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Olives and Olive Oil in Health and Disease Prevention. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • 746 Pages
  • December 2020
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5130577
Olives and Olive Oil in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition expands the last releases content and coverage, including new sections on materials in packaging, the Mediterranean diet, metabolic syndrome, diabetic health, generational effects, epigenetics, glycemic control, ketogenic diet, antioxidant effects, the use of olive oil in protection against skin cancer, oleuropein and ERK1/2 MAP-Kinase, oleocanthal and estrogen receptors, and oleocanthal and neurological effects. The book is a valuable resource for food and health researchers, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacologists, public health scientists, epidemiologists, food technologists, agronomists, analytical chemists, biochemists, biologists, physicians, biotechnologists and students.

- Continues the tradition of exploring olives and olive oil from general aspects down to a detailed level of important micro-and micronutrients- Explains how olive oil compares to other oils- Details the many implications for human health and disease, including metabolic health, cardiovascular health and effects on tissue and body systems

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Table of Contents

PART 1 General Aspects of Olives and Olive Oil 1.1 The plant, production, olives and olive oil and their detailed characterization 1. Table olives: types and trade preparations; 2. Naturally processed table olives, their preservation and uses; 3. Olive tree genetics, genomics and transcriptomics for the olive oil quality improvement; 4. The chemical composition of Italian virgin olive oils

1.2 Components of Olives and Olive Plant Product and Uses 5. Bioactive ingredients in olive leaves; 6. Detection of adulterations of extra virgin olive oil by means of infrared thermography; 7. Influence of the distribution chain on the quality of extra virgin olive oils; 8. Spectroscopy to evaluate the quality control of extra virgin olive oils; 9. Chemical composition of fermented green olives; 10. Polyphenols in Olive Oil: The importance of Phenolic Compounds in the Chemical Composition of Olive Oil; 11. Polyphenol oxidase and oleuropein in olives and their changes during olive ripening

1.3 Stability, Microbes, Contaminants and Adverse Components and Processes 12. Degradation of phenolic compounds found in olive products by Lactobacillus plantarum strains; 13. Microbial colonization of naturally fermented olives

PART 2 Nutritional, Pharmacological and Metabolic Properties of Olives and Olive Oil 2.1 General Nutritional and Health Aspects 14. Overview of Olive oil in vascular dysfunction; 15. Olive in Traditional Persian Medicine: An Overview; 16. The bioavailability of olive oil phenolic compounds and their bioactive effects in humans; 17. Mediterranean Diet and role of olive oil; 18. Probiotics from Fermented Olives; 19. Olive oil-contained phenolic compounds protect cells against H2O2-induced damage and modulate redox signaling by chelating intracellular labile iron; 20. Synaptosomes as a model to study fish- and olive-oil effect as neuroprotectors; 21. Olive oil and postprandial energy metabolism: implications for weight control; 22. Effect of Olive oil on Metabolic Syndrome

2.2 Cardiovascular 23. Olive and olive oil: a one stop herbal solution for the prophylaxis and management of cardiovascular disorders; 24. Extra-virgin olive oils storage: effect on constituents of biological significance

2.3 Oxidative Stress 25. Antioxidants in olive oil phenolics: a focus on myoblasts; 26. Antioxidant activity in olive oils

2.4 Cancer and Immunology 27. Olives and olive oil compounds active against pathogenic microorganisms; 28. Olive oil in the prevention of breast and colon carcinogenesis; 29. The effects of olive oil and other dietary fats on redox status on breast cancer; 30. Olive Pollen Allergens: an insight into clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic concepts of allergy; 31. Cancer preventive role of olives and olive oil via modulation of apoptosis and NF-?B activation; 32. Immune system and olive oil

2.5 Other Effects, Uses and Diseases 33. Effect of olive oil on the skin; 34. Extra virgin olive oil, cognition and brain health; 35. The Foundation for the Use of Olive Oil in Skin Care and Botanical Cosmeceuticals; 36. Olive oil and male fertility; 37. Revealing the Molecular Mechanism of Olea Europaea L. in Treatment of Cataract; 38. Olive leaf, DNA damage and chelation therapy; 39. Olive polyphenols and chronic alcohol protection; 40. Olive oil diet and amyloidosis: focus on Alzheimer's disease; 41. Olive biophenols benefits and challenges: A perspective; 42. Treatment and valorization of olive mill wastewater

PART 3 Specific Components of Olive Oil and Their Effects on Tissue and Body Systems 3.1 Tyrosol and Hydroxytyrosol 43. Cancer chemopreventive activity of maslinic acid, a pentacyclic triterpene from olives and olive oil; 44. Hydroxytyrosol, olive oil and use in aging; 45. Hydroxytyrosol and hydroxytyrosyl fatty esters: occurrence and anti-inflammatory properties; 46. Influence of olive oil on pancreatic, biliary and gastric secretion. Role of gastrointestinal peptides; 47. Effects of virgin olive oil on fatty acid composition of pancreatic cells membranes: modulation of acinar cell function and signalling, and cell injury; 48. Hydroxytyrosol: features and impact on pancreatitis; 49. The Effects of extra-virgin olive oil minority compounds hydroxytyrosol and oleuropein on glioma

3.2 Oleuropein 50. The usage of oleuropein on myocardium; 51. Oleuropein and skin cancer; 52. Oleuropein, olive and insulin resistance

3.3 Oleic Acid 53. Oleic acid, the main component of olive oil on postprandial metabolic processes; 54. Oleic acid and olive oil polyphenols down-regulate fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis in brain and liver cells

3.4 Oleocanthal 55. Olive Oil Oleocanthal and Estrogen Receptor Expression; 56. Neuroprotective Effects of Oleocanthal in Neurological Disorders; 57. S-(-)-Oleocanthal as a c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor and its application to synergize targeted therapies and prevent breast cancer recurrence; 58. Phenolic Compounds in Olive Oil Mill Wastewater (2nd Edition)

PART 4 Online Resources and other Recommended Material Online Resources and other Recommended Material

Authors

Preedy, Victor R. Dr. Preedy is a senior member of King's College London and Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. Professor Preedy has longstanding academic interests in substance misuse especially in relation to health and well-being. In his career Professor Preedy was Reader at the Addictive Behaviour Centre at The University of Roehampton, and also Reader at the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London; UCL). Professor Preedy is an extremely experienced book editor, having edited influential works including but not limited to The Handbook of Alcohol Related Pathology, The Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse, The Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologies, The Neuroscience of Cocaine, and upcoming titles The Neuroscience of Alcohol, The Neuroscience of Nicotine, and more (all Elsevier). Watson, Ronald Ross Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson's career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.