Marine Medicinal Foods

This volume on medicinal foods from the sea narrates the bioactive principles of various marine floral (vertebrate and Invertebrate), faunal (Macro and Micro algal) and microbial sources. Contributions from eminent scientists worldwide explain about the latest advance implications in the development and application of marine originated functional foods, as potential pharmaceuticals and medicines for the benefit of humankind by meeting the present nutraceutical demands.

• The latest important information for food scientists and nutritionists
• Peer-reviewed articles by a panel of respected scientists
• The go-to series since 1948

Inhalt

1. Medicinal uses of marine animals: Current state and prospects

2. Nutraceutical functionalities of polysaccharides from marine invertebrate

3. Marine byproduct phospholipids as booster of medicinal compounds

4. Characterization of bioactive peptides obtained from marine invertebrates

5. Bioactive marine peptides: nutraceutical value and novel approaches

6. Chitosan and fish collagen as biomaterials for regeneration medicine

7. Chitosan as potential marine nutraceuticals

8. Bioactive compounds from marine sponges and their symbiotic microbes: A potential source of Nutraceuticals

9. Medicinal Benefits of Marine Invertebrates: Sources for Discovering Natural Drug Candidates

10. Sea-originated cyotoxic substances

11. Secondary metabolites with new medicinal functions from marine organisms

12. Structure-function relationship of anticoagulant and antithrombotic well-defined

13. Functional lipids from marine sources and their health benefits

14 Health benefits of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid

15. Biological importance and applications of squalene and squalane

16. Development and health beneficial effects of bioactive peptides from various fish proteins

17. Marine fish derived bioactive peptides as potential antihypertensive agents

18. Bioactive sterols from marine resources and their potential benefits for human health

19. Therapeutic Drug: Healing Power of Marine Fish

20.Beneficial effect of teleost fish bone peptide as calcium supplements for bone mineralization

21. Triterpene glycosides from sea cucumbers and their biological activities

22. Chitooligosaccharides as potential nutraceuticals: Production and bioactivities

23. Biological activities of glucosamine and its related substances

24. Development of marine probiotics: prospects and approach

25.Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Microbes for Drug Discovery

26. Marine bacterial sources of bio active compound

27. Biological activities and health effects of terpenoids from marine Fungi

28. Anti- metastasis effect of anthraquinones from marine fungus, Microsporum sp.

29. Application of marine microbial enzymes in the food and pharmaceutical industries

30. Enzymatic properties of starfish phospholipase A2 and its application

31. Applications of carbohydrates from marine animal sources in the food industry

32. Applications of marine nutraceuticals in dairy products

33. Upgrading of seafood by-products: potential nutraceutical applications

34. Utilization of seafood processing by-products: medicinal applications