Recent Frontiers of Phytochemicals

Delivers a comprehensive examination of phytochemical production and the structures and pharmacological mechanisms of natural products for human health

Siddhartha Pati (Edited by), Tanmay Sarkar (Edited by), Dibyajit Lahiri (Edited by)

9780443191435, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 28 April 2023

704 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 4.3 cm, 0.45 kg

Phytochemicals have been present in human diet and life since the birth of mankind, including the consuming of plant foods and the application of herbal treatments. This coevolutionary interaction of plants and people has resulted in humans' reliance on food and medicinal plants as sources of macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive phytochemicals. Phytochemicals can be used as adjuvant agents and sensitizers in traditional antibiotic and anticancer therapy, reducing the potential of selecting resistant microbial strains and cancer cells. Recent Frontiers of Phytochemicals addresses the many processes of potential phytochemical evaluation of known sources, with a focus on phytochemical and pharmacological evaluations, and computational research into the structures and pharmacological mechanisms of natural products and their applications in medicine, food and biotech.

1. Phytochemicals: Recent trends in food, pharmacy and biotechnology 2. Novel extraction and characterization methods for phytochemicals 3. Primary and secondary plant metabolites: Phytochemical families 4. Phytochemicals and cancer 5. Bioactivity of essential oils and its medicinal applications 6. Marine based phytochemicals for biomedical and pharmaceutical research 7. Phytochemicals in biofilm inhibition 8. Role of natural pigments in consumer based industrial revolution 4.0 9. Phytochemicals as safe fortification agent in fermented food industries 10. Big data in phytochemical research 11. QSAR and phytochemicals 12. Deep learning and AI/ML approach in phytochemical-based drug discovery 13. Molecular docking study of bioactive phytochemicals against infectious diseases 14. Phytochemicals in structure-based drug discovery 15. Future perspective phytochemical research

Subject Areas: Biotechnology [TCB], Organic chemistry [PNN], Pharmacology [MMG]