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- Edited by K. Hostettmann,
Professor, A. Marston, M. Maillard, all at the Institut
de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie, Université de Lausanne,
Switzerland, and M. Hamburger, Centre for National Products
Research, National University of Singapore
There is an increasing interest in
natural plant products as a source of new pharmaceuticals and other
biologically- active compounds. This is a timely review of the latest
advances and trends in a field which is becoming a commercially
significant area of investigation for the pharmaceutical industry. The
pharmacological and phytochemical aspects of different preparations
from vegetable sources is a truly interdisciplinary field and this
book includes information on ethnopharmacology, selection, isolation
and structure determination of plant-derived natural products. Many
examples of different bioassays (in vitro and in vivo test systems)
and pharmacological tests are given, providing the reader with an
insight into what is currently possible in the study of bioactive
plant material.
- Contents: Shaman as a scientist:
indigenous knowledge systems in pharmacological research and
conservation; Strategy in the search for new biologically active plant
constituents; New biologically active metabolites from plants used in
Papua New Guinea and Bolivia; Pursuit of new leads to anti-tumour and
anti-HIV agents from plants; Phytochemistry of some plants used in
traditional medicine for treatment of protozoal diseases; Activity
structure studies of natural products with anti-inflammatory/immunomodulatory
effects; Search for noncarcinogenic sweeteners from medicinal plants;
Bioactive Polymers from higher plants; Acetogenins from annonaceae;
Structure and biological activity of sesquiterpene and diterpene
derivatives from medicinal plants; Structural studies on new compounds
from medicinal plants of Pakistan, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Turkey;
Bioactive compounds from plants and higher fungi of Ethiopia; The
chemistry and bioactivities of some natural products from Chinese
herbs; Pharmacological investigation of Indonesian medicinal plants;
Panamanian flora: source of bioactive compounds.
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- 422 pages, numerous line figures and
tables, Clarendon Press, June 1995
- 0-19-857775-3, Hardback, was £75.00,
now £56.25
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Phytochemistry
of Plants Used in Traditional Medicine