Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties of Plant Products

ISBN-13: 9783844319033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 112 str.

Vijay Kothari

Opis

Bioactive natural products are those chemical compounds produced by living organisms that exert a biological effect on other organisms. All over the world at present scientists investigate plants, microorganisms, marine creatures and many other forms of life for biological activity. The area where activity has been greatest is the effect of extracts from the flowering plants on human physiology and human pathogens, since this is very relevant to the discovery of new drugs for treating diseases of human beings and other mammals. Testing large number of extracts or compounds to determine if they produce a biochemical or cellular effect is usually one of the first steps in the discovery of bioactive compounds.Plants contain a wide variety of antioxidant molecules, such as flavonoids, anthocyanins,carotenoids,etc. Plant antimicrobials may be of great help in dealing with drug-resistant bacteria due to their unique structures which are quite different than those of conventional antibiotics of microbial origin. This work will be of interest to microbiologists, phytochemists, and those who are into natural product chemistry.

O autorze

Dr. Vijay Kothari is affiliated with Nirma University as an Assistant Professor. For Ph.D. he worked on bioactive plant extracts. His research interests include- Bioactive natural products, Biological applications of microwaves, and Halophilic microorganisms. He has published 11 scientific papers, and is on reviewer panel of many journals.