Lycium Barbarum and Human Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chang, Raymond Chuen-Chung (Editor), So, Kwok-Fai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Complementary medicine.; Plant science.; Botany.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.; Food Science.; Plant Sciences.

This book seeks to unravel the mysteries of wolfberry, and systematically introduces its mechanisms in preventing aging-associated diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, liver and neurodegenerative diseases. Wolfberry, the dried fruit of Lycium barbarum, is an anti-aging herbal med...

Table of Contents:

• Chemical and Genetic Diversity of Wolfberry
• Immunoregulation and Lycium barbarum
• The antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects of Wolfberry in fatty liver disease
• Effects of Lycium barbarum on modulation of blood vessel and hemodynamics
• Dermatologic Uses and Effects of Lycium barbarum
• Lycium Barbarum and Tumor in Gastrointestinal Tract
• Prevention of Neurodegeneration for Alzheimer’s Disease by Lycium barbarum
• Pro-sexual effects of Lycium barbarum
• Lycium barbarum: Neuroprotective Effects in Ischemic Stroke
• Secondary Degeneration after Partial Optic Nerve Injury and Possible Neuroprotective Effects of Lycium Barbarum (wolfberry)
• Role of Lycium barbarum extracts in retinal diseases
• Allergenic Sensitization Mediated by Wolfberry'.