دانلود کتاب گیاهان و فیتومولکول ها برای تعدیل ایمنی – روندها و پیشرفت های اخیر

Plants have always been part of the human diet and/or survival owing to its myriad of health benefits. Plants have profound effects on the health and well-being of humans attributed to its complex chemical and diverse makeup. Medicinal plants have been known to biosynthesize and accumulate a wide array of metabolites belonging to different chemical categories and classes. These natural phytochemicals have immense diversity and uniqueness of molecules. Molecules belonging to phenylpropanoids, terpenoids, steroids, alkaloids, tannins, etc., possess a variety of pharmacological activities. Besides, many of these bioactives exert effects even when taken as part of diet, supplements, and/or as traditional herbal medicine. At a time when the whole world has suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic that is caused by novel coronaviruses emergence, it is strongly believed that this and other viruses affect the human body by challenging the immune system. Because of that our body fails to combat the initial attack of viruses or other pathogens leading to a disease and/or even death. Thus, if innate immunity remains strong enough, disease incidences and conception can be controlled to a great extent. The concept of this book is to capitalize upon plants which possess immunomodulation properties and hence can boost the immune system. There is a great need at present as well as in future since immunomodulation processes will always be relevant to address various emerging as well as existing diseases in humans. Better immune system will itself trigger cellular responses for neutralizing and combating the onset of disease conditions. Studies have reported a myriad of medicinal plants, their extracts, or isolated molecules which have shown potential medicinal immunomodulatory properties. Establishing such plants along with their cultivation, propagation, standardization, and bioactive characterization using modern biochemical technologies, i.e., metabolomics in relation to genomics will pave the way for a better understanding of these immune enhancer biomolecule production and moreover the scientific knowledge about their effects. This book will provide the state of the art on scientific knowledge, activities, and mechanisms and leads in the area of medicinal plants and phytochemicals with immunomodulation properties.