Kurt Hostettmann (Switzerland Universite de Geneve)

Chemistry, Biological and Pharmacological Properties of Medicinal Plants from the Americas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textincludes acompilation of plenary lectures presented at the IOCD/CYTED Symposium held in Panama City, Panama in 1997, and covers different aspects of research into plants from North, South and Central America. The topics treated all revolve around the chemistry, pharmacology, and biology of these plants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 174mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9789057023972
• ISBN-10: 9057023970
• Artikelnr.: 21883021

Autorenporträt

Hostettmann, Kurt

Inhaltsangabe

Lessons from natural medicines; application of LC/MS and LC/NMR in the
search for new bioactive compounds from plants of the Americas; the quest
for new biologically active natural products; pharmacochemistry of new
compounds from South American plant bioassay methods useful for
activity-guided isolation of natural product cancer chemopreventive agents;
biodiversity conservation and drug development in Suriname; antimicrobial
activities of phytochemicals from British Columbian medicinal plants;
bioactive compounds from Panamanian plants; bioactive natural products of
medicinal and agrochemical interest from selected Mexican medicinal plants;
the Brazilian folk medicine programme to validate medicinal plants - a
topic in new antihypersensitive drug research; recent developments in the
chemistry and pharmacology of boldo and boldine; metabolic engineering - a
strategy to improve plant secondary metabolite production.