Preclinic Effects of Stilbenes

Predinical research on cells, organs, and animals using stilbenes occupy a great deal of attention as a necessary step for further clinical investigation and invention of new drugs. Data on cancer and other chemopreventive activities of resveratrol (RES) and other stilbenes were summarized in reviews [1-22]. 

In this chapter, we present a number of recent developments in this boundless 

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Both the theoretical materials and the experimental data presented in this book dearly demonstrate the significant progress that has recently been made in the application of stilbenes in chemistry, photochemistry, photophysics, materials sdence, biochemistry, biomedicine, and clinical research. This progress resulted to a great extent from interdisciplinary cooperation. Advances in synthetic chemistry that provided researchers in these areas with a wide assortment of stilbenes paved the way for their multiple applications in basic and applied research. Modifications of traditional physical techniques and advanced methods such as nano-, pico-, femtosecond absorption, fluorescence and vibrational time-resolved spectroscopy, and theoretical approaches to the analysis of experimental data ensure profound photophysical and photochemical investigations in the area. Experts in biochemistry, biomedicine, and medicine effectively used natural and synthetic stilbenes in biochemical and preclinical studies and recenfly in clinical trials. 

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