Overview
Covers the various physiological effects of those components for possible use as health foods or drugs
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview of Aloe study
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The history of Aloe
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Chemical components of Aloe and its analysis
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Quality control and standardization of Aloe products
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Perspective of industrial application of Aloe vera
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About this book
New Perspectives on Aloe will cover research studies of aloe by the CAP (Creation Aloe Pharmaceuticals) team, which studied various aspects of aloe over a period of more than 10 years. The team was organized into two groups: the isolation and analysis group, which purified many components in terms of low molecular weight compounds, carbohydrates, proteins present in aloe, and the assay group, which determined the efficacy of those components. This type of target-oriented, organized research provides a model of how to conduct multidisciplinary research.
The contents include a brief introduction of aloe, isolation, purification, and structural analysis of components, and various physiological effects of those components for possible use as health foods or drugs. Various functions identified were wound healing, angiogenesis, anti-allergy, skin whitening, stimulation of cell proliferation such as liver or kidney, protection against nephrotoxicity, and immune modulation. Moreover, we suggest standardization and quality control procedures for manufacturing raw aloe, and how to develop related products for successful application of aloe. This is important in Korea because last year the Korean government listed aloe as a health food for which the government establishes regulatory laws. Therefore, many scientists in Korea who are interested in studying health foods would be interested in this kind of text. Other major fields related to this kind of research will be medicine, biology, pharmaceutics, natural products and analytics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Aloe
Editors: Young In Park, Seung Ki Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34636-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-31799-1Published: 19 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4069-8Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-34636-6Published: 27 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 200
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology