Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
Food and Healthy Mind: Caffeic Acid and its Derivatives
(Satyabrata Ghosh, Department of Ingeniería Rural, ETSI Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 2
Role of Caffeic Acid in Winemaking
(Jose Luis Aleixandre-Tudo, Jose Luis Aleixandre, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, and others)

Chapter 3
The Comprehensive Understanding of Anti-Diabetic and Anti-Obesity Effects of Coffee Intake via Nutrigenomics
(Wanping Aw, Huijuan Jia, Shoko Takahashi, Shinji Fukuda and Hisanori Kato, Corporate Sponsored Research Program “Food for Life,” Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and others)

Chapter 4
Antimicrobial Properties and Potential Usefulness of Caffeic Acid
(M. J. Rodríguez-Vaquero, C. V. Vallejo, O. A. Sosa, F. M. Saguir and P. A. Aredes-Fernandez, Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia – Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Ayacucho 471 – CONICET. Tucumán. Argentina)

Chapter 5
Molecular, Pharmacological and Chemical Biology of Caffeic Acid and Derivatives
(Cheorl-Ho Kim, Molecular and Cellular Glycobiology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, SungKyunKwan University, Chunchun-Dong, Jangan-Gu, Suwon City, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea)

Chapter 6
Therapeutic Potential of Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester in Neurodegenerative Diseases
(Mushfiquddin Khan, Mauhammad Baarine and Inderjit Singh, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)

Chapter 7
Caffeic Acid and its Derivatives as Inhibitors of Lipoxygenases in Different Organisms
(Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, Mohamed Touaibia, National Research Council of Canada, Moncton, Canada, and others)

Chapter 8
The Role of Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in the Analysis of Caffeic Acid
(Paolo Lucci, Oscar Núñez and Javier Saurina, Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, and others)

Index