Seeds: Anti-Proliferative Storehouse for Bioactive Secondary Metabolites

This book presents extensive and up-to-date information on the anti-proliferative properties of various plant seeds for their applicationin pharmaceutical industry and medicinal research. This information is imperative for understanding and developing high quality products from the seeds.The book provides insights about anticancer and antitumour activities present in seeds. Different chapters cover the traditional knowledge as well as recent innovations in various seeds, such as prune, pumpkin, grape fruit, sesame, sunflower, bitter gourd, papaya, mango, apple, black plum, cumin, water melon, musk melon, cotton, carambola, pear, cardamon, moringa, wallich, Chinese cabbage, pistachio, etc. and their bioactivities for the applications in cancer and malignancy proliferation. The book introduces the readers to seed as a bioactive compound, and delineates the various health effects. It further explains the relation between the different metabolites and their effect on cell proliferation. Finally the book goes on to explain different seeds and their specific anti-cancer properties.

This book is useful for students and researchers of pharmacology, botany and cancer research. It also caters to industry experts in pharmaceutical sciences.

Dr. DilipKumar Pal (M. Pharm, Ph.D, F.I.C., Chartered Chemist, Post Doct. in Australia) is an associate professor, at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidash Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India. He received his master and PhD degree from Jadavpur Universty, Kolkata. He completed his post-doctoral research as ＂Endeavour research fellow＂ in University of Sydney, Australia. His areas of research interest include ＂Phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation of indigenous plants＂ and ’Natural Biopolymers’. He has published 175 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, and contributed 117 abstracts in different national and international conferences.He has written 2 books and 90 book chapters and edited 09 books. His research publications have acquired a highly remarkable cited record in Scopus and Google Scholar(H-Index: 53; i-10-index 129, citation 11624 till date). Dr. Pal in his 23 years research-oriented teaching profession received 13 prestigious national and international professional awards. He has guided 10 Ph. D and 43 master students for their dissertation thesis. He is the reviewer and Editorial Board member of 27 and 29 scientific journals, respectively. Dr Pal has been working as the Editor-in-Chief of one research journal also. He is the member and life member of many professional organizations. Recently, Recently, Dr Pal has been included in World’s top 2 % Indian Scientist (Pharmacy and Pharmacology) (as released by Stanford University, USA