Novel therapeutic agents from plants
By: editors: Maria Cecilia Carpinella, Mahendra Rai.
Contributors: Carpinella, María Cecilia.; Rai, Mahendra.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Enfield, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781578085460
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicinal plants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anticancer compounds of plant origin / Modhumita Ghosh, Manisha Thapliyal and Krish Gurumurthi; title: Antimicrobial and antiviral metabolites from polypore fungi / Jordan K. Zjawiony; title: Naturally occurring anti-salmonella agents and their modes of action / Isao Kubo, Ken-ichi Fujita and Aya Kubo; title: Natural chemotherapeutic agents in the control of malaria / Edith O. Ajaiyeoba; title: Anti-Candida activity of extracts and essential oils from native and exotic medicinal plants in Brazil / Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte and Glyn Mara Figueira; title: Bridging the gap: using natural products in drug discovery research in academia and industry / Alan L. Harvey; title: Fungal endophytes: a potential source of anticancer compounds / S.K. Deshmukh and S.A. Verekar; title: A review of antifungal and antiviral proteins / Tzi Bun Ng; title: Compounds with antioxidant activity from herbs / T.B. Ng; title: Bioactivity of medicinal plants: progress and perspectives / José-Luis Rios and Rosa A. Sendra; title: Cannabimimetics: the pharmacological potential of cannabinoid receptor ligands / Jurg Gertsch; title: Anti-inflammatory herbal medicines for the control of pain / Julia Elodie Vlachojannis ... [et al.]; title: Metabolic engineering for the fabrication of pharmaceutically central metabolites from microorganisms and higher plants / Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan and Arjumand Ather; title: Pharmacogenomics of biotic and abiotic natural products derived from traditional Chinese medicine for cancer therapy / Thomas Efferth and Bernd Kaina; title: Plant derived antimycobacterial metabolites: an overview / Adewole L. Okunade and Memory P.F. Elvin-Lewis.