New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Recent Advances in Application of Fungi and Fungal Metabolites: Applications in Healthcare

New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Recent Advances in Application of Fungi and Fungal Metabolites: Applications in Healthcare presents an account of recent development and applied aspects of fungi and its metabolites in the healthcare sector. Chapters are written by eminent researchers, emphasizing the incredible role of fungi and its metabolites in the field of medicine. This book offers reference material to all mycologists working on the exploration and usage of medicinal aspects of fungi and fungal metabolites.

Introduces the aspects and advances of fungi and fungal metabolites in healthcareIncludes a description of traditional uses and modern practices on how to harness the potential of fungi and its metabolites in healthcare applicationsProvides details surrounding the use of fungi and its metabolites in medical purposesDescribes potential manifold prospects of fungi and fungal metabolites

1. Prospects for macro-fungal metabolites in human health
2. Endophytic fungi: A New Hope for Drug Discovery
3. Pharmacological Applications of Medicinal Mushroom
4. Pharmacologically active fungal secondary metabolites in Lichen symbiosis
5. Therapeutic potency of bioactive compounds from fungal endophytes
6. Fungal origin antibiotics: the current scenario in pharmacology industries
7. Role of fungi in neurodegenerative diseases
8. Fungal secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity
9. Encounter of Fungal Secondary Metabolites: A Promising Source of Anti-cancer Drugs
10. Neoteric trends in marine fungi research as promising and alternate source of anticancer phytochemicals
11. Fungal Enzyme inhibitors: Repository of novel cancer therapeutics
12. Enhancement of anticancer secondary metabolites production in fungi with biotechnological aspects
13. Fungal Metabolites- A Potential Source of Anti-Viral Compounds
14. Myconanoparticles as an effective antimicrobial against MDR (Multi Drug Resistant) pathogens
15. Chitin: Promising biopolymer for biomedical application
16. Status of fungal disease in silkworm
17. Anti-pathogenic activity of fungal secondary metabolites: with special reference to human pathogenic bacteria
18. Hypoglycaemic potential of mushrooms and their metabolites
19. Marine Fungi: promising source for anticancer compounds
20. Bio-medical applications of 4-hydroxycoumarin as fungal metabolite and its derivatives