Loading...

Bioactive Natural Products: Opportunities and Challenges in Medicinal Chemistry

Bioactive natural products are a rich source of novel therapeutics. Thus, the search for bioactive molecules from nature continues to play an important role in fashioning new medicinal agents. This volume, which comprises sixteen chapters written by active researchers and leading experts in natural...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goutam Brahmachari [ editor ]
Format: Printed Book
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ World Scientific 2012
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Natural products in drug discovery : impacts and opportunities
  • an assessment / Goutam Brahmachari
  • Vascular regulation by small peptides / Toshiro Matsui, Zhengquan Wang, Mitsuru Tanaka
  • Key natural products in malaria chemotherapy : from quinine to artemisinin and beyond / Jean Fotie
  • Natural product inhibitors and activators of histone deacetylases / Michael D. Scott, Manas K. Haldar, Sanku Mallik
  • Artemisinin : a promise for the development of potent anticancer agents / Daniel L. da Silva [and others]
  • Andrographolide : a plant-derived natural molecule of pharmaceutical promise / Goutam Brahmachari
  • Natural products in Alzheimer's disease : impacts and prospects / Shri Kant Mishra, Mark C. Stahl, Parampreet Singh
  • Use of multi-nutrient functional peptide complex <<GRINIZATION>> for treatment and prevention of viral infections / Viktor Lozitsky [and others]
  • Anti-infective flavonoids : an overview / Maria Jose Abad [and others]
  • Anti-Helicobacter Pylori activities of compounds of natural origin / Temitope O. Lawal [and others]
  • Natural bioactive principles in the treatment of skin diseases / Emmanuel C. Ibezim
  • Anti-diabetic agents of natural origin : a retrospective account of some promising chemotypes / Goutam Brahmachari
  • Fermentation improvement of processes yielding natural products for industry / Arnold L. Demain, Sergio Sanchez
  • Plant cell culture and transgenic plants : the goldmines for the production of compounds of pharmacological interest / Ana Paul de Faria [and others].