Therapeutic Mushrooms for Diabetes Mellitus Current Evidences and Future Scope This new book provides valuable insight into the role of mushrooms in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Mushrooms are enriched with various bioactive constituents with antidiabetic efficacy such as polysaccharides terpenes sterols etc. The extracts as well as bioactive constituents through different mechanisms exhibit antidiabetic action. Medicinal mushrooms such as Ganoderma lucidum Innotus obliquus Grifola frondosa Phellinus species etc. are considered in this volume for their beneficial qualities toward the mitigation of the disease. The volume considers mushroom powders mushroom extracts and their bioactive components for the management of diabetic syndrome. It presents various in vitro in vivo and clinical studies on lowering hyperglycemia and other diabetes associated with secondary abnormalities as well as provides information regarding mushroom-based antidiabetic market products. | Therapeutic Mushrooms for Diabetes Mellitus Current Evidences and Future Scope GBP 139.00 1
Nanotechnology Applications in Agricultural and Bioprocess Engineering Farm to Table This new volume looks at new research and advances in the use of nanotechnology applications in agricultural and bioprocess engineering. The first section deals with the impact of nanotechnology in agricultural engineering looking at the role of nanomaterials in plant growth and nutrition. It goes on to discuss specific methods and processes in the development of food products nutraceuticals and therapeutics. This includes nanotechnological methods for iron fortification of dairy food for processing and preservation of meat and meat products for selective targeting of cancer and more. The book then discusses the role of nanotechnology in bioprocessing such as for biofuel production for wastewater treatment and as enzymatic nanoparticles for fabrication processes. | Nanotechnology Applications in Agricultural and Bioprocess Engineering Farm to Table GBP 124.00 1