Curcumin: Biological, Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, and Analytical Aspects

Nutraceutical Value of Pure Curcumin

Transport Across Caco-2 Monolayer: Biological, Pharmaceutical and Analytical Considerations

Nutraceutical and functional food ingredients for food and pharmaceutical applications.

Food-derived bioactive peptides represent a source of health enhancing components that may be incorporated in functional foods and in pharmaceutical preparations. These peptides are potential modulators of various regulatory processes in the body. Milk proteins are precursors of many different biologically active peptides, e.g. peptides having opioid, hypotensive (angiotensin-converting enzymei...

Food, Industrial, Nutraceutical, and Pharmaceutical Uses of Sesame Genetic Resources

INTRODUCTION Sesame (Sesamum indicum L., Pedaliaceae) is a very old cultivated crop and thought to have originated in Africa (Ram et al. 1990). However, Oplinger et al. (1990) have indicated it to be a highly prized oil crop of Babylon and Assyria about 4,000 years ago. The Chinese burned sesame oil for light and to make soot for their ink blocks. African slaves brought sesame seeds, which they...

pharmaceutical and nutraceutical effects of pinus pinaster bark extract

in everyday life, our body generates free radicals and other reactive oxygen species which are derived either from the endogenous metabolic processes (within the body) or from external sources. many clinical and pharmacological studies suggest that natural antioxidants can prevent oxidative damage. among the natural antioxidant products, pycnogenol ® (french pinus pinaster bark extract) has bee...