Activation and Detoxification Enzymes: Functions and Implications

di Chang-Hwei Chen (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2024

This book discusses the many advances in the understanding of the functions and implications of activation and detoxification enzymes. This organized, concise overview will meet the needs of those who are initially exposed to this important subject, particularly for students and researchers in the areas of biomedical sciences, biochemistry, nutrition, pharmacology, and chemistry.  The book will also be valuable to advanced researchers.  The book discusses subjects associated with foreign-compound-metabolizing enzymes with emphasis on biochemical aspects, including lipophilic foreign compounds, activation and detoxification enzymes, metabolic enzyme catalytic properties, reactive metabolic intermediates, biomedical and biochemical effects, genetic polymorphisms, enzyme inducibility, enzyme modulation for health benefits, dietary-related enzyme modulators, and structural characteristics of enzyme inducers.  This new edition is updated throughout andfeatures completely new chapters on Oxidative and Electrophilic Stresses, Metabolite- Mediated Disease Conditions, and Defense Mechanism: Nrf2-ARE Pathway. 

• Autore: Chang-Hwei Chen
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 251 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783031552861

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