Editors:
- First book to discuss the potential of Curcumin and its medicinal uses
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 595)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Curcumin is derived from the root of the plant Curcuma longa (also called turmeric) and its medicinal uses have been described for over 5000 years. More than 1500 papers published within last half a century has revealed that curcumin has a potential in the treatment of wide variety of inflammatory diseases including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, Alzheimer, psoriasis etc, through modulation of numerous molecular targets. This is the first monograph to deal specifically with this subject.
Editors and Affiliations
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Ransom Horne, Jr., Professor of Cancer Research Professor of Cancer Medicine (Biochemistry)and Chief, Cytokine Research Section Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,, USA
Bharat B. Aggarwal
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Chief and Professor National Research Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Young-Joon Surh
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Assistant Professor Department of Biology, Texas Southern University, Houston, USA
Shishir Shishodia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Uses of Curcumin in Health and Disease
Editors: Bharat B. Aggarwal, Young-Joon Surh, Shishir Shishodia
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46401-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-46400-8Published: 18 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4282-1Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-46401-5Published: 06 August 2007
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 490
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Pharmacology/Toxicology