Novel therapeutic agents from plants / editors, María Cecilia Carpinella, Mahendra Rai.
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TextPublication details: Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, c2009.Description: x, 478 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781578085460 (hardcover)
- 1578085462 (hardcover)
- 615.321 CAR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 615.321 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100402537 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Since the advent of synthetic drugs, the use of natural products has diminished. However, the diversity of natural molecules still surpasses those from synthetic compounds, and this ensures that natural products will continue to be important for drug discovery. Besides, many of the currently used synthetic drugs have side-effects and often expensive. While there are several books on natural drugs, this volume covers multiple curative aspects of natural chemicals. It is a complete review of medicinally active metabolites produced by nature and looked at from different approaches. The book describes the effects of natural extracts and/or their isolated compounds and also gives an update of their modes of action, production and commercialisation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anticancer compounds of plant origin / Modhumita Ghosh, Manisha Thapliyal and Krish Gurumurthi -- Antimicrobial and antiviral metabolites from polypore fungi / Jordan K. Zjawiony -- Naturally occurring anti-salmonella agents and their modes of action / Isao Kubo, Ken-ichi Fujita and Aya Kubo -- Natural chemotherapeutic agents in the control of malaria / Edith O. Ajaiyeoba -- Anti-Candida activity of extracts and essential oils from native and exotic medicinal plants in Brazil / Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte and Glyn Mara Figueira -- Bridging the gap: using natural products in drug discovery research in academia and industry / Alan L. Harvey -- Fungal endophytes: a potential source of anticancer compounds / Sunil Deshmukh and Shilpa A. Verekar -- A review of antifungal and antiviral proteins / Tzi Bun Ng and Jack H. Wong -- Compounds with antioxidant activity from herbs / Tzi Bun Ng and Jack H. Wong -- Bioactivity of medicinal plants: progress and perspectives / José-Luis Ríos and Rosa A. Sendra -- Cannabimimetics: the pharmacological potential of cannabinoid receptor ligands / Jürg Gertsch -- Anti-inflammatory herbal medicines for the control of pain / Julia Elodie Vlachojannis ... [et al.] -- Metabolic engineering for the fabrications of pharmaceutically central metabolites from microorganisms and higher plants / Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan and Arjumand Ather -- Pharmacogenomics of biotic and abiotic natural products derived from traditional Chinese medicine for cancer therapy / Thomas Efferth and Bernd Kaina -- Plant derived antimycobacterial metabolites: an overview / Adewole L. Okunade and Memory P.F. Elvin-Lewis.