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Author Shankar, Sharmila.

Title Nutrition, diet and cancer / Sharmila Shankar, Rakesh K. Srivastava, editors
Edition 1
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 627 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents 880-01 Aberrant Signaling Pathways in Cancer: Modulation by the Dietary Flavonoid, Quercetin / Ramamurthi Vidya Priyadarsini and Siddavaram Nagini -- Micronutrients and Cancer: Add Spice to Your Life / Sahdeo Prasad, Subash C. Gupta and Bharat B. Aggarwal -- Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer with Cruciferous Vegetables: Role of Epigenetics / Laura M. Beaver, David E. Williams, Roderick H. Dashwood and Emily Ho -- Molecular Insight and Preclinical Perspective of Thymoquinone as Chemopreventive Agent and Therapeutic Adjunct in Cancer / Sanjeev Banerjee, Mansi Parasramka, Fazlul H. Sarkar and Ramzi M. Mohammad -- Dietary Biofactors in the Management of Cancer: Myth or Reality? / Vidushi S. Neergheen-Bhujun, K.S. Kang, O.I. Aruoma and T. Bahorun -- Nutritional Compounds as Chemopreventive Agents by Proteasome Inhibition / Kristin Landis-Piwowar, Elizabeth Smerczak, Jian Zuo and Q. Ping Dou -- STAT Signaling in Cancer Prevention / Su-Ni Tang, Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh K. Srivastava -- [gamma][delta] T Cells, Tea and Cancer / Jingwei Lu, Vincent J. Pompili and Hiranmoy Das -- Phytochemical Intakes with a Mediterranean Diet: Levels Achievable with an Exchange List Diet and Potential Biomarkers in Blood / Zora Djuric -- Plant Polyphenols and Their Role in Cancer Prevention and Chemotherapy / Sharmila Shankar, Brahma N. Singh and Rakesh K. Srivastava -- Role of Food Micro-molecules in the Prevention of Cancer / Latha Sabikhi, Alok Jha, Sudhir Kumar Tomer and Ashish Kumar Singh
880-01 Wnt/β-CateninEpigenetic Remodelling; Targeting Cancer Stem Cells; Modulation of Multidrug Resistance; DNA Microarray and Proteomic Analyses; Clinical Trials; Synergism; Adverse Effects; Conclusion and Future Perspectives; References; Chapter 2: Micronutrients and Cancer: Add Spice to Your Life; Introduction; History of Spices; Production and Consumption of Spices; Importance of Spices; Traditional Uses of Spices; Spices Against Cancer; Role of Spices in Inflammation; Role of Spices in Tumor Cell Survival; Role of Spices in Tumor Cell Proliferation
The Protective Role of Zinc in Cancer: A Potential Chemopreventive Agent / Bin Bao, Amir Ahmad, Azfar S Azmi, Zhiwei Wang and Sanjeev Banerjee, et al. -- Diet-Induced Epigenetic Changes and Cancer Prevention: A Mantra for Healthy Living / Ajay Goel and Gaurav Chaturvedi -- Western Diet-Induced Pancreatic Cancer / M. Mura Assifi and Guido Eibl -- Intracellular Signaling Network as a Prime Chemotherapy Target of Green Tea Catechin, ( -- )-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate / Brahma N. Singh, Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh K. Srivastava -- Role of Dietary Antioxidants in Cancer / C.M. Ajila and S.K. Brar -- Curcumin: Structure, Biology and Clinical Applications / Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh K. Srivastava -- Obesity, Cancer and Psychopathology: Can Vegetarian Diet Be of Help? / Vikas Kumar, Ajit Kumar Thakur and Shyam Sunder Chatterjee -- Dietary Phytochemicals as Epigenetic Modulators in Cancer / Vijay S. Thakur and Sanjay Gupta -- Modulation of the Nrf2 Signaling Pathway by Chemopreventive Dietary Phytoconstituents / Altaf S. Darvesh and Anupam Bishayee -- Role of Fish Oil from Gene Expression to Pharmacological Effect in Cancer Prevention / Malay Chatterjee, Subhadeep Das, Mary Chatterjee and Kaushik Roy -- Antioxidant Supplements: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Benefits and Risks / Goran Bjelakovic, Dimitrinka Nikolova and Christian Gluud -- Natural Antioxidants and Their Role in Cancer Prevention / Akanksha Singh, Akansha Jain, Birinchi Kumar Sarma, Alok Jha and H.B. Singh -- Dietary and Non-dietary Phytochemicals in Cancer Control / Dhanir Tailor and Rana P. Singh
Summary Annotation Covering decades of research in chemoprevention of cancer, this text reviews current knowledge of the impact of nutrition and diet in cancer prevention and therapy. Discusses nutrigenetics, nutritional epigenomics, nutritional transcriptomics and metabolomics
Analysis Biomedicine
Medicine
Nutrition
Oncology
Biochemistry
Biomedicine
Dietetics & nutrition
Medicine
Nutrition
Oncology & cancer
Oncology
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online version of the print title
Mode of access: World Wide Web
English
In Springer eBooks
Subject Cancer -- Research.
Cancer -- Nutritional aspects.
Cancer -- Prevention.
Medicine.
Nutrition.
Neoplasms -- prevention & control.
Chemoprevention.
Diet Therapy.
Diet.
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Chemoprevention.
Diet Therapy.
Diet.
Disease.
Drug Therapy.
Investigative Techniques.
Neoplasms.
Nutrition Therapy.
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Phenomena and Processes
Physiological Phenomena.
Therapeutics.
Author Shankar, Sharmila.
Srivastava, Rakesh, 1956-
SpringerLink (Online service)
LC no. 2012934829
ISBN 9400729227
9400729235
9401782962
9789400729223
9789400729230
9789401782968
OTHER TI ProQuest Ebook Central