Ebook: Herbs: Challenges in Chemistry and Biology

Content: 1. Botanical quality initiatives at the office of dietary supplements, National institutes of health --
2. Current trends and future prospects of traditional Chinese medicines in the 21st century --
3. Bioactive polyphenols from foods and dietary supplements : challenges and opportunities --
4. Instrumental analysis of popular botanical products in the U.S. market --
5. Challenges in assessing bioactive botanical ingredients in functional beverages --
6. Bioactive natural products from Chinese tropical marine plants and invertebrates --
7. Curcumin : potential health benefits, molecular mechanism of action, and its anticancer properties in vitro and in vivo --
8. Need for analytical methods and fingerprinting : total quality control of phytomedicine Echinacea --
9. Bioassay-guided isolation, identification, and quantification of the estrogen-like constituent from PC SPES --
10. Intraspecific variation in quality control parameters, polyphenol profile, and antioxidant activity in wild populations of Lippia multiflora from Ghana --
11. Protein tyrosine phosphatases 1B inhibitors from traditional Chinese medicine --
12. Thioglucosidase-catalyzed hydrolysis of the major glucosinolate of Maca (Lepidium meyenii) to benzyl isothiocyanate : mini-review and simple quantitativeHPLC method --
13. Studies on chemical constituents of jiaogulan (gynostemma pentaphyllum) --
14. Chemical components of noni (morinda citrifolia L.) root --
15. Characterization of chemical components of Ixeris denticulata --
16. Bioavailability, metabolism, and pharmacokinetics of glycosides in Chinese herbs --
17. Moringa, a novel plant rich in antioxidants, bioavailable iron, and nutrients --
18. Stability and transformation of bioactive polyphenolic components of herbs in physiological pH --
19. Bioavailability and synergistic effects of tea catechins as antioxidants in the human diet --
20. Targeting inflammation using Asian herbs --
21. Induction of apoptosis by Ligusticum chuanxiong in HSC-T6 stellate cells --
22. Effect of combined use of isothiocyanate and black tea extract on dental caries --
23. Cytotoxic properties of leaf essential oil and components from indigenous cinnamon (cinnamomum osmophloeum Kaneh) --
24. Effect of black tea theaflavins on 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-induced inflammation : expression of proinflammatory cytokines and arachidonic acid metabolism in mouse ear and colon carcinogenesis in min (apc+/- ) mice --
25. Shea butter : chemistry, quality, and new market potentials.