Pharmacognosy
Fundamentals, Applications and Strategies
Description
Key Features
- Covers the main sources of natural bioactive substances
- Contains practice questions and laboratory exercises at the end of every chapter to test learning and retention
- Describes how pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics play a crucial role in discerning the relationships of active metabolites to bioavailability and function at active sites
- Includes a dedicated chapter on the effect of plant metabolites on SARS-CoV-2
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I - Pharmacognosy 101
1. Background to Pharmacognosy
2. Traditional Medicine
3. Plant Anatomy and Physiology
4. Plant Constituents: Carbohydrates, Oils, Resins, Balsams, and Plant Hormones
5. Plant Crude DrugsPart II - Plant Metabolites: Their Chemistry
6. Evolutionary Perspectives on the Role of Plant Secondary Metabolites
7. Glycosides
8. Alkaloids
9. Tannins
10. Terpenoids
11. Other Plant Metabolites
12. VitaminsPart III - Plant Metabolites: Their Effects
13. Chemotherapeutics
14. Bioactive Plant Molecules, Sources and Mechanism of Action in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
15. Plant Metabolites and More Treating Various Ailments: Natural Products Treating Diseases
16. Psychoactive Drugs
17. Plant metabolites and SARS-Cov-2Part IV Metabolites from Other Sources
18. Marine Metabolites: Oceans of Opportunity
19. Animal Metabolites: From Amphibians, Reptiles, Aves/Birds, and Invertebrates
20. Fungal MetabolitesPart V - Crude Drugs From Animals
21. Fats
22. WaxesPart VI - Basic Animal Anatomy and Physiology
23. Form and Function of the Animal Cell
24. Proteins
25. Pharmacokinetics
26. Pharmacodynamics—A Pharmacognosy Perspective
27. Drug MetabolismPart VII - Technological Applications Using Biological Systems
28. BiotechnologyPart VIII - Current Trends in Pharmacognosy Research
29. Natural Product Structure Elucidation by NMR Spectroscopy
30. Metabolomics Approach in Pharmacognosy
31. Novel Targets in Drug Discovery
32. Nanotechnology: Building and Observing at the Nanometer Scale
33. Ethical Aspects of Working With Local Communities and Their Biological Resources
34. Factors to Consider in Development of Nutraceutical and Dietary Supplements
35. The Global Regulatory Framework for Medicinal Plants
36. The Potential Role of Bioscience Industries in Small Developing Economies
Product details
- No. of pages: 738
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2023
- Published: August 1, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443186578
About the Editors
Simone Badal Mccreath
Dr. Badal McCreath is a distinguished young scientist who holds the 2014 Elsevier Early Career Woman Scientist award in Chemical Sciences for the Latin America and Caribbean region. She has over 10 years’ experience in natural products research and holds a patent pending for the anticancer potential of natural products using cancer and normal cell lines.
Dr. Badal McCreath holds a number of national and international awards and distinctions. At the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, she was the 2010 Inaugural Luther Speare Scholar in addition to being the Young Scientist/Technologist awardee at the biennial 23rd Science and Technology Conference and Expo hosted by the Scientific Research Council and the Jamaica Public Service Co. She along with collaborators was also the recipient of the 2013-2014 Principal’s award for best work in anticancer research, UWI, Mona. She is a current member of various editorial boards including: The Journal of Cancer Science & Clinical Research and American International Journal of Biology. She is also an advisory board member and reviewer affiliated with Open Access Biochemistry, London.
Dr. Badal McCreath is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the UWI, Mona, Jamaica. In addition to having taught Pharmacognosy for 3 years at the University of Technology, Jamaica, her current work involves pioneering the development of novel Jamaican prostate cancer (PCa) cell lines - a project that received national funding totaling approximately 100,000 USD. As PCa incidence and mortality rates are highest among men of African descent, the development of these tools representative of PCa tumors will be available to the global scientific community in order to delineate reasons for the reduced survivorship among this group. These novel cell lines can be used to screen potentially derived natural drug leads for anticancer efficacy utilizing a personalized framework.
Dr. Badal McCreath is a well published author who is currently penning her first book, “A woman’s journey to success.” She is a dynamic scientific orator who has presented at many scientific meetings and conferences. She continues to share her expertise by training and supervising students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels while volunteering on various nonprofit organizational boards including the Society for Scientific Advancement. She is passionate about implementing a framework that can elevate the nature of biomedical research in Jamaica and the Caribbean with a specific focus on anticancer research. Such a framework that will utilize the country's own natural resources can contribute to improving Jamaica's and the Caribbean's economic standing as they obtain a global competitive edge. She is also deeply committed to improving science awareness and interest at the primary and secondary levels.