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Phytonutrients of Nutraceutical Importance: Exploring Antimicrobial, Antiproliferative, and Antioxidant Activities

Phytonutrients of Nutraceutical Importance: Exploring Antimicrobial, Antiproliferative, and Antioxidant Activities

Marcus Vinícius Dias-Souza, Renan Martins dos Santos
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781522517627|ISBN10: 1522517626|EISBN13: 9781522517634
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1762-7.ch020
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Dias-Souza, Marcus Vinícius, and Renan Martins dos Santos. "Phytonutrients of Nutraceutical Importance: Exploring Antimicrobial, Antiproliferative, and Antioxidant Activities." Pharmaceutical Sciences: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 521-550. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1762-7.ch020

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Dias-Souza, M. V. & Martins dos Santos, R. (2017). Phytonutrients of Nutraceutical Importance: Exploring Antimicrobial, Antiproliferative, and Antioxidant Activities. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Pharmaceutical Sciences: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 521-550). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1762-7.ch020

Chicago

Dias-Souza, Marcus Vinícius, and Renan Martins dos Santos. "Phytonutrients of Nutraceutical Importance: Exploring Antimicrobial, Antiproliferative, and Antioxidant Activities." In Pharmaceutical Sciences: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 521-550. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1762-7.ch020

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Abstract

Phytotherapy re-emerged in the latest years as a healing system accepted and spread worldwide, and different molecules have been investigated due to their benefits to health. Nutraceutical formulations, which allow the intake of phytonutrients (generally in low levels in plant food) in concentrations that are enough to achieve the desired outcomes, represent feasible alternatives to improve general health and to prevent and treat varied diseases. Notwithstanding the incompleteness of an evidence-based clinical use of nutraceuticals, many questions remain unanswered regarding their global effects in humans and animals. Thus, the aim of this chapter is to provide recent evidence on chemical and pharmacological features of the main phytonutrients explored in nutraceutical formulations, focusing antimicrobial, antioxidant and antiproliferative potentials. Also, some insights on drug-phytonutrients interactions will be discussed.

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