Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction (eBook)

Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction discusses the problem of environmental pollution, medicinal and food plants, and their impact on reproduction. The book describes the mechanisms of environmental contaminants' action, outlines the key causes of their harmful impact on reproduction, and explores what regulatory substances and processes should be targeted due to the negative effect of pollutants on reproduction. Furthermore, it describes the provenance, properties, physiological and therapeutic effects, and possible areas of application of the known medicinal and functional food plants and their constituents with a focus on female reproductive processes.

This book will be a useful resource for reproductive biologists, specialists in assisted reproduction, animal production and phytotherapy, toxicologists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists, endocrinologists, medicinal and natural product chemists, nutritionists and others engaged in the study of environmental contaminants and medicinal and functional food plants.

• Discusses common environmental contaminants that affect female reproductive processes and the mechanisms of their effects
• Covers plants and their active substances as potential protectives to environmental contaminants
• Examines how medicinal plants affect female reproductive processes, the mechanisms of their effects, and what plant molecules are responsible for the positive effects

Alexander Sirotkin, PhD., DrSc. is a known specialist in biology of reproduction and leader in studies of some ovarian signaling substances and factors regulating female reproduction. He received his PhD degree at the University of Leningrad (USSR), PhD degree in the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry (Leningrad, USSR) and DrSc degree in the Research Institute of Animal Production (Nitra, Slovakia). He worked as Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Head of the Laboratory and Project Leader in the Research Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics (Leningrad-Pushkin, USSR), International Laboratory for Biotechnology (Nitra, Czechoslovakia), Research Institute of Animal Production/Animal Production Research Centre (Nitra, Slovakia) and Constantine the Philosopher University (Nitra, Slovakia) which is his current affiliation. His teaching activities included lectures at more than 10 universities and research centers, as well as the supervision of more than 60 undergraduate and PhD student works. He has more than 650 publications, mainly in international biomedical journals and several books including recent monograph 'Regulators of Ovarian Functions” (Nova Science Pub Inc, 2014). He has been nominated for?more than 10national and international awards for his work in the areas of biology and the endocrinology of reproduction.

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Environmental Contaminants and Medicinal Plants Action on Female Reproduction discusses the problem of environmental pollution, medicinal and food plants, and their impact on reproduction. The book describes the mechanisms of environmental contaminants' action, outlines the key causes of their harmful impact on reproduction, and explores what regulatory substances and processes should be targeted due to the negative effect of pollutants on reproduction. Furthermore, it describes the provenance, properties, physiological and therapeutic effects, and possible areas of application of the known medicinal and functional food plants and their constituents with a focus on female reproductive processes. This book will be a useful resource for reproductive biologists, specialists in assisted reproduction, animal production and phytotherapy, toxicologists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists, endocrinologists, medicinal and natural product chemists, nutritionists and others engaged in the study of environmental contaminants and medicinal and functional food plants. Discusses common environmental contaminants that affect female reproductive processes and the mechanisms of their effects Covers plants and their active substances as potential protectives to environmental contaminants Examines how medicinal plants affect female reproductive processes, the mechanisms of their effects, and what plant molecules are responsible for the positive effects