
Phytochemistry, the Military and Health
Phytotoxins and Natural Defenses
Description
Key Features
- Covers the contribution that phytochemicals play in safety and security
- Contains insights that will help in the development of antidotes against phytochemical and other chemical weapons
- Categorizes plants in terms of their usefulness as well as the potential security risks they possess
Readership
Security experts, chemical control and regulatory agencies, government agencies, medical professionals, pharmacists and pharmacologists, toxicologists and pharmaceutical industries
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to phytochemicals and the military
Part A: Uses and historical perspectives of plants and their chemicals
2. Historical use of plants in warfare
3. Importance of forests to the military beyond physical training
4. Phytochemicals used in body agility and remediation from tissue mutilation
5. Important histaminic and antihistaminic plants and their potential role in military operations
6. Plants as warfare strategic tools
7. Phyto-therapy against conflict related trauma
8. Important plants in emergency military surgical procedures
9. Potential wartime phyto-sedatives for the field
10. Useful plants and phytochemicals for wound healing and physical fitness
11. Emergency phytomedicine during armed conflictsPart B: Plants and phytochemicals used as therapeutics
12. War and conventional plant-based drug development
13. Development of phyto-antidotes against chemical agents
14. Molecular optimization of phytochemicals into weapons and antidotesPart C: The good and adverse sides of phytocompounds
15. Important military amphibious phytotoxins
16. Classes of phytochemical weapons
17. Phytochemical based nano-particles as military foes and friends
18. Nanotechnology-targeted herbal drug delivery as fast and efficient antidotes against systemic poisons
19. Terrorism, counter-terrorism and phytochemicalsPart D: Mechanistic approach to phyto-chemical weapons
20. Chemical and pharmacological mechanisms of nerve agent poisoning
21. Mechanisms of phytochemicals as antidotes to chemical weapons
22. Application of metabolomics in emergency phytochemical poisoning and remediationPart E: Management, protocols, regulation and future perspectives of phytochemicals
23. Laboratory protocols on handling phytochemical warfare agents
24. Detection and identification of phytochemical weapons
25. Management and regulation of potential weaponizable plants
26. All-plant emergency first aid kits innovations
27. The future of phytochemicals in the military
28. Conclusions
Product details
- No. of pages: 606
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: March 2, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128215562
- eBook ISBN: 9780128232309
About the Editors
Andrew Mtewa
Affiliations and Expertise
Chukwuebuka Egbuna
Affiliations and Expertise
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