Curcumin and Its Role in Health and Disease

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Kathryn Woltjer (Editor)

Series: Nutrition and Diet Research Progress
BISAC: MED000000

This book contains eight chapters discussing curcumin and its role in health and disease. Chapter One evaluates curcumin’s role in cancer prevention. Chapter Two reviews curcumin’s function as a natural systemic disease modulator. Chapter Three looks at the effects of curcumin supplantation and exercise training on Alzheimer’s disease and age-associated cognitive decline. Chapter Four focuses on the antiviral effects of curcumin, with a special emphasis on COVID-19. Chapter Five examines green extraction techniques for curcumin, synthetic approaches, as well as its anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, and anti-neoplastic effects. Chapter Six reviews the possible effects of immune responses to the preventive combined effects of exercise training and curcumin supplementation in chronic disease. Chapter Seven is a mini review of the essential therapeutic effects of curcumin. The eighth and final chapter examines the promises and challenges of curcumin in medical research.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Curcumin and Its Role in Cancer Prevention
Sayanta Sarkar1 and Parames C. Sil2
1
Department of Life science and Bio-technology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India
2Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Chapter 2. Curcumin As a Natural Systemic Disease Modulator
Sohair Aly Hassan1, Noha N. Nasr1 and Afaf Al Ansary2
1
Therapeutic Chemistry Department, Pharmaceutical & Drug Industries Research Institute, National Research Center, , Cairo, Egypt
2Lotus Holistic Alternative Medical Center, URA , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Chapter 3. Effects of Curcumin Supplantation and Exercise Training on Alzheimer’s Disease and Age-Associated Cognitive Decline
S. Amani-Shalamzari1, PhD, M. Molanouri Shamsi2, PhD, S. Agha-Mohammadi2 and C. D. Paton3, PhD
1Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3School of Health and Sport Science, The Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier, New Zealand

Chapter 4. Antiviral Effect of Curcumin: A Special Emphasis on COVID-19
Shivangini R. Desai, Manni J. Vishwakarma and Sonal S. Desai
Department of Quality Assurance, SSR College of Pharmacy, Sayli Road, Sayli, Silvassa, Union Territory of Dadra Nagar Haveli & Daman Diu India

Chapter 5. Curcumin: Green Extraction Techniques, Synthetic Approaches and Its Anti-Inflammatory, Anti-Oxidant and Anti-Neoplastic Effects
Lucas D. Dias1, Adrieli Oliveira Raminelli2, Bruno Lemes Marques3 and Ricardo C. Parreira1
1
Centro Universitário de Mineiros, Campus Trindade, Trindade, GO, Brazil
2Laboratório de Psicofarmacologia, Departamento de Neurociências e Ciências do Comportamento da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
3Departamento de Farmacologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil

Chapter 6. Preventive Combined Effects of Exercise Training and Curcumin Supplementation in Chronic Disease: Possible Effects of Immune Responses
M. Molanouri Shamsi1, PhD and S. Amani-Shalamzari2, PhD
1Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Chapter 7. The Essential Therapeutic Effects of Curcumin: A Mini Review
Soumitra Shome and Anupam Das Talukdar
Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants Research Laboratory, Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

Chapter 8. Promises and Challenges of Curcumin
Gulmi Chakraborty1,2 and Soumen Ghosh1
1Centre for Surface Science, Physical Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2Department of Chemistry, C.V. Raman Global University, Odisha, India

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