Medicinal plants
Subtitle: classification, biosynthesis, and pharmacology
By: [edited by] Alejandro Varela and Jasiah Ibañez.
Contributors: Varela, Alejandro.; Ibañez, Jasiah.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608760275
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicinal plants; Pharmacognosy; Plants, Medicinal; Phytotherapy; Plant Extracts -- biosynthesis; Plant Extracts -- pharmacology; Plants, Medicinal -- classification
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biological effects of [beta]-carotene / Rosa Martha Perez Gutierrez ... [et al.]; title: Native medicinal plants used in the ethnomedicine of the Córdoba Hills in central Argentina : relevance and interest for primary health care and conservation / Gustavo J. Martínez ... [et al.]; title: Gastroprotective triterpenoids : pharmacological mechanism / Aracely E. Chávez-Piña, Andrés Navarrete; title: Biosyntheses and bioactivities of flavonoids in the medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis / Hua-Bin Li ... [et al.]; title: Management of diabetes with diet and plant-derived drugs / Vandana Gulati, Ian H. Harding, Enzo A. Palombo; title: Biomolecules with anti-mycobacterial activity / Jorge Castro-Garza ... [et al.]; title: Metal concentrations in Taiwanese health food, Angelica keiskei, other products and maximum daily intake / Chien-Yi Chen; title: Ethnobotany and experimental pharmacology of Echinodorus grandiflorus (chapéu de couro) / Sônia Sin Singer Brugiolo ... [et al.]; title: Non-invasive near infrared spectroscopic techniques for the characterization of medicinal plants and their constituents / C.W. Huck, G.K. Bonn; title: What is the future of phytotherapy? a commentary / Paolo Sossai; title: Quality control of polysaccharides from medicinal plants and fungi / Jia Guan, Shao-Ping Li.