Natural Bioactive Compounds: Technological Advancements

Natural Bioactive Compounds: Technological Advancements deals with the latest breakthroughs in the field of screening, characterization and novel applications of natural bioactive compounds from diverse group of organisms ranging from bacteria, viruses, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bryophytes, higher plants, sponges, corals and fishes. Written by some of the most reputed scientists in the field, this book introduces the reader to strategies and methods in the search for bioactive natural products. It is an essential read for researchers and students interested in bioactive natural products, their biological and pharmacological properties, their possible use as chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agents, and other future potential applications. Explores natural sources of bioactive compounds, including cyanobacteria, bacteria, viruses, fungi and higher plantsDiscusses the potential applications of biological products, such as their use in medicine (antibiotics, cancer research, immunology), as food additives, supplements and technological substancesAnalyzes the contributions of emerging or developing technologies for the study of bioactive natural compounds (characterization and purification) INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Bioactive compounds from bacteria and viruses3. Advances in phycobiliproteins research: Innovations and commercialization4. Cyanobacterial photoprotective compounds: Characterization and utilization in human welfare5. Bionanotechnology of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds6. Bioactive molecules from microalgae and constraints in commercialization7. Strategies of overproduction of lipids and fine chemicals from commercially important microalgae8. Biotechnological Exploitation of Macroalgae9. Algal compounds to fight human diseases such as Alzheimer's dementia and cancer10. Bioactive compounds and their future therapeutic applications11. Novel Biotechnological Substances from Bryophytes12. Biotechnological Substances in Lichens13. Bioactive Compounds in Fungi14. Novel Biotechnological Substances in Higher Plants15. New perspectives of the Artemisia annua bioactive compounds as an affordable cure in treatment of malaria and cancer16. Pesticidal efficacy of plant bioactive compounds: An overview17. Marine Sponges: Source of Novel Biotechnological Substances18. Biotechnological Compounds from Corals19. Bioactive Compounds from Fish20. Advances in extraction technologies-Isolation and purification of bioactive compounds from biological materials

• ISBN: 978-0-12-820655-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 514
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés