Therapeutic role of Ricinus communis L. and its bioactive compounds in disease prevention and treatment

In recent times, there has been growing recognition of the key role of foods and beverage in disease prevention and treatment. Rapidly increasing knowledge on nutrition, medicine, and plant biotechnology has dramatically changed the concepts about food, health and agriculture, and brought in revolution of them. Research currently underway at academic, industry and government facilities will reveal how a myriad of substances can be used as functional food components. Thus natural bioactive compounds include a broad diversity of structures and functionalities that provide an excellent pool of molecules for the production of nutraceuticals, functional foods, and food addives. This review attempts to display about research and development of functional beverages and designing functional beverages and the formula for beverage success.Keywords: designing, functional beverages, lessons learned, highlighting, research and development.

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Role of Curcumin in Disease Prevention and Treatment

Advanced Biomedical Research ◽

10.4103/abr.abr_147_16 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 38 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

ArshadHusain Rahmani ◽

MohammedA Alsahli ◽

SalahM Aly ◽

MasoodA Khan ◽

YousefH Aldebasi

Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Prevention And Treatment

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Mycoplasma bovis infections in dairy calves

Livestock ◽

10.12968/live.2019.24.5.214 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (5) ◽

pp. 214-220

Author(s):

Colin Mason

Keyword(s):

Disease Prevention ◽

Disease Surveillance ◽

Asymptomatic Carrier ◽

Dairy Calves ◽

Mycoplasma Bovis ◽

Expert Group ◽

Disease States ◽

Subclinical Disease ◽

Prevention And Treatment

The role of Mycoplasma bovis as a cause of pneumonia, arthritis, conjunctivitis and otitis media in calves, particularly milk fed dairy calves, is well established. The organism can readily be identified from the upper and lower respiratory tracts of both healthy and diseased calves suggesting that asymptomatic carrier or subclinical disease states within calf populations can also occur. Reports from cattle practitioners and disease surveillance data would suggest that the incidence of M. bovis-associated disease in calves is increasing ( APHA Surveillance focus 2018 ). There is much that we do not know about M. bovis infections ( UK Cattle Expert Group, 2018 ). This article will focus on some of what we do know about the organism, the associated diseases and their pathogenesis in milk fed dairy calves and how this knowledge can be best applied for disease prevention and treatment.

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Role of conventional and biotechnological approaches in genetic improvement of castor (Ricinus communis L.)

Industrial Crops and Products ◽

10.1016/j.indcrop.2015.05.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 74 ◽

pp. 55-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Amritpal S. Singh ◽

Swati Kumari ◽

Arpan R. Modi ◽

Bhavesh B. Gajera ◽

Subhash Narayanan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Genetic Improvement ◽

Ricinus Communis ◽

Ricinus Communis L

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Elucidation of new vitamin K function aiming at application to cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment

Impact ◽

10.21820/23987073.2021.5.37 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (5) ◽

pp. 37-39

Author(s):

Kimie Nakagawa

Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Disease Prevention ◽

Vitamin K ◽

Human Body ◽

Physiological Function ◽

Specific Gene ◽

Tissue Specific ◽

Prevention And Treatment

Although Vitamin K is known to be required by the human body for blood clotting and bone metabolism, there remain many unknowns about this group of vitamins and there is a lack of biochemical research on vitamin K. Limitations in knowledge about vitamin k may mean that decisions about the vitamin's uptake and bone health may not be optimal. Professor Kimie Nakagawa Laboratory of Hygienic Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, is performing detailed investigations on vitamin K to shed light on its specific functions in the human body and contribute to advancements in disease prevention and treatment, including cardiovascular disease. Her studies centre on UBIAD1 (UbiA prenyltransferase domain containing protein 1) and MK-4 (menaquinone-4). She is seeking to elucidate the role of MK-4 in the human body and reveal the unknown functions of UBIAD1. Nakagawa and the teams are doing so using UBIAD1 tissue-specific gene-deficient mice, which they are analysing in order to clarify the significance of biosynthesis of MK-4 in vivo and unravel the role of UBIAD1 and MK-4 in each tissue. Specific research goals for Nakagawa are to elucidate vitamin K conversion mechanisms, establish improved understanding of the physiological function of the vitamin, identify vitamin K converting enzymes and learn and explain more about the physiological function of this enzyme. The team made an important discovery in that UBIAD1 is the enzyme responsible for the conversion of vitamin k to MK-4 and the researchers will continue to build on this groundbreaking finding.

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