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MESSINA M, GUGGER E T and ALEKEL D L (2001) Soy protein, soybean isoflavones, and bone health a review of the animal and human data. In Wildman REC, Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Boca Raton, CRC Press EEC, 77-98. 

Genomic and molecular tools have made great impacts on plant biotechnology and offer potential for manipulation of carotenoids as natural colorants and also for applications in human and animal health. While microbial and other non-plant systems have been successfully used, plant modification eliminates need for expensive bioreactors and offers economically feasible opportunities for less developed nations for production of nutraceuticals and other chemical products. 

Storey, M.L., Regulatory issues of functional foods, feeds, and nutraceuticals, Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract, 34, 329, 2004. 

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. 

During recent years, squalene was found to be active for protection against various carcinogens. Therefore, an adjunctive squalene therapy in some kind of cancers happened to be the most primary use of squalene as a nutraceutical. Although there are no human trials to prove squalene role in cancer treatments, in vitro and animal experimental evidences suggest an anticancer role for this nutrient. 

Owing to the immense diversity of animals and microbes in the marine environments, and their almost untouched capacity to produce natural products, the importance for marine pharmaceutical and nutra-ceutical industries was realized on a broad basis by the scientific communities recently. This has strengthened worldwide research activities on the exploration of bioactive compounds from marine organisms for pharmaceutical use, as well as the development of other valuable products, such as enzymes, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. 

The annual productions of barley and oats average about 141 and 25 million metric tons in the world (11), respectively. Like com, most barley and oat grain is used for animal feed (about 70% of world production) (115). Today, the use of oat and barley in human foods is very limited. However, recent interests in oat- and barley-derived dietary fibers enriched in p-glucan create a great potential for functional foods, nutraceuticals, and other value-added product development from these grains. 

Interactions between nutraceuticals and prescribed medicines or even other nutraceuticals are being reported. Interactions between nutraceuticals and medicines include those experienced with melatonin, which was shown to exacerbate methamphetamine-induced neurochemical effects, again in animal studies policosanol has been shown to stimulate the antiulcer effects of... 

The properties of natural products obtained from plants, fungi, animals, and other organisms of terrestrial or marine origin have intrigued mankind for millennia, in particular those products that exert an effect (i.e., have a particular bioactivity) on humans or other organisms. Such compounds have long been used as nutraceuticals, social elixirs, intoxicants, drugs of abuse, or as therapeutics. 

Merrill, A.H. Jr. and Schmelz, E. (2001) Sphingolipids metabolism-based inhibitors of carcinogenesis produced by animals, plants, and other organisms, in Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ed R.C. Wildman), CrC Press, New York, NY, pp. 377-392. 

Keywords Agriculture Animal health Cyanine dye Dietary supplements Diindolylmethane Essential oils Havoring Indigoid dye Indole-3-carbinol Melatonin Nutraceutical Perfume Pigments Textile dyes Tryptophan... 

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