Bioactive essential oils and cancer. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Damião Pergentino de Sousa, editor.
• Editors: Sousa, Damião Pergentino de
• Contents: Chapter 1: Principles of cancer pathogenesis and therapy: a brief overview -- Chapter 2: Essential Oils Chemistry -- Chapter 3: Pharmacobotanical Aspects of Aromatic Plants -- Chapter 4: Essential oils as Raw Materials in the Synthesis of Anticancer Drugs -- Chapter 5: Antitumor Essential Oils: Progress in Medicinal Chemistry -- Chapter 6: Clinical Advances on Anticancer Essential Oils -- Chapter 7: Antitumor Essential Oils -- Chapter 8: Antitumor Monoterpenes -- Chapter 9: Sesquiterpenes from Essential Oils with Promising Antitumor Properties -- Chapter 10: Antitumor Phenylpropanoids -- Chapter 11: Antitumor Essential Oils: Synergy and Chemotherapeutic Interactions -- Chapter 12: Dietary Essential Oils and Cancer chemopreventive potential -- Chapter 13: Cancer and aromatherapy: a view of how the use of essential oils applies to palliative care -- Chapter 14: Perillyl Alcohol: A Pharmacotherapeutic Report -- Chapter 15: Conclusion and Future Perspectives.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.99/406; Medicine; Cancer -- Alternative treatment; Essences and essential oils -- Therapeutic use; Oncology; Botany; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Cancer -- Alternative treatment; Essences and essential oils -- Therapeutic use; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Molecular Biology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Medical research; Botany & plant sciences; Medical -- Oncology; Oncology; Neoplasms -- therapy; Complementary Therapies; Oils, Volatile; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319191447; 3319191446; 3319191438; 9783319191430
• Related ISBNs: 9783319191430
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 15, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.