Biologically active natural products : pharmaceuticals /

This book demonstrates the connections between agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals and explores the use of plants and plant products in the formulation and development of pharmaceuticals

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cutler, Horace G., 1932-, Cutler, Stephen J
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2000
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Connections between agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals / David E. Wedge, N. Dwight Camper
  • Fractionation of plants to discover substances to combat cancer / A. Douglas Kinghorn [and others]
  • Therapeutic potential of plant-derived compounds : realizing the potential / James S. Miller, Roy E. Gereau
  • Biodiversity conservation, economic development, and drug discovery in Suriname / David G.I. Kingston [and others]
  • Recent trends in the use of natural products and their derivatives as potential pharmaceutical agents / George Majetich
  • Highlights of research on plant-derived natural products and their analogs with antitumor, anti-HIV, and antifungal activity / Kuo-Hsiung Lee
  • Discovery of antifungal agents from natural sources : virulence factor targets / Alice M. Clark, Larry A. Walker
  • Reactive quinones : from chemical defense mechanisms in plants to drug design / Richard A. Hudson, L.M. Viranga Tillekeratne
  • Structure-activity relationships of peroxide-based artemisinin antimalarials / Mitchell A. Avery [and others]
  • Naturally occurring antimutagenic and cytoprotective agents / Lester A. Mitscher [and others]
  • Lobeline : a natural product with high affinity for neuronal nicotinic receptors and a vast potential for use in neurological disorders / Christopher R. McCurdy, Reagan L. Miller, J. Warren Beach
  • Protein kinase C inhibitory phenylpropanoid glycosides from Polygonum species / Albert T. Sneden
  • Thwarting resistance : Annonaceous acetogenins as new pesticidal and antitumor agents / Holly A. Johnson [and others]
  • A strategy for rapid identification of novel therapeutic leads from natural products / Khisal A. Alvi
  • Dynamic docking study of the binding of 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene in the putative electrophile binding site of naturally occurring human glutathione S-transferase pi allelo-polymorphic proteins / John K. Buolamwini, Francis Ali-Osman
  • Panax ginseng : standardization and biological activity / Fabio Soldati
  • Marine natural products as leads to develop new drugs and insecticides / Khalid A. El Sayed [and others]
  • Commercialization of plant-derived natural products as pharmaceuticals : a view from the trenches / James D. McChesney