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This book highlights how terpenoids act as biological messengers and can be used as medicine against liver disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, and inflammatory diseases. It emphasizes the metabolic engineering approach of terpenoids production and their toxicity.

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Author:   Dijendra Nath Roy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Weight:   0.834kg
ISBN:  

9780815370666

ISBN 10:   0815370660
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   25 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Brief History of Terpenoids Milena Campelo Freitas de Lima, Larissa Sousa da Silva, Larissa Silveira Moreira Wiedemann, Valdir F. da Veiga Junior Chapter 2 Bioengineering Approach on Terpenoids Production Niha Dhar and Sarojam Rajani Chapter 3 Terpenoids: The Biological Key Molecules Moumita Majumdar, Dijendra Nath Roy Chapter 4 Terpenoids In Treatment Of Liver Disease Sujan Chatterjee, Debajyoti Patra, Pujita Ghosh, Akash Prasad, Kaustav Dutta Chowdhury Chapter 5 Terpenoids In Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Disease Ayantika Pal, Sumantra Das Chapter 6 Terpenoids In Treatment Of Immunological Disease Avik Sarkar and Surajit Bhattacharjee Chapter 7 Terpenoids In Cancer Treatment Arghya Adhikary, Shaswati Das and Mousumi Bhattacharjee Chapter 8 Terpenoids Against Infectious Diseases Sanhita Ghosh, Kamalika Roy and Chiranjib Pal Chapter 9 Terpenoids Against Cardiovascular Diseases F. Mahomoodally and P. Ramjuttun Chapter 10 Toxicity Of Terpenoids In Human Health Ritobrata Goswami; Dijendra Nath Roy

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Dr. Dijendra Nath Roy, PhD, has been currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Bio Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, since 2013. He received professional bachelor degrees from the Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal University of Technology (B.Tech., 2005), and the Doctor of Philosophy from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology [Ph.D. in Bio Engineering, 2011]. Dr. Roy carried out postdoctoral research training at the National University of Singapore, Singapore (2011-2012) and after that, he has been appointed in present position. Dr. Roy is a member of the numerous professional bodies including Indian Science Congress Association, Govt. of India and The Institution of Engineers (India). In addition, Dr. Roy has already earned several project grants from different external funding agencies in India to carry out research on product development, especially drug development. In 2015, he was honoured with prestigious young scientist award from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to implement his research idea into the capacity of laboratory. He is interested to publish this book from CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA for them, those who are engaged actively in drug development.

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