Bioactive Essential Oils and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Sousa, Damião Pergentino (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.; Plant Sciences.

This volume provides a general overview of the therapeutic potential of the essential oils in cancer and highlights some promising future directions. It integrates chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine while discussing bioactive essential oils in experimental models and clinical studies of cancer. T...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Principles of cancer pathogenesis and therapy: a brief overview
• Chapter 2: Essential Oils Chemistry
• Chapter 3: Pharmacobotanical Aspects of Aromatic Plants
• Chapter 4: Essential oils as Raw Materials in the Synthesis of Anticancer Drugs
• Chapter 5: Antitumor Essential Oils: Progress in Medicinal Chemistry
• Chapter 6: Clinical Advances on Anticancer Essential Oils
• Chapter 7: Antitumor Essential Oils
• Chapter 8: Antitumor Monoterpenes
• Chapter 9: Sesquiterpenes from Essential Oils with Promising Antitumor Properties
• Chapter 10: Antitumor Phenylpropanoids
• Chapter 11: Antitumor Essential Oils: Synergy and Chemotherapeutic Interactions
• Chapter 12: Dietary Essential Oils and Cancer chemopreventive potential
• Chapter 13: Cancer and aromatherapy: a view of how the use of essential oils applies to palliative care
• Chapter 14: Perillyl Alcohol: A Pharmacotherapeutic Report
• Chapter 15: Conclusion and Future Perspectives.