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volumes <1 > : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Recent advances in polyphenol research ; v. 1 |
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Recent advances in polyphenol research ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 10.2.Characteristics of nutritional biomarkers -- 10.3.Strengths and limitations of biological biomarkers over dietary estimation -- 10.4.Resveratrol: a useful biomarker of wine consumption -- 10.5.References -- 11.Translation of Chemical Properties of Polyphenols into Biological Activity with Impact on Human Health / Joao Laranjinha -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Polyphenols as antioxidants: the earlier notions -- 11.2.1.The influence of redox potentials -- 11.2.2.Redox cycles of polyphenols with vitamins E and C: the influence of solubility -- 11.3.Beyond "global" antioxidation: alternate biological activities for polyphenols with impact on human health -- 11.3.1.Modulation of redox signaling pathways -- 11.3.2.Modulation of nitric oxide metabolism -- 11.4.References -- 12.Mitigation of Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Signaling by Fruit and Walnut Polyphenols: Implications for Cognitive Aging / Lauren M. Willis -- 12.1.Introduction -- |
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Contents note continued: 12.2.Oxidative stress/inflammatory interactions -- 12.2.1.Oxidative stress -- 12.2.2.Inflammation -- 12.2.3.Intracellular signaling -- 12.2.4.Calcium buffering capacity -- 12.2.5.Neurogenesis -- 12.2.6.Membrane changes -- 12.3.Nutritional interventions -- 12.3.1.Fruit polyphenols as neuroprotective agents -- 12.3.2.Polyunsaturated fatty acids and cognition: animal studies -- 12.4.References -- 13.Antiatherosclerotic Effects of Dietary Flavonoids: Insight into their Molecular Action Mechanism at the Target Site / Yoshichika Kawai -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Flavonoids in the diet and their antioxidant/prooxidant activity -- 13.3.Absorption and metabolism of dietary flavonoids in the digestive system -- 13.4.Oxidative LDL theory and antioxidant activity of flavonoids in plasma -- 13.5.Antioxidant and "beyond" antioxidant activity of flavonoids in the artery -- |
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Contents note continued: 13.6.Activated macrophages as potential targets of dietary flavonoids as antiatherosclerotic factors -- 13.7.Conclusion -- 13.8.References |
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Contents note continued: 2.2.3.Leguminosae anthocyanins: malonyltransferases of Clitoria ternatea -- 2.3.Advances in analytical methodology applied to Leguminosae flavonoids -- 2.3.1.Hyphenated MS techniques -- 2.3.2.Hyphenated NMR techniques and miniaturization -- 2.3.3.Chiroptical methods -- 2.4.Leguminosae flavonoids and chemosystematics -- 2.4.1.The disputed position of the Swartzieae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae or Papilionoideae? -- 2.4.2.Generic delimitation in the aldinoid clade of swartzioid legumes: Cordyla and Dupuya -- 2.4.3.Species-level studies of the isoflavonoid chemistry of Cicer -- 2.5.Concluding remarks -- 2.6.Acknowledgments -- 2.7.References -- 3.Updating Wine Pigments / Nuno Mateus -- 3.1.General overview -- 3.2.Factors that affect wine color intensity and stability -- 3.3.Chemical transformations of flavonoids -- 3.3.1.Condensation between anthocyanins and flavanols mediated by aldehydes -- 3.3.2.Reaction between flavanols and aldehydes -- |
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Contents note continued: 3.3.3.Direct condensation between flavanols and anthocyanins -- 3.3.4.Pyranoanthocyanins -- 3.3.4.1.Reaction between anthocyanins and vinyl compounds -- 3.3.4.2.Yeast metabolites involved in anthocyanin transformations -- 3.3.5.Vinylpyranoanthocyanins (portisins) -- 3.4.Final remarks -- 3.5.Acknowledgments -- 3.6.References -- 4.Ellagitannins - An Underestimated Class of Plant Polyphenols: Chemical Reactivity of C-Glucosidic Ellagitannins in Relation to Wine Chemistry and Biological Activity / Yves Glories -- 4.1.Ellagitannins: an underestimated class of bioactive plant polyphenols -- 4.2.C-Glucosidic ellagitannins: a special subclass of ellagitannins -- 4.2.1.Major C-glucosidic ellagitannins in oak and chestnut heartwoods -- 4.2.2.Complex C-glucosidic ellagitannins -- 4.2.3.Biosynthesis of C-glucosidic ellagitannins -- 4.2.4.Chemical reactivity of vescalagin and castalagin -- |
