The Nature of Nutraceuticals

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India. He has more than 11 years of research and nine years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by The National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised one PhD and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students for their research work. Dr. Kesharwani has authored over 49 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and 14 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented many papers at various national and international conferences. He has been a recipient of a Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and worked at NIT Warangal for two semesters. Prashant Kumar, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Kalinga University, Raipur, C.G., India. He graduated from the M.J.P. Rohilkhand University in Bareilly, India, with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S.). From the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Dr. Prashant Kumar earned his MTech in bioinformatics. He earned his PhD in bioinformatics from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in Allahabad, India. Numerous research articles and book chapters written by Dr. Prashant Kumar have been published in reputable national and international publications. He has worked as an assistant professor for three years. His areas of interest include dentistry, structural bioinformatics, molecular dynamic simulations, and computational drug design. Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm, is working as Associate Professor in the Faculty of B. Pharmacy at CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has supervised more than 25 UG students for their research work, has published 31 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, one patent, 50 book chapters, three co-authored books, and 40 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Dr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. He received his PhD degree from IKG Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Dr. Keservani is a life member of the Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER). His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.

PART I: NUTRACEUTICAL HISTORY AND HUMAN HEALTH 1. A Brief History of Nutraceuticals 2. Nutraceuticals and Human Health 3. Role of Microbial Nutraceutical in Promoting Human Health 4. Role of Nutraceutical Fruits in Gut-Related Diseases PART II: NANOTECHNOLOGY-BASED NUTRACEUTICALS 5. Role of Nanotechnology in Nutraceuticals 6. Nanotechnology-Based Smart Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers for Nutraceutical Delivery 7. Uses of Nanoparticulate Delivery System in Nutraceuticals PART III: PROPERTIES OF IMMUNOBOOSTERS 8. Nutraceuticals as Immunomodulators 9. Role of Nutraceuticals as Antioxidants PART IV: MISCELEANEOUS AND NATURALLY OCCURRING NUTRACEUTICALS 10.Curcumin as a Nutraceutical: The Golden Indian Saffrons 11. A Nutraceutical Approach for Metabolic Syndrome 12. Oligosaccharides as Nutraceuticals 13. Role of Nutraceuticals in Oral Health 14. Traditional Herbal Approaches Used for Neurological Disorders 15. Medicinal Micronutrients and Macronutrients 16. Overview and History of Natural Products