Medicines Foods

In the United States all other processes have been completely phased out and virtually all benzoic acid is manufactured by the continuous hquid-phase air oxidation of toluene. In the late 1950s and the early 1960s both Dow Chemical and Snia Viscosa constmcted faciUties for Hquid-phase toluene oxidation because of large requirements for benzoic acid in the production of phenol and caprolactam. Benzoic acid, its salts, and esters are very useful and find appHcation in medicinals, food and industrial preservatives, cosmetics, resins, plasticizers, dyestuffs, and fibers. 

Drug Stability Guidelines, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, Fourth Revision, 1990, pp. 2-23. 

Keeler, R.F. and Young, S. (1986). When ewes ingest poisonous plants The teratogenic effects. Veterinary Medicine, Food Animal Practice, May, 449-A54. 

Hydrocarbons are used as fuels and as the basic source of many other chemical compounds. The production of coke from coal also produces by-products known as coal-tars, which are used in the pharmaceutical, dye, food, and other industries. The refining of crude oil produces gasoline and many other fractions of the crude oil as well as petrochemical by-products. The range of useful products we derive from crude oil is very broad. These products not only power our automobiles, trucks, trains, and planes, but also provide the base for many of our medicines, foods, and numerous other essential products. (See the section of the book titled Atomic Structure for more on the chemistry of hydrocarbons.)... 

A peptide is essentially comprised of L-amino acid residues, and the peptide backbone may be critical to provide physicochemical and functional properties. Diverse functionalities induced by peptides in natural protein hydrolysates are being received with much interest in food industries or alternative-medicinal food sciences. The latest year s researches... 

Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is in worldwide, daily use in laboratories in many fields of chemistry, medicine, food science, and manufacturing and is perhaps the most commonly used technology for detection of explosives at the present time. Its use in forensic laboratories is well known. In fact, it is so well established that there is a journal specializing in IMS [1], A recent book... 

Chapter 1 familiarizes the readers with the prospects of marine organism-derived substances in relation to medicinal value. It covers the present and future prospects of marine organisms. Chapters 2-11 describe the sources of marine bioactives. Individual chapters cover the importance and values of some frequently used marine animal species. Chapters 12-23, cover the medicinal effects of bioactives from marine animals. Chapters 24-29 discuss the value of microbes as medicinal foods. Finally, Chapters 30-32, discusses the applications of marine animals-derived materials in medicinal and nutraceutical industries in relation to human health. 

Hence, the value of the marine animals in terms of medicinal and nutraceutical applications has to be brought in such a manner that the consumption of frequently available marine animals can be directed for best human diet practices. In the current chapter, the role of various marine animals as medicinal foods has been covered and in addition, the possible recommendation of utilizing these marine animals in regular diet has been advised toward the health benefits of human kind. 

TABLE 1.1 Few marine species that are consumed and proposed as medicinal food... 

Shahidi, F., Miraliakbari, H. (2005). Omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease. Part 2. Health effects of omega-3 fatty acids in autoimmune diseases, mental health, and gene expression. Journal of Medicinal Food, 8, 133-148. 

Institute of Medicine, Food Nutrition Board Staff Dietary Reference Intakes Thtamin, Rtbofiavm. Niacin. Vitamin B6, Folate. Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid. Biotin, and Choline, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998. 

NVP, 246, is the intermediate in the production of PVP (polyvinylpyrrolidinone)257 widely employed in the pharmaceutical, medicinal, food and beverage industries, and the small quantities (0.2% or less) of NVP contained as impurity in PVP might present a certain risk for the general population. Studies on the in vivo disposition of NVP have therefore been undertaken and 246 has been synthesized258 (equation 135). [3,4-3H]-NVP and [4-3H]-NVP have been prepared previously in low yields259 because the volatility of NVP itself and of the vinyl acetate had not been controlled properly in the synthetic and... 

Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board 2002. Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids , pp. 8-97. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 

Setchell, K.D.R., Childress, C., Zimmer-Nechemias, L., and Cai, J. 1999. Method for measurement of dietary secoisolariciresinol using HPLC with multichannel electrochemical detection. J. Medicinal Food , 193-198. 

Source Lycopene content of tomato products Its stability, bioavailability and in vivo antioxidant properties. Reprinted from Journal of Medicinal Food. 2001 4, pp. 9-15 by permission of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers. 

FIG. 13 Effect of lycopene on the proliferation of SaOS-2 cells. Compared with respective vehicle control of the same dilution a = p < 0.05, b = p < 0.001, c=p < 0.005 (Kim et al., 2003). (Lycopene II - Effect on osteoblasts The carotenoid lycopene stimulates cell proliferations and alkaline phosphotase activity of SaOS-2 cells. Reprinted from Journal of Medicinal Food. 2003 6, pp. 79-86 by permission of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers.)... 

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