Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants

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John T. Arnason, Rachel Mata, John T. Romeo
Springer Science & Business Media, 11 лист. 2013 р. - 364 стор.
Phytochemicals from medicinal plants are receiving ever greater attention in the scientific literature, in medicine, and in the world economy in general. For example, the global value of plant-derived pharmaceuticals will reach $500 billion in the year 2000 in the OECD countries. In the developing countries, over-the-counter remedies and "ethical phytomedicines," which are standardized toxicologically and clinically defined crude drugs, are seen as a promising low cost alternatives in primary health care. The field also has benefited greatly in recent years from the interaction of the study of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge and the application of modem phytochemical analysis and biological activity studies to medicinal plants. The papers on this topic assembled in the present volume were presented at the annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, held in Mexico City, August 15-19, 1994. This meeting location was chosen at the time of entry of Mexico into the North American Free Trade Agreement as another way to celebrate the closer ties between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The meeting site was the historic Calinda Geneve Hotel in Mexico City, a most appropriate site to host a group of phytochemists, since it was the address of Russel Marker. Marker lived at the hotel, and his famous papers on steroidal saponins from Dioscorea composita, which launched the birth control pill, bear the address of the hotel.
 

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Chapter
2
Immunostimulants and Adaptogens from Plants
3
Adaptogens
9
Summary and Conclusion
17
Natural Product Cancer Chemopreventive Agents
19
Antiviral and Antitumor Plant Metabolites
47
Biological Diversity of Medicinal Plants in Mexico
65
Bioactive Natural Products from Traditionally Used Mexican Plants
83
Biologically Active Compounds from Chilean Medicinal Plants
137
Modulators of Energy Metabolism
161
Applications of Liquid ChromatographyMass Spectrometry to
189
Root Culture as a Source of Secondary Metabolites of Economic
217
Potent Mitochondrial Inhibitors with
249
NeoClerodane Diterpenoids from American Salvia Species
311
Recent Developments in
333
Index
357

BioassayGuided Isolation and Structure Elucidation
113

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