Healthcare using marine organisms - Kim, Se-Kwon (Boca Raton : CRC, Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Functional food and disease prevention -- What are chitin, chitosan, water-soluble chitosan, and chitosan oligosaccharides? -- How to make chitin, chitosan, and chitosan oligosaccharides? -- Physiological properties of chitin, chitosan, and chitosan oligosaccharides -- Physiological functions of glucosamine -- Utilization of chitin as artificial skin -- Chitosan oligosaccharides that prevent hazards due to alcohol consumption -- Chitosan oligosaccharides in dentistry and systemic diseases -- Alzheimer dementia and chitosan oligosaccharides -- Obesity and fisheries products -- Osteoporosis and fish bone water-soluble calcium -- Sexual dysfunction : impotence and Urechis unicinctus -- Sleep disorders and blue mussel extract -- Antidiabetic effects of marine algae (Ecklonia cava) extracts -- Allergy and marine algae -- Effects of marine algae (Ecklonia cava) asthma -- Hair loss and marine algae -- Aids prevention by 6,6'-bieckol isolated from marine algae -- Fisheries products and hypertension -- Fish oil is an adult disease preventive medicine -- Development of an ointment from sea cucumber extract for treatment of athlete's foot -- Anti-aging effect of fish with high nucleic acid content such as sardine -- Abundance of taurine in shellfishes -- Antifreeze preteins in fish -- Resolution of food shortage by fish breeding -- Development of functional cosmetic materials from marine organisms.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Aquatic environment; Biological Products -- therapeutic use; Plant Extracts -- therapeutic use; Chitin -- therapeutic use; Oligosaccharides -- therapeutic use