Biochemical targets of plant bioactive compounds
Subtitle: a pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects
By: Gideon Polya.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 847
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Botanical chemistry -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Plant products -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Pharmacognosy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Plants -- Metabolism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Plant Extracts -- metabolism; Biological Factors; Pharmacognosy; Signal Transduction; Structure-Activity Relationship
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plant defensive compounds and their biochemical targets; title: Introduction; title: Organization and scope of the book; title: Description of the tables; title: Using the tables; title: The structural diversity of plant defensive compounds; title: Plant alkaloids; title: Plant phenolics; title: Plant terpenes; title: Other plant compounds; title: Biochemistry: the chemistry of life; title: Introduction: water-based life; title: Protein structure; title: Enzymes and ligand-binding proteins; title: Metabolic strategies; title: Inhibition of biochemical processes by plant defensive compounds; title: Neurotransmitter- and hormone-gated ion channels; title: Introduction: electrical signalling in excitable cells; title: Ionotropic neurotransmitter receptors: neurotransmitter-gated ion channels; title: Structure and function of ionotropic receptors; title: Ion pumps, ligand- and voltage-gated ion channels; title: Introduction; title: Ion pumps; title: Voltage-gated Na⁺ channels; title: Ligand-regulated and voltage-gated K⁺ channels; title: Voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels; title: Ligand-gated Ca²⁺ channels; title: Chloride transport and voltage-regulated chloride channels.