Flavonoids as Nutraceuticals

Flavonoids are well-known plant metabolites that have extraordinary properties that can be used for treating health issues. The pharmaceutical importance of flavonoids is due to their anti-depressant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant capacities. They are also of great importance when it comes to neuroprotection, cardiovascular disorders, and many types of cancer. Flavonoids are also easily available and produce less harmful side effects than some conventional therapeutics.

This new volume examines the growing use of flavonoids for prevention and treatment of diseases and discusses their beneficial mechanisms. Chapters in the volume address diverse uses as anti-aging tools, as anti-inflammatory agents, for treating pregnancy-induced disorders, as a promising tool to combat infection of Covid-19, etc. The book explores their specific therapeutic antiviral potentials, the gene expression by flavonoids, and the role of flavonoids in agriculture.

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, has more than 10 years of research and eight years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by The National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised PhD, postgraduate, and undergraduate students for their research work and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and 11 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented many papers in various national and international conferences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India, and worked at NIT Warangal. He has been a recipient of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences.

Deepika Saini, PhD, is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Chamanlal Mahavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. She has teaching experience of about five years. She has also worked as an adjunct faculty member in the Natural Science Department of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She has published over 14 papers in national and international seminars and conferences and has also attended many workshops. She has also been awarded a Best Teacher Award 2020 by the Society of Research in Biological Studies. Dr. Saini serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several international and national journals, including American Journal of Life Sciences, International Journal of Zoology Studies, International Journal of Biological Studies, among others. She has successfully edited four books. During the pandemic in 2020, she has organized webinars with reputed institutes, such as the Zoological Survey of lndia and the Botanical Survey of India. She has organized two national conferences funded by the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology, Dehradun and Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Dehradun, India.

Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is a Faculty of B. Pharmacy, CSM Group of Institutions, Allahabad, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has published 31 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, 43 book chapters, three co-authored books, and 18 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Mr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (Uttarakhand), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. Mr. Keservani is a life member of Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER). His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.

Anil Kumar Sharma, PhD, MPharm, is an expert in pharmaceutics with a background in drug delivery. He has taught these subjects for nearly 10 years at universities such as the Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, University of Delhi, and School of Medical and Allied Sciences, G D Goenka University, India. Prior to taking up his current role in 2018, Dr. Sharma served in academic positions such as Lecturer (Pharmaceutics), Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, University of Delhi, India. He has published over 28 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in both national and international journals as well many book chapters and several edited books. He holds a PhD (Pharmaceutical Sciences) from the University of Delhi; MPharmacy (Pharmaceutics) from the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya; and BPharmacy from the University of Rajasthan.