Novel Therapeutic Agents from Plants
Editors:
Maria C. Carpinella: School of Chemistry, Catholic University of Córdoba, Argentina
M. Rai: Department of Biotechnology, SGB Amravati University, Maharashtra, India
ISBN 978-1-57808-546-0/ 2009/ 470 pages, hc/ US $ 129.95

About the Book
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.

Contents

      •   Anticancer Compounds of Plant Origin:  M. Ghosh, M. Thapliyal and K. 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 C.T. Duarte and Glyn M. 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:  S.K. Deshmukh and S.A. Verekar

      •   A Review of Antifungal and Antiviral Proteins:  Tzi Bun Ng

      •   Compounds with Antioxidant Activity from Herbs:  T.B. Ng

      •   Bioactivity of Medicinal Plants: Progress and Perspectives:  José-Luis Rios and Rosa A. Sendra

      •   Cannabimimetics: The Pharmacological Potential of Cannabinoid Receptor Ligands:  Jurg Gertsch

      •   Anti-inflammatory Herbal Medicines for the Control of Pain: Julia E. Vlachojannis, Rujee K. Duke, Van H. Tran, Colin C. Duke and Sigrun Chrubasik

      •   Metabolic Engineering for the Fabrication of Pharmaceutically Central Metabolites from Microorganisms and Higher Plants:  M.T.H. Khan and A. 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

“... an excellent reference text for post graduate scientists working in fields as diverse as phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and clinical medicine.”

  
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