Functional Foods for Disease Prevention II: Medicinal Plants and Other Foods Book

	Preface
	Contents(Volume II)
1	The Prevention of Cancer	2
2	Glucosinolates, Myrosinase, and Isothiocyanates: Three Reasons for Eating Brassica Vegetables	16
3	Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer by Select Phytochemicals	23
4	Lycopene and Cancer: An Overview	34
5	Mechanisms of Phytochemical Inhibition of Carcinogenesis: Elucidating the Role of [gamma]-Tocopherol in Nutrition	45
6	Carotenoids, as Promising Factor for Functional Foods	59
7	Metabolism of Dietary Carotenoids and Their Potential Role in Prevention of Cancer and Age-Related Macular Degeneration	71
8	Auraptene, an Alkyloxylated Coumarin from Citrus natsudaidai HAYATA, Inhibits Mouse Skin Tumor Promotion and Rat Colonic Aberrant Crypt Foci Formation	86
9	Anticarcinogenic and/or Antimetastatic Action of Apple Pectin in Experimental Rat Colon Carcinogenesis and on Hepatic Metastasis Rat Model	96
10	Antitumor Activity of Emblica officinalis Gaertn Fruit Extract	104
11	Beneficial Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Health: A Review of Recent Results on Wines	114
12	Anti-Fatigue Effects of Yiegin	122
13	A Potent Antioxidative and Anti-UV-B Isoflavonoids Transformed Microbiologically from Soybean Components	127
14	Soy Isoflavones in Foods: Database Development	138
15	Human Bioavailability of Soy Bean Isoflavones: Influences of Diet, Dose, Time, and Gut Microflora	150
16	The Color Stability and Antioxidative Activity of an Anthocyanin and [gamma]-Cyclodextrin Complex	157
17	Inhibitory Effect of Flavonoids on Lipoxygenase-Dependent Lipid Peroxidation of Human Plasma Lipoproteins	172
18	Comparison on the Nitrite Scavenging Activity and Antimutagen Formation Between Insoluble and Soluble Dietary Fibers	178
19	Antitumor Effect of Green Tea on Rat Urinary Bladder Tumor Induced by N-Butyl-N-(4-hydroxybuty) nitrosamine	191
20	In Vitro and In Vivo Effects of Fatty Acids and Phenolic Compounds on Chemical Mediator Release from Rat Peritoneal Exudate Cells	198
21	Tea Catechin (EGCG) and Its Metabolites as Bioantioxidants	209
22	Effects of Tea Polyphenols Against Helicobacter pylori	217
23	Modulation of Mitotic Signal Transduction by Curcumin and Tea Polyphenols and Their Implication for Cancer Chemoprevention	225
	Author Index	241
	Subject Index	243