Dietary Phytochemicals and Microbes

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Patra, Amlan K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Science.; Chemistry.; Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Science, general.; Life Sciences, general.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.

Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties, including antimicrobial properties, for many centuries. However, with the availability of effective, synthetic antimicrobial drugs, interest in using medicinal plants declined during th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• List of contributors
• Preface
•  1 An overview of antimicrobial properties of different classes of phytochemicals
•  2 Antimicrobial properties of flavonoids
•  3 Antiviral properties of Phytochemicals
•  4 Antimicrobial properties of organosulfur compounds
•  5 Antimicrobial activities of essential oils
•  6 Phytochemicals against drug-resistant microbes.-  7 Phytochemicals as anti-microbial food preservatives
•  8 Dietary tannins on microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract in ruminants
•  9 Manipulating ruminal biohydrogenation by the use of plants bioactive compounds
•  10 Essentials oils and rumen microbial populations
•  11 Saponins: effects on rumen microbial ecosystem and metabolism in the rumen
•  12 Effect of plant secondary metabolites on rumen methanogens and methane emissions by ruminants
•  13 Phytochemicals and gut microbial populations in non-ruminants
• Index.  .