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Contents note continued: 4.2.5.Diastereofacial differentiation of the vescalagin-derived benzylic cation -- 4.3.Implications of C-glucosidic ellagitannins in wine chemistry -- 4.3.1.Hemisynthesis of acutissimins and their occurrence in wine -- 4.3.2.Condensation reaction between vescalagin and glutathione -- 4.3.3.Hemisynthesis of anthocyano-ellagitannins: possible influence on wine color -- 4.3.4.Oxidative conversion of acutissimin A into mongolicain A -- 4.4.Biological activity of C-glucosidic ellagitannins -- 4.4.1.Antiviral activity of C-glucosidic ellagitannins -- 4.4.2.Antitumor activity of C-glucosidic ellagitannins -- 4.5.Conclusion -- 4.6.Acknowledgments -- 4.7.References -- 5.Strategies to Optimize the Flavonoid Content of Tomato Fruit / Robert D. Hall -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.The metabolic route to flavonoids in tomato fruit -- 5.3.The natural biodiversity of flavonoids in tomato -- 5.3.1.Flavonoid biodiversity I: commercially available genotypes -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.3.2.Flavonoid biodiversity II: wild tomato species -- 5.3.3.Flavonoid biodiversity III: information from specific tomato mutants -- 5.4.Metabolic engineering of the flavonoid pathway -- 5.4.1.Exploitation of the transgenic approach using upregulation of structural genes -- 5.4.2.Using RNAi to block targeted steps in the flavonoid pathway -- 5.4.3.Production of novel tomato flavonoids by introducing new branches of the flavonoid pathway: flavonoid-related stilbenes -- 5.4.4.Production of novel tomato flavonoids by introducing new branches of the flavonoid pathway: deoxychalcones -- 5.4.5.Production of novel tomato flavonoids by introducing new branches of the flavonoid pathway: flavones, isoflavones, and aurones -- 5.4.6.Modifying the flavonoid pathway using regulatory genes -- 5.5.Metabolomics-assisted breeding -- 5.6.Conclusions and future prospects -- 5.7.Acknowledgments -- 5.8.References -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.5.3.Many flavonoids prevent and alleviate oxidative and nitrosative stresses -- 6.5.4.Salicylic acid promotes oxidative stress signaling pathway -- 6.6.Phenolics in vacuoles -- 6.6.1.Sunscreen role for vacuolar phenolics -- 6.6.2.Are vacuolar phenolics effective buffers? -- 6.6.3.Are vacuolar phenolics effective chelators? -- 6.7.Phenolics in mitochondria and chloroplasts -- 6.7.1.Inhibitory effects -- 6.7.2.Protecting effects -- 6.7.3.Putative phenolic photoreceptors -- 6.8.Phenolics have many emergent roles within the nucleus -- 6.8.1.Presence of phenolics within the nucleus -- 6.8.2.Flavonoids prevent DNA damages -- 6.8.3.Prooxidative actions of phenolics on DNA -- 6.8.4.Flavonoids affect histone acetylation and phosphorylation -- 6.8.5.Flavonoids inhibit DNA methylation -- 6.8.6.Phenolics affect cell cycle -- 6.8.7.Phenolics inhibit replication -- 6.8.8.Phenolics promote or repress transcription -- 6.9.Conclusion -- 6.10.References -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.Biological Activity of Phenolics in Plant Cells / Christian Jay-Allemand -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Synthesis and transports -- 6.2.1.Metabolic channeling at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) level -- 6.2.2.Endomembrane carriers -- 6.2.3.Vesicle trafficking -- 6.2.4.Long-distance transport -- 6.3.Phenolics interact with plasmalemma components -- 6.3.1.Biophysical interactions with phospholipid bilayers -- 6.3.2.Interactions with plasma membrane-associated proteins -- 6.3.3.Flavonoids prevent and alleviate oxidative burst -- 6.3.4.Phenolics modulate plasma membrane carriers -- 6.4.Phenolics in apoplast -- 6.4.1.Phenolics as a major player in mechanical tissue rigidification -- 6.4.2.Phenolics as major components of apoplastic chemical protection -- 6.4.3.Phenolics as apoplastic allelochemical signals -- 6.5.Phenolics in hyaloplasm -- 6.5.1.Phenolics interact with cytoskeleton -- 6.5.2.Phenolics inhibit carbohydrate catabolism -- |
