The molecular targets and therapeutic uses of curcumin in health and disease / Bharat B. Aggarwal, Young-Joon Surh, Shishir Shishodia, editors.

Curcumin is derived from the root of the plant Curcuma longa (also called turmeric) and its medicinal uses have been described for over 5000 years. More than 1500 papers published within last half a century has revealed that curcumin has a potential in the treatment of wide variety of inflammatory d...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Aggarwal, Bharat B., 1950-, Surh, Young-Joon, Shishodia, Shishir
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer, ©2007.
Series:Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 595.
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Table of Contents:
  • Curcumin: the Indian solid gold / Bharat B. Aggarwal [and others]
  • Highly active anticancer curcumin and analogues / Cara A. Mosley, Dennis C. Liotta, and James P. Snyder
  • Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of curcumin / Venugopal P. Menon and Adluri Ram Sudheer
  • Modulation of transcription factors by curcumin / Shishir Shishodia, Tulika Singh, and Madan M. Chaturvedi
  • Cancer chemopreventive effects of curcumin / Young-Joon Surh and Kyung-Soo Chun
  • Antitumor, anti-invasion, and antimetastatic effects of curcumin / Girija Kuttan [and others]
  • Curcumin as an inhibitor of angiogenesis / Sulochana S. Bhandarkar and Jack L. Arbiser
  • Neuroprotective effects of curcumin / Greg M. Cole, Bruce Teter, and Sally A. Frautschy
  • Regulation of COX and LOX by curcumin / Chinthalapally V. Rao
  • Molecular targets of curcumin / Jen-Kun Lin
  • Cell growth regulation / Devarajan Karunagaran, Jeena Joseph, and Thankayyan R. Santhosh Kumar
  • Curcumin as chemosensitizer / Pornngarm Limtrakul
  • Radioprotection and radiosensitization by curcumin / Ganesh C. Jagetia
  • Immunomodulation by curcumin / Subhash C. Gautam, Xiaohua Gao, and Scott Dulchavsky
  • Beneficial role of curcumin in skin diseases / Rajesh L. Thangapazham, Anuj Sharma, and Radha K. Maheshwari
  • Cardioprotective effects of curcumin / Sumitra Miriyala, Manikandan Panchatcharam, and Puvanakrishnan Rengarajulu
  • Protection from acute and chronic lung diseases by curcumin / Narayanan Venkatesan, Durairaj Punithavathi, and Mary Babu
  • Nephroprotective and hepatoprotective effects of curcuminoids / Toshihiko Osawa
  • Curcumin and autoimmune disease / John J. Bright
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of curcumin / Ricky A. Sharma, William P. Steward, and Andreas J. Gescher
  • Clinical studies with curcumin / Chih-Hung Hsu and Ann-Lii Cheng.