Bioactive Essential Oils and Cancer (eBook)

Damião Pergentino de Sousa is Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University, Paraiba, Brazil. He received his Master's degree in Natural Products (Pharmacology and Chemistry) from the Federal University of Paraíba. He received his PhD (in Organic Chemistry) from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. His current research is mainly focused on the medicinal chemistry studies applied to natural products and synthetic derivatives with potential therapeutic use. Professor de Sousa is a member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals with a broad range of scientific fields, such as natural products, organic synthesis, pharmacology, and biotechnology. He is also a consultant of funding agencies of scientific research and has scientific collaboration with several research groups throughout the world. He has published extensively in the field of natural products.

AcknowledgementsPrefaceDedicationList of ContributorsChapter 1: Principles of cancer pathogenesis and therapy: a brief overviewRosane Borges Dias, Ludmila de Faro Valverde, Clarissa Araújo Gurgel Rocha and Daniel Pereira Bezerra Chapter 2: Essential Oils ChemistryMónica Rocha Zuzarte and Lígia Maria Ribeiro Salgueiro Chapter 3: Pharmacobotanical Aspects of Aromatic PlantsIonaldo José Lima Diniz Basílio, Nathalia Diniz Araujo and Rafael Costa Silva Chapter 4: Essential oils as Raw Materials in the Synthesis of Anticancer DrugsTimothy John Brocksom, Kleber Thiago de Oliveira, Marco Antonio Barbosa Ferreira and Bruno Moraes Servilha Chapter 5: Antitumor Essential Oils: Progress in Medicinal ChemistrySócrates Cabral de Holanda Cavalcanti, Rafael dos Reis Barreto de Oliveira and Damião Pergentino de Sousa Chapter 6: Clinical Advances on Anticancer Essential OilsAmmad Ahmad Farooqi, Rubina Sohail, Sundas Fayyaz, Iryna Shatynska-Mytsyk Chapter 7: Antitumor Essential OilsHemerson Iury Ferreira Magalhães and Élida Batista Vieira de Sousa Chapter 8: Antitumor MonoterpenesJanaina Fernandes Chapter 9: Sesquiterpenes from Essential Oils with Promising Antitumor PropertiesFayaz Malik and Suresh Kumar Chapter 10: Antitumor PhenylpropanoidsMiriam Teresa Paz Lopes, Dalton Dittz Júnior and Fernanda de Oliveira Lemos Chapter 11: Antitumor Essential Oils: Synergy and Chemotherapeutic InteractionsRogerio Correa Peres, Carolina Foot Gomes de Moura, Flavia Andressa Pidone Ribeiro and Daniel Araki Ribeiro Chapter 12: Dietary Essential Oils and Cancer chemopreventive potentialThomas Prates Ong Chapter 13: Cancer and aromatherapy: a view of how the use of essential oils applies to palliative careRita de Cássia da Silveira e Sá Chapter 14: Perillyl Alcohol: A Pharmacotherapeutic ReportClovis Orlando da Fonseca and Thereza Quirico-Santos Chapter 15: Conclusion and Future PerspectivesDamião Pergentino de Sousa