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Contents note continued: 7.Muriel Wheldale Onslow and the Rediscovery of Anthocyanin Function in Plants / Kevin S. Gould -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.1.1.Muriel Wheldale Onslow: a brief biography -- 7.2.Functional hypotheses for anthocyanins in vegetative tissues -- 7.3.A modern spin on some old ideas -- 7.3.1.Photoprotection revisited -- 7.3.2.Anthocyanins, sugars, and autumn leaves -- 7.4.Concluding remarks -- 7.5.Acknowledgments -- 7.6.References -- 8.Plant Phenolic Compounds Controlling Leaf Movement / Yoko Nakamura -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Endogenous bioactive substance controlling nyctinasty -- 8.3.The chemical mechanism of the rhythm in nyctinasty -- 8.4.Bioorganic studies of nyctinasty using functionalized leaf-movement factors as molecular probes -- 8.4.1.Fluorescence studies on nyctinasty -- 8.4.2.Photoaffinity labeling of the target protein for the leaf-movement factor -- 8.4.3.Are leaf-movement target proteins common to the same plant genus? -- 8.5.References -- |
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Contents note continued: 9.Red Clover Derived Isoflavones: Metabolism and Physiological Effects in Cattle and Sheep and their Concentration in Milk Produced for Human Consumption / Kristiina Wahala -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Phytoestrogens in ruminant feeds -- 9.3.Red clover as a source of isoflavones -- 9.4.Metabolism of isoflavones in ruminants -- 9.5.Equol: the most important metabolite -- 9.6.Physiological effects and regulatory mechanisms of endogenous estrogens -- 9.7.Effects of phytoestrogens in sheep reproduction -- 9.7.1.Classical clover disease -- 9.7.2.Temporary subfertility -- 9.7.3.Permanent infertility -- 9.8.Effects of phytoestrogens in cattle reproduction -- 9.9.Antioxidant capacity of isoflavones -- 9.10.New outlook -- 9.11.References -- 10.Polyphenols as Biomarkers in Nutrition Research: Resveratrol Metabolome a Useful Nutritional Marker of Moderate Wine Consumption / Cristina Andres-Lacueva -- 10.1.Introduction -- |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Visible Flavonoids or Anthocyanins: From Research to Applications / Paulo Figueiredo -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Copigmentation of anthocyanins -- 1.3.Formation of inclusion complexes -- 1.4.Ion-pair formation -- 1.5.Metalloanthocyanins -- 1.6.Z-Chalcones: unexpected open cavities for the ferric cation -- 1.7.Anthocyanin biological activity -- 1.8.Some thoughts on applications -- 1.9.References -- 2.Flavonoid Chemistry of the Leguminosae / Nigel C. Veitch -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.1.1.Classification and nomenclature of the Leguminosae: a brief synopsis -- 2.2.Flavonoid structures in the Leguminosae: trends and distribution -- 2.2.1.Occurrence of 5-deoxyflavonoids in the Leguminosae -- 2.2.2.Isoflavonoids in subfamily Papilionoideae -- 2.2.2.1.Recent advances in biosynthetic studies -- 2.2.2.2.Isoflavonoid glycosides -- 2.2.2.3.Isoflavone glucosyltransferases -- 2.2.2.4.Acylated isoflavone glycosides -- |
| Summary |
"Plant phenolics are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of substances in plants. Polyphenols have a large and diverse array of beneficial effects on both plants and animals. For example they are famous as antioxidants, hormones, constituents of essential oils and natural neurotransmitters." "Chemists, biochemists, plant scientists, pharmacognosists and pharmacologists, food scientists and nutritionists will all find this book invaluable resource. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where these subjects are studied and taught should have copies on their shelves."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Polyphenols -- Research.
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| Author |
Daayf, Fouad.
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Lattanzio, Vincenzo, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2008006133 |
| ISBN |
1405158379 (alk. paper) |
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9781405158374 (alk. paper) |
