[...]... Brassica napusa Swede Leaf rape Brassica carinatab Glucosinolates in Brassica and Cancer 7 8 Bioactive Foods and Extracts (4-pentenyl) and their hydroxylated forms, progoitrin and gluconapoleiferin (2-hydroxy-4-pentenyl), respectively In turnip roots, the predominant glucosinolates found by Sones et al (1984) were progoitrin and gluconasturtiin (2-phenylethyl), while gluconapin has been identified as... et al (2007b) Erucin ITC (MTBITC) Breast Liver Lung Human Human Rats Wang et al (2005) Lamy and Mersch-Sundermann (2009) Hanlon et al (2009) continued 12 Bioactive Foods and Extracts TABLE 1.3 (continued) Bioactive Glucosinolate Derivatives Related to Cancer Prevention and Classified into Isothiocyanates, Indole and Nitrile Compounds Examples of Recent Studies Relating These Compounds with Different Types... belongs to the Brassicaceae family and, economically speaking, it is the most important genus within the tribe Brassiceae, containing 37 different species The taxonomy of this genus is complex Gómez-Campo (1999) presented a complete classification of the genus 3 4 Bioactive Foods and Extracts Brassica and its allied genera, indicating subgenera, sections, species and subspecies, later updated by the... manuscripts and the publisher was critical to the successful completion of the book and is much appreciated Her daily responses to queries and collection of manuscripts and documents were extremely helpful Support for her work was graciously provided by Elwood Richard, treasurer of the National Health Research Institute in support of its mission to communicate to scientists about bioactive foods and dietary... Xiao et al (2006); Xiao and Shing, (2007) Benzyl ITC (BITC) Breast Colon Leukemia Liver Lung Pancreatic Prostate Human Human Human Human Human, mice Human Human Xiao et al (2008) Visanji et al (2004) Zhang et al (2003b); Basu and Haldar, (2008) Hwang and Lee (2008) Wattenberg (1987); Kuang and Chen (2004) Zhang et al (2006a); Basu and Haldar (2008); Sahu and Srivastava (2009) Basu and Haldar (2008) Iberin... Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti Department of Pediatrics University of Milan Milan, Italy Section I Herbal Medicines and Bioactive Foods and Cancer Treatment 1 Glucosinolates in Brassica and Cancer Pablo Velasco, Marta Francisco, and María Elena Cartea CONTENTS Introduction 3 Glucosinolates and Hydrolysis Products 8 Glucosinolate-Derived Isothiocyanates .9 Glucosinolate-Derived... books on nutrition and 53 other scientific books He has published more than 500 research and review articles His major research emphasis have been in the field of dietary supplements in health promotion in senior citizens, diabetic, arthritic, hypertensive, and heart failure patients and development of new dietary supplements and immunomodulators to change the structure of heart and thus the function... variation, both quantitatively and qualitatively Occurrence and concentrations vary according to species and cultivar, tissue type, physiological age, plant health, environmental factors (agronomic practices, climatic conditions), insect attack, and microorganism intrusion (Fenwick and Heaney, 1983; Ciska et al., 2000; Mithen et al., 2000; Velasco et al., 2007, 2008) Glucosinolate and related isothiocyanate... terminal R-group, which 10 Bioactive Foods and Extracts can be an alkyl, alkenyl, alkylthioalkyl, aryl, beta-hydroxyalkyl, or indolylmethyl group Although the most studied isothiocyanate compound is sulforaphane (SFN), it is important to mention that other glucosinolates and metabolites found in cruciferous vegetables like allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), and benzyl isothiocyanate... Medicine and Public Health University of Santiago de Compostela Gerard E Mullin Division of Gastroenterology The Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Maryland and Akira Murakami Division of Food Science and Biotechnology Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Liam J Murray Centre for Public Health Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Mónica Pérez-Ríos Department of Preventive Medicine and . x0 y0 w1 h1" alt="" Bioactive Foods and Extracts Cancer Treatment and Prevention Bioactive Foods and Extracts Cancer Treatment and Prevention Edited. Therapies with Bioactive Foods and Their Products 1Chapter 9 Bioactive Foods and Extracts in Prostate Cancer Prevention 319 Faysal A. Ya and Wassim Kassouf 2Chapter