Description:
Bioactive Polysaccharides offers a comprehensive review of the structures and bioactivities of bioactive polysaccharides isolated from traditional herbs, fungi, and seaweeds. It describes and discusses specific topics based on the authors' rich experience, including extraction technologies, practical techniques required for purification and fractionation, strategies and skills for elucidating the fine structures, in-vitro and in-vivo protocols, and methodologies for evaluating the specific bioactivities, including immune-modulating activities, anti-cancer activities, anti-oxidant activities, and others.
This unique book also discusses partial structure-functionality (bioactivities) relationships based on conformational studies. This comprehensive work can be used as a handbook to explore potential applications in foods, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceutical areas for commercial interests.
Brief description: Dr. Mingyong Xie is a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Engineering at Nanchang University, China. He is the Vice President of Nanchang University and Director of State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University. He was graduated from the University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany) in 1997 with a Ph.D. degree major in Nutrition. His research interests are focused on food safety, food chemistry and nutrition, and developing bioactive ingredients for the functional foods and nutraceutical industry. Dr. Xie is the Associate Editor of LWT-Food Science and Technology, and the Member of Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, China, Member of Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Xie authored and edited three books, holds eight patents, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers in many journals, such as J Agric Food Chem, Food Chem, Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, Anal Chim Acta, Anal Bioanal Chem, J Pharm Biomed Anal, J Chromtogr A, Talanta, Carbohydrate Polymers, J Food Eng, Food Hydrocolloids, Eur Food Res and Technol, Microchem J and Life Sciences, etc.