Neuroprotective natural products : clinical aspects and mode of action / edited by Goutam Brahmachari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brahmachari, Goutam, editor.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Neuroprotective agents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, 2017.

Summary:

Focusing on the molecular mechanisms of powerful naturally occurring agents and their implication for drug discovery, this timely book presents an overview of the most recent research advances in the field of bioactive natural products and natural drug formulations to combat today's destructive diseases. To this extent, the authors discuss the most severe neurological disorders in our modern civilization, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, as well as ischemic brain stroke and depression. The emerging diversity of active compounds is covered in detail, including flavonoids, cannabinoids and oleanolic acid, while experts in the field explain the chemistry, mode of action and clinical aspects of novel nEuroprotective natural products. In each case, the benefits of treatments using natural products are addressed from the perspective of modern as well as traditional medicine. With its multidisciplinary viewpoint, this is the ideal companion for medicinal and natural products chemists as well as neuroscientists, biochemists, pharmacologists, neurobiologists, and phytotherapists.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Neuroprotective natural products : clinical aspects and modes of action : an overview / Goutam Brahmachari

Neuroprotective agents : an overview on the general modes of action / Christina Volsko, Ranjan Dutta

Beneficial upshots of naturally occurring antioxidant compounds against neurological disorders / Sukanya Saha, Pritam Sadhukhan, Parames C. Sil

Natural neuroprotectives for the management of Parkinson's fisease / Bharti Gaba, Shobhit Kumar, Shadab Md, Sanjula Baboota, Jasjeet K. Narang, Javed Ali

Neuroprotective effect of Ayurvedic preparations and natural products on Parkinson's disease / Anupom Borah, Amarendranath Choudhury, Rajib Paul, Muhammed K. Mazumder, Swapnali Chetia

Lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases : role of natural products as cytoprotective agents / Carlos Fernández-Moriano, Elena González-Burgos, Maria Pilar Gómez-Serranillos

Marine-derived anti-Alzheimer's agents of promise / Kapil Dev, Rakesh Maurya

Natural products against Huntington's disease (HD) : implications of neurotoxic animal models and transgenics in preclinical studies / Abhijit Dey

Possible role of neuroprotectants and natural products in epilepsy : clinical aspects and mode of action / Anil Kumar, Manveen Bhardwaj, Harshpreet Kaur

Neuroprotective effects of flavonoids in epilepsy / Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Marjan Nassiri-Asl

The role of noncompetitive antagonists of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in treatment-resistant depression / Gianluca Serafini, Shawn Hayley, Mehdi Ghasemi, Mario Amore

Safety and efficacy of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) / Shri K Mishra, Bharathi A Venkatachalapathy, Hadi M Khanli

Cannabinoids : a group of promising neuroprotective agents / Laura R Caltana, Alicia Brusco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9783527803798

3527803793

9783527803804

3527803807

9783527803781

3527803785

OCLC:

974642769