Natural Products and Drug Discovery: An Integrated Approach

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. Combining the potential of traditional medicine with the refinement of modern chemical technology, using natural products as the basis for drugs can help in the development of more environmentally sound, economical, and effective drug discovery processes. Natural Products & Drug Discovery: An Integrated Approach reflects on the current changes in this field, giving context to the current shift and using supportive case studies to highlight the challenges and successes faced by researchers in integrating traditional medicinal sources with modern chemical technologies. Reviews the changing role of natural products in drug discovery, integrating traditional knowledge with modern molecular technologies Highlights the potential future role of natural products in preventative medicine Features real world case studies throughout INDICE: Chemotaxonomy of medicinal plants: Possibilities and limitations Plant drugs in the treatment of osteoporosis Anti-inflammatory medicinal plants: A remedy for most disease conditions?Common toxic plants and their forensic significanceThe role of natural products from plants in the development of anticancer agentsToxicity studies related to medicinal plantsNatural products in lifestyle diseases: In vitro screeningTraditional and folk medicine as target for drug discoveryBioactivity guided phyto-fractions: an emerging natural drug discovery tool for safe and effective disease management Ethnobotany /Ethnopharmacology and bioprospecting: Issues on knowledge and uses of medicinal plants by Moroccan peoplePhytodrugs and immunomodulators for the therapy of LeishmaniasisHerb and drug interactionGood agricultural practices: Requirement for the production of quality herbal medicinesRole of stress in diseases & its remedial approach by herbal and natural product in stress related disease management : Experimental studies and clinical reportsNatural products targeting inflammation processes and multiple mediators Techniques and technologies for the biodiscovery of novel small molecule drug lead compounds from natural productsDigitization of traditional knowledgeCultivation of medicinal plantsDevelopment of Chinese herbal health products for the prevention of aging-associated diseasesBiologically functional compounds from mushroom-forming fungiDrug development using animal resources in China Drug Discovery from Ayurveda: Mode of Approach and Applications

• ISBN: 978-0-08-102081-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés