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The Role of Phytonutrients in Metabolic Disorders

  • 1st Edition - June 21, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Haroon Khan, Esra Akkol, Maria Daglia
  • Language: English

The Role of Phytonutrients in Metabolic Disorders provides the information readers need to conduct research on phytonutrients in metabolic disorders. The book presents the treatm… Read more

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Description

The Role of Phytonutrients in Metabolic Disorders provides the information readers need to conduct research on phytonutrients in metabolic disorders. The book presents the treatment of metabolic diseases using phytonutrients, the key regulatory mechanisms of phytonutrients in metabolic pathways, and evaluates phytonutrients as a source of new drug candidate molecules. The book compiles and evaluates the very latest findings and therapeutic developments in the management of various metabolic disorders, their underlying mechanisms, and the clinical potential and limitations of phytonutrients. Thirteen chapters illustrate the therapeutic potential of phytonutrients in the management of various metabolic disorders through the regulation of signaling pathways.

Key features

  • Supports the therapeutic potential of phytonutrients in the management of metabolic disorders
  • Details the regulatory mechanisms of phytonutrients in metabolic pathways
  • Considers phytonutrients as a source of new drug candidate molecules
  • Evaluates and compiles current research on phytonutrients in relation to metabolic disorders
  • Gives insights into the clinical uses of phytonutrients for the management of metabolic disorders

Readership

Natural product researchers; nutritionists; medical practitioners; pharmacologists and pharmacognosists; food chemists; food scientists; phytochemists; medical chemistry researchers. Medical students and graduate students in pharmacology, pharmaceutical science, and related fields

Table of contents

Section A

1. Metabolic disorders and current therapeutic needs

2. Effects of phytonutrients in various metabolic pathways

3. Nanotechnology and phytonutrients

Section B

4. Genetic effects of phytonutrients in metabolic disorders

5. Therapeutic role of nutraceuticals in the management of metabolic brain disorders

6. Phytonutrients in the management of glucose metabolism

7. Phytonutrients in the management of lipids metabolism

8. Cancer metabolism regulation by phytonutrients

9. Acid-base and electrolyte balance regulations with phytonutrients

10. Therapeutic role of nutraceutical in mitochondrial disorders

11. Phytonutrients in regulation of malabsorption disorders

12. Skin metabolic syndrome and phytonutrients

13. Cachexia and phytonutrients

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 22, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Haroon Khan

Prof. Dr. Haroon Khan has obtained the degree of B. Pharm (1999), M. Phil (2005), and PhD (2011) from the Department of Pharmacy, University of Peshawar. He started his career as a lecturer from the Gandhara College of Pharmacy, Gandhara University, Peshawar and currently, Professor of Pharmacy at the Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He has more than seventeen years of experience in pharmacy teaching, research and professional expertise in various fields of pharmaceutical sciences. Dr. Khan has 162 publications, including research, review, and editorial in various national and international reputable journals with considerable impact factor while several others are submitted or in the process of submission. His research focus is phytomedicines including phytopharmacological and phytochemical investigations of extracts/isolated compounds in collaboration with numerous national and international research groups. The scientific contribution of Dr. Khan has been acknowledged by the Pakistan Council for Science and Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) and awarded Research Productivity four times 2011-2014. He has also published three books with LAMBERT Academic publishers, Germany and four chapters. He is also the editorial board member of various international journals. Additionally, he is supervising many post-graduate scholars in various research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Pakistan

EA

Esra Akkol

Esra Akkol is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, at Gazi University, in Turkey.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Turkey

MD

Maria Daglia

Maria Daglia is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, at the University of Naples Federico II in Naples, Italy.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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