodulatory properties and could act as natural immunosuppressant agents in treating autoimmune disorders.
- Elucidates in-depth knowledge on the basics of Immunology, as well as the various autoimmune disorders and the medicinal plant extracts which could be an alternative and safe approach for their treatment and management
- Provides updated content on the role of different medicinal plants in curing autoimmune diseases
- Includes a section at the end of each autoimmune disease, giving a comparison between the treatment with conventional drugs and the medicinal plant products
- Explains the benefits and risks of both treatment regimens in comprehensive, yet easily understandable way
Academicians, Researchers, Post graduate students in immunology, medicine, pharmacology
1. Introduction
2. The Immune System
3. Innate Immunity
4. Acquired Immunity
5. Immunomodulation
6. Different Immune Cells and their role
7. Autoimmune Disorders
8. Organ specific autoimmune disorders
9. Systemic autoimmune disorders
10. Medicinal Plants
11. Medicinal Plants with Immunomodulatory properties
12. Different types of Phytocompounds with Immunomodulatory Activities
13. Future Perspectives
2. The Immune System
3. Innate Immunity
4. Acquired Immunity
5. Immunomodulation
6. Different Immune Cells and their role
7. Autoimmune Disorders
8. Organ specific autoimmune disorders
9. Systemic autoimmune disorders
10. Medicinal Plants
11. Medicinal Plants with Immunomodulatory properties
12. Different types of Phytocompounds with Immunomodulatory Activities
13. Future Perspectives
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 25, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443187766
- eBook ISBN: 9780443187773
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Reetika Mahajan
Dr. Reetika Mahajan is currently working as a woman scientist at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-Kashmir), J&K, India. She has 4 years of Research and more than one year of teaching experience in different subjects of Biotechnology. Her research interests include plant genomics and proteomics, molecular breeding, biochemistry, and transgenics. Earlier, she was deeply involved in teaching undergraduate courses such as Cell and Molecular Biology, Genomics and Proteomics, Tissue culture, Environmental biotechnology, etc. at college level. Her editorial activities and scientific memberships include publishing research and review articles in international journals and as a reviewer. Dr Mahajan has published various research and review papers, book chapters on Molecular breeding, genomics and proteomic techniques, and stress tolerant crop plants. She is also reviewer of a few reputed journals: Current Agriculture Research Journal, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition & Agriculture. She received individual grants (WOS-B) from DST, New Delhi for conducting research.
Affiliations and expertise
Proteomics Laboratory, Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-Kashmir), IndiaFS
Faheem Shehjar
Dr. Faheem Shehjar is presently working as Post Doc Research Associate of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Centre. Earlier, he worked as Senior Resident at the Advanced Centre for Human Genetics, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). He obtained his doctorate in Biomedical Sciences from SKIMS (2017). He was awarded the prestigious CSIR-JRF fellowship (2012). Dr. Shehjar was also awarded the Exemplary Researcher Award, SKIMS (2019). Dr. Shehjar has published his research in various international reputed journals and has extensive experience in medical genetics and immunology and holds co-editorship at Intech Open Publications. His expertise includes immunology and genetics.
Affiliations and expertise
Post Doc Research Associate, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, NE, USASZ
Sajad Majeed Zargar
Sajad Majeed Zargar, Ph.D, is currently an Assistant Professor at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Sciences & Technology in India and visiting Professor at University of Padova, Italy. Dr. Zargar is the recipient of the CREST overseas fellowship from DBT, the Goho grant from Govt. of Japan, and the Erasmus Fellowship from European Union. He is also a member and representative of INPPO (International Plant Proteomics Organisation). His editorial activities and scientific memberships include publishing research and review articles in international journals and is also reviewer.
Affiliations and expertise
Proteomics Laboratory, Division of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Sciences and Technology, J&K, IndiaKM
Khalid Z. Masoodi
Dr. Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is a young scientist who works as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Plant Biotechnology at the Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Kashmir (India). He holds a Master's degree in Biotechnology and a doctorate in Plant Biotechnology. Dr. Masoodi is the recipient of numerous awards, including the SERB Early Career Research Award 2016, the SBUR Travel Award in the United States of America in 2012, and the Society of Endocrinology Journal Award in 2018 at Glasgow United Kingdoms. Dr. Masoodi has a distinguished academic record, having qualified for the CSIR-UGC net in Life Sciences, the DBT-BET JRF, and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering and Sciences (GATE) while doing his Masters in Biotechnology. Dr. Masoodi has filed Six patent applications in last 2 years, has over 12 years of teaching and research experience, and has published numerous scientific articles in the fields of cancer research, human disease research, and biotechnology research. His laboratory (Transcriptomics Laboratory, often known as K-Lab, after the Klenow fragment) at SKUAST-K is fully equipped with fluorescence imaging, real-time PCR, cell culture, and Western blotting including other state-of-the-art equipment. His research interests span multiple dimensions, including transcriptomics of plant stress biology (biotic/abiotic) and cancer biology. Apart from that, he is extensively involved in the research of new drugs from medicinal plants. Additionally, he is a co-author of Advanced Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Methods (Academic Press, 2020).
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor/Junior Scientist at the Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, IndiaZS
Zahoor A Shah
Zahoor Shah works in the University of Toledo, OH, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Toledo, OH, USARead Role of Medicinal Plants in Autoimmune Diseases on ScienceDirect