Micronutrients and Macronutrients as Nutraceuticals

ISBN-13: 9781774912263 / Twarda / 2024 / 380 str.

Opis

Explores the beneficial aspects of micronutrients and macronutrient, such as their antioxidant and immunity-boosting properties. It looks at microbes and microbials as nutraceuticals and discusses adding micronutrients, macronutrients, and nutraceuticals to the human diet for optimum health and beneficial bacteria in gut.

Spis treści

1. Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals 2. Antioxidants Activity of Micronutrients and Macronutrients 3. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals 4. Microbes and Microbial Products as Nutraceuticals 5. Immunity-Boosting Macronutrients and Micronutrients 6. Gut Microbiota and Pathogens 7. Nutrient Delivery of Micronutrients and Macronutrients 8. Micronutrients and Macronutrients in Nutrigenomics 9. Alternative Food and Therapeutic Food 10. Micronutrients and Macronutrients in Food Engineering 11. Food Processing of Micronutrients and Macronutrients 12. Nutrition, Diet, and Health: Role of Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Nutraceuticals

O autorze

Prakash Chandra Gupta, PhD, MPharm, is Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, India. He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience. He has published many research and review articles in reputed national and international journals. He has received various research project grants from funding agencies. Dr. Gupta received his BPharm degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India; MPharm degree (Pharmacognosy) from the Institute of Pharmacy, Barkatullah University Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; and PhD degree from the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. His research interests include standardization of herbal medicine, pharmacological screening, and development of herbal formulations.

Sayan Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MD, is now working as Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, AIIH & PH Kolkata, India. Before this he had worked for more than four years in the Department of Microbiology at AIIMS Patna as Assistant Professor. He has more than 13 years of experience in teaching, patient care, laboratory work, and biomedical research in the field of medical microbiology and has over 75 publications in various peer-reviewed international medical journals. He has guided many students in their dissertation work. Dr. Bhattacharyya won the second-best oral paper at STMIDI TROPICON 2018, Kolkata, India. He has also won the best English essay award at Rabies and One Health, organized by Pashudhan Praharee in 2021. He is engaged in whole genome sequencing from clinical bacterial isolates (project work) with the Central Research Laboratory, KIMS, Bengaluru, India. His fields of interest are medical mycology, nosocomial infections, antimicrobial stewardship, and public health. He pursued his MD in Microbiology at PGIMER, Chandigarh and MBBS from Medical College Calcutta, India.

Nisha Sharma, PhD, MPharm, is presently working as Director of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, India. With teaching experience of over 23 years, she has authored many research articles in journals and books. A popular figure in the pharmaceutical field, she has chaired many scientific sessions of national and international conferences. Dr. Sharma has served as a resource person for All India Council for Technical Education faculty development programs. Her area of research includes phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology, and herbal formulations. She is associated with many professional bodies in her field. Dr. Sharma received her BPharm from J. S. S. College of Pharmacy, Mysore, India; MPharm from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India; and PhD from Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India. He has more than 11 years of research and nine years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by the National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised one PhD and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students for their research work. Dr. Kesharwani has authored over 49 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and 14 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented many papers at various national and international conferences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and worked at NIT Warangal for two semesters. He has been a recipient of a Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences.

Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is Associate Professor, Faculty of B. Pharmacy, CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience at various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has supervised more than 25 undergraduate students for their research work. He published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, many book chapters, several co-authored books, and over 20 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Mr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. Mr. Keservani is a life member of Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER). His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.