Beschreibung:
Natural Products and Drug Discovery: An Integrated Approach provides an applied overview of the field, from traditional medicinal targets, to cutting-edge molecular techniques. Natural products have always been of key importance to drug discovery, but as modern techniques and technologies have allowed researchers to identify, isolate, extract and synthesize their active compounds in new ways, they are once again coming to the forefront of drug discovery.
Section I: Traditional medicine and Drug discovery 1. Drug discovery from Ayurveda: Mode of approach and applications 2. Traditional and folk medicine as target for drug discovery 3. Bioactivity guided phyto-fractions: an emerging natural drug discovery tool for safe and effective disease management 4. Development of Chinese herbal health products for the prevention of aging-associated diseases 5. Ethnobotany / ethnopharmacology and bioprospecting: Issues on knowledge and uses of medicinal plants by Moroccan people 6. Chemotaxonomy of medicinal plants: Possibilities and limitations