Turmeric: The Salt of the Orient is the Spice of Life |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Acknowledgements | 1 |
CHEMICAL AND NUTRIENT COMPOSITION | 14 |
ANTIINFLAMMATORY EFFECTS | 22 |
Lysosomal Enzymes and Membranes | 37 |
ANTIATHEROSCLEROTIC EFFECTS | 47 |
MOLECULAR EVENTS IN CARCINOGENESIS | 64 |
TUMOR MODELS | 105 |
ANTIMUTAGENIC AND DNA PROTECTIVE | 136 |
XENOBIOTIC METABOLIZING ENZYMES XBME | 162 |
ANTIINFECTIVE EFFECTS | 173 |
MISCELLANEOUS EFFECTS | 179 |
CURCUMIN METABOLISM AND DISPOSITION | 199 |
TOXICOLOGY OF TURMERICCURCUMIN | 209 |
CLINICAL STUDIES | 216 |
TURMERICCURCUMINOIDS A PROMISING | 233 |
Abbreviations | 243 |
Common terms and phrases
acid action activity adducts adhesion administration agent angiogenesis animals anti-inflammatory antioxidant apoptosis appears binding Biochem blood breast cancer cells carcinogen carcinogenesis cell lines changes chapter chemopreventive cholesterol chronic clinical colon concentrations Curcuma longa Curcumin inhibits curcuminoids cytokines damage decreased dependent diabetic diet dietary diseases dose drug effect of curcumin endothelial cells enzymes et al expression extract factor formation function further gene growth growth factor human important increased India indicated induced inflammation inflammatory inhibitor initiation injury kinase levels lipid peroxidation liver lung macrophages mechanisms mediated medicinal mg/kg mice molecules NF-kappa normal observed oral oxidative patients Pharmacol phase potential preventive production proliferation promotion prostate protection protein rats receptor reduced regulation response role showed signal significant significantly spice stimulated studies suggesting suppressed Table tested tissue toxicity transcription factors treated treatment tumor turmeric turmeric and curcumin vitro vivo weeks
Bibliographic information
| Title | Turmeric: The Salt of the Orient is the Spice of Life |
| Author | Kamala Krishnaswamy |
| Publisher | Allied Publishers |
| ISBN | 8184241267, 9788184241266 |
| Length | 248 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |