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Focuses on the applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals, discussing techniques in algal cultivation and extraction, biological properties, and uses of algal metabolites and microalgae-based compounds in drug development, food nutrition, and cosmetics with medicinal properties.
List of contents
1. Cosmetic Applications of Microalgal and Cyanobacterial Pigments 2. Algae as Nutraceutical, Functional Food, and Food Ingredients 3. Food Bioactive Compounds from Microalgae 4. Spirulina-Derived Nutraceuticals and Their Applications in the Food Industry 5. Algal Metabolites in the Nutraceutical Industries: Current Trends and Future Perspectives 6. Algaculture and Its Applications in the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Industry 7. Biological Importance of Algal Metabolites 8. Biological Properties of Microalgae-Based Products 9. Microalgae: A Multifaceted Treasure of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals 10. Anticancer Compounds from Freshwater Microalgae 11. Bioactive Microalgal Peptides from
Spirulina 12. Biotechnological Potentials of Macroalgae as a Source of Phycobiliproteins
About the author
Jeyabalan Sangeetha, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, South India. She has edited/coedited several books in her research areas, which include environmental toxicology, environmental microbiology, environmental biotechnology, and environmental nanotechnology. She earned her BSc in Microbiology and PhD in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the recipient of a Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and a Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of the University Grants
Commission, Government of India for her doctoral studies. She served as the Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India, during 2012-2016.
Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Associate Professor at Karnatak University in South India and Editor-in-Chief of the international journals
Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering and
Acta Biologica Indica. He has authored/edited over 25 books with national and international publishers and has visited 23 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for academic visits, scientific meetings, and international collaborations. He received his PhD in Botany from Sri Krishnadevaraya University in South India as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow with funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Madeira, Portugal; University of Delhi, India; and ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, India. He is the recipient of a Best Young Scientist Award with a Gold Medal from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, and the VGST-SMYSR Young Scientist Award of the Government of Karnataka, Republic of India.
Summary
Focuses on the applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals, discussing techniques in algal cultivation and extraction, biological properties, and uses of algal metabolites and microalgae-based compounds in drug development, food nutrition, and cosmetics with medicinal properties.
