Inflammation: Natural Resources and Its Applications

Parag Jain

ISBN 10: 8132221621 / ISBN 13: 9788132221623

Edité par Springer India, 2014

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Inflammation is the very natural process of our body; it does its work immediately and smoothly along with lots of helpers. Inflammation is linked to immune system as acute inflammatory or pro-inflammatory phase through macrophage activation. This book is for researchers and scholars in the field of life sciences and medical sciences. The book contains all inflammatory sources around the world. It emphasizes on anti-inflammatory sources along with its active inflammatory constituents and other medicinal uses with authentic references. Anti-inflammation is a kind of activity with is found in nearly all of the natural sources used for major biological activities. So, the book helps them to correlate their activity of interest with anti-inflammatory source. The present work deals with illustrative representation of inflammation, causes of inflammation, inflammatory mediators, anti-inflammatory sources other uses and inflammation and lifestyle. It mainly provides the researchers the updated information from the ancient to the most recent ongoing research on inflammation. This book imparts pace to their idea of thinking, assist to make clear predictions before proceeding to research. The introduction includes natural sources of inflammation and its benefits; the sources are from plant, animal and marine. The book tells how these sources are useful for us to cure several diseases and opens new path for further research. Inflammation part of the book is well presented along with its phases, types and other diseases interrelated with inflammation. Inflammatory mediators, the foremost player of inflammation are defined in a very pleasant and convenient manner. The chapter includes both cell- derived and plasma - derived mediators illustratively with their synthesis and action. Natural source of anti-inflammation is the heart chapter of this book which contains all anti-inflammation sources from plants, marine and animals. This chapter also contains short description of most of the sources, its availability and uses. The authors have also added inflammatory models for assessment of biological activities of natural sources both in vitro and in vivo. Inflammation free lifestyle is described very nicely in the book. The contents are very specific and relevant to its topic; all the data provided is unique and useful. The anti-inflammatory table includes sources, plant parts used, active constituents and other uses. This data provides ample information regarding anti-inflammatory research and innovation. The highlights of this book shall be:-Describes almost all anti-inflammatory sources around the globe at one place in a more convenient tabulated form-Illustrative representation makes the book more attractive and interactive.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Inflammation: Natural Resources and Its Applications
• Éditeur: Springer India
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 8132221621
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788132221623
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 238 L x 154 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 238 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 313 grammes

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Synopsis

Inflammation is the very natural process of our body; it does its work immediately and smoothly along with lots of helpers. Inflammation is linked to immune system as acute inflammatory or pro-inflammatory phase through macrophage activation. This book is for researchers and scholars in the field of life sciences and medical sciences. The book contains all inflammatory sources around the world. It emphasizes on anti-inflammatory sources along with its active inflammatory constituents and other medicinal uses with authentic references. Anti-inflammation is a kind of activity with is found in nearly all of the natural sources used for major biological activities. So, the book helps them to correlate their activity of interest with anti-inflammatory source.

The present work deals with illustrative representation of inflammation, causes of inflammation, inflammatory mediators, anti-inflammatory sources other uses and inflammation and lifestyle. It mainly provides the researchers the updated information from the ancient to the most recent ongoing research on inflammation.

This book imparts pace to their idea of thinking, assist to make clear predictions before proceeding to research. The introduction includes natural sources of inflammation and its benefits; the sources are from plant, animal and marine. The book tells how these sources are useful for us to cure several diseases and opens new path for further research. Inflammation part of the book is well presented along with its phases, types and other diseases interrelated with inflammation. Inflammatory mediators, the foremost player of inflammation are defined in a very pleasant and convenient manner. The chapter includes both cell- derived and plasma - derived mediators illustratively with their synthesis and action. Natural source of anti-inflammation is the heart chapter of this book which contains all anti-inflammation sources from plants, marine and animals. This chapter also contains short description of most of the sources, its availability and uses. The authors have also added inflammatory models for assessment of biological activities of natural sources both in vitro and in vivo. Inflammation free lifestyle is described very nicely in the book.

The contents are very specific and relevant to its topic; all the data provided is unique and useful. The anti-inflammatory table includes sources, plant parts used, active constituents and other uses. This data provides ample information regarding anti-inflammatory research and innovation. The highlights of this book shall be:

-Describes almost all anti-inflammatory sources around the globe at one place in a more convenient tabulated form

-Illustrative representation makes the book more attractive and interactive

À propos de l?auteur

Mr. Parag Jain, M.Pharm Pharmacology, Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacology, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur. He completed his master s degree in 2013 from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur). He has been honoured by Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore in 2012 for promotion towards research and selected for P.C. Dandiya prize for poster presentation on anti-inflammatory activity of Artesunate in 2013. He was involved in edge cutting research work at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), CSIR, Jammu for 6 months and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi for 2 months during his master s, where he got expertise in toxicity testing, preclinical studies, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, with equal inclination to ethnopharmacology. His areas of interest include neuropharmacology, toxicology, molecular biology, diabetes, ethnopharmacology and so on. He has recognized publications in national and international journals to his credit and few more in pipeline. His present work lies on exploring the natural sources for treating type-2 diabetes.

Dr. Ravindra Pandey, PhD Pharmacognosy, Associate Professor in Department of Pharmacognosy, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur, India is a renowned academician in the field of Medicinal plants. His specific area of research is phytochemistry, natural products and herbal medicines. He has more than 10 years of teaching and professional experience. He has several research papers published in national and international journals. He is an approved examiner and paper setter of different Indian Universities. He has a long standing interest in teaching at the PG level and is involved in taking courses in pharmacognosy, microbiology, and isolation and standardization of herbal drugs.

Dr. Shiv Shankar Shukla, PhD Technology, is a Professor in Department of Pharmacognosy, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur. He completed his PhD in the development of quality control parameters of some formulations containing herbals in 2012. His area of research interest is spectroscopic and fingerprinting of herbal formulations. He has 7.5 years of teaching experience. He has been awarded with Young Scientist of Chhattisgarh from Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology under the discipline of medical science and pharmaceutical science and Dr. P.D. Sethi annual award for the best paper on TLC densitometric fingerprint of 6-Gingerol in 2010. He has more than 27 publications to his credit."