Stefan A. Hulea

An Introduction to Vitamins, Minerals and Oxidative Stress

The Role of Micronutrients and Reactive Oxygen Species in Normal and Pathological Processes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents in simple and concise terms the biological functions of vitamins and minerals, what makes them essential to life and why they must be replenished daily from food. The best food sources for these micronutrients and the daily recommended intakes of vitamins and minerals are also presented. Information on these important micronutrients is all presented in one place (Part I) as opposed to the current text books where it is scattered throughout the text, making its retrieval tedious and time-consuming. In addition, the trace elements get an adequate coverage in contrast to the current texts. The second part introduces the reader to the concept of oxidative stress and the role of free radicals (mainly of oxygen and nitrogen) in the regulation of several biological processes like cellular redox homeostasis, programmed cell death and aging as well as their involvement in many pathological conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. Readers will also learn how reactive molecular species are generated, what their targets are and how cells defend themselves against the deleterious action of free radicals. Despite the growing interest in the research of free radicals involvement in human pathology the current text books treat the subject only sparingly. Our text addresses this issue by giving the topic the attention it deserves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Universal Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781599429465
• ISBN-10: 1599429462
• Artikelnr.: 25629821

Autorenporträt

Dr. Hulea had a long and distinguished career as a biochemist working in basic and applied biomedical research as well as in academia (https://biological-oxidation.com/About.htm). His research interests included among others, microbial nucleic acids metabolism, the role of complex carbohydrate-binding proteins (lectins) as mediators of host-pathogen interactions, oxidative stress and antioxidant mechanisms in plant and animal cells. In the field of applied research Dr. Hulea was involved in the early 1980s in the development of a human colostrum based product that was successfully used in the treatment of respiratory and digestive tract infections in infants and small children. He also took part in the development of a sea buckthorn-based extract that was used with very good results in the treatment of severe skin burns as well as some skin disorders. In the early 1990s he was a visiting scholar in the laboratory of Late Professor Fred A. Kummerow, who was a pioneer scientist in the research of trans fatty acids' involvement in atherosclerosis. Dr. Hulea holds a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest, Romania and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London, UK.