Recent Advances in Redox Active Plant and Microbial Products From Basic Chemistry to Widespread Applications in Medicine and Agriculture /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jacob, Claus (Editor), Kirsch, Gilbert (Editor), Slusarenko, Alan (Editor), Winyard, Paul G. (Editor), Burkholz, Torsten (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Plant biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Plant Biochemistry.

Nature endows us with a treasure chest of Green Gold full of amazing substances we can use as part of our daily life. Many of these compounds are ‘redox-active’, and hence able to trigger or interfere with numerous biological processes which occur in our own body, in animals, bacteria, fungi and pla...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Sources of redox active secondary metabolites
• The modern art of identification of natural substances in whole plants (I)
• A word on redox activity
• Oxidative stress, antioxidants, chemoprevention and beneficial roles of pro-oxidants
• The French paradox at Tea time: From flavonoids toward synthetic stilbene-based drugs
• Bio reactivity of resveratrol in relation to inflammatory processes; Norbert Latruffe
• Treasures along the oligomeric road from flavonoids to polyphenols and tannins
• The cellular thiolstat as emerging target of secondary metabolites
• Thiosulfinates, organic polysulfanes and related compounds: From an unusual chemistry toward a wealth of potential applications
• Beyond glutathione:- Different low molecular weight thiols as mediators of redox regulation and other metabolic functions in lower organisms
• Garlic based natural “products”: Turning secondary plant metabolites into a commercial success
• Phytol, a chlorophyll component with anti-inflammatory properties
• Recent advances in molecular genetics of furanocoumarin synthesis in higher plants
• Natural products molten together: Towards multifunctional hybrid molecules with specific activities and applications
• Nanotaxis for antioxidants
• Industrial uses of redox active enzymes
• Systemic enzyme therapy – Fact or Fiction
• Conclusions and outlook.