Polyphenols, Wine and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Natural Polyphenols as Drugs and Medicines: Potential Modes of Action

   1. Natural Polyphenols as Drugs and Medicines: Potential Modes of Action

      • Edwin Haslam

      Pages 1-47

3. Polyphenols and Health

   1. Gastrointestinal Effects of Complex Polyphenols from Red Wine and Tea in Experimental Animal Models

      • Piero Dolara, C. Casalini, G. Caderni, L. Giovannelli, M. Lodovici, C. De Filippo et al.

      Pages 49-66

   2. Resveratrol, a Novel Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Gene Expression

      • Andrew J. Dannenberg, K. Subbaramaiah, P. Michaluart

      Pages 67-80

   3. Trans-Resveratrol and the Liver: Deactivation of Liver Myofibroblasts and Inhibition of Tumor Cell Invasion

      • Jean Rosenbaum, S. Godichaud, V. De Lédinghen, S. Krisa, L. Dubuisson, B. Couronné et al.

      Pages 81-97

4. Polyphenols from grapes to wine

   1. Understanding the Colour of Red Wines: From Anthocyanins to Complex Pigments

      • Juan C. Rivas-Gonzalo, C. Santos-Buelga

      Pages 99-121

   2. Physiological Properties of Resveratrol Isomers in Wine: Compositional Changes during Processing

      • Rosa-Maria Lamuela-Raventós, A. I. Romero-Pérez, M. C. de la Torre-Boronat

      Pages 123-137

5. Wine and Health

   1. The French or the Mediterranean Paradox? Biological Mechanisms Potentially Involved in a Protective Effect of Wine Phenols against Clinical Manifestations of Atherothrombosis

      • Ludovic Drouet, C. Bal dit Sollier, L. Ripoll

      Pages 139-148

   2. Alcohol and Cardiovascular Diseases: Epidemiological Studies

      • Jean Ferrières

      Pages 149-175

   3. Polyphenols and Cancer Prevention

      • Vernon E. Steele, C. W. Boone, M. J. Wargovich, K. McKee, S. Sharma, B. P. Wilkinson et al.

      Pages 177-190

6. Back Matter

   Pages 191-219

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In this book, the effect of nutritional habits and wine consumption on ageing and the main degenerative diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc.) are considered through the most relevant epidemiological and pharmacological studies. Newly isolated wine polyphenols and tannins are presented and their structures and in vitro biological properties are discussed that could strongly support the hypotheses that those molecules could insure beneficial health effects.
This book will be of particular interest to people involved in problems of public health, but also in the wine industry or in wine making, as well as to physicians who are concerned by the difficult question of ageing and its related chronic diseases.

• Public Health
• alcohol
• cancer
• cancer prevention
• gene expression
• medicine
• nutrition
• phenols
• prevention
• processing
• tea

• University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France

  Catherine Chèze, Joseph Vercauteren

• University of Leiden, The Netherlands

  Robert Verpoorte

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