Recent Trends in Medicinal Plants Research
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Recent Trends in Medicinal Plants Research

1st Edition - July 6, 2012

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  • Editor: Lie-Fen Shyur
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123945914
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123947994

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Plants and other living organisms have great potential to treat human disease. There are two distinct types of biomedical research that seek to develop this potential. One type of research explores the value of medicinal plants as traditionally used and studies of these plants have the potential to determine which plants are most potent, optimize dosages and dose forms, and identify safety risks. Another type of research uses bioassays to identify single molecules from plants that have interesting bioactivities in isolation and might be useful lead compounds for the development of pharmaceutical drugs. This new volume of Advances in Botanical Research covers the recent trends in Medicinal Plants Research over 11 chapters. Topics that are covered include Development of Drugs from Plants – Regulation and Evaluation, Chinese Herbal Medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Taxol, camptothecin and beyond for cancer therapy.

Key Features

  • Covers the recent trends in medicinal plants research over 11 chapters
  • Topics that are covered include Development of Drugs from Plants – Regulation and Evaluation, Chinese Herbal Medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Taxol, camptothecin and beyond for cancer therapy

Readership

Postgraduates and researchers in plant sciences, including botany, plant biochemistry, plant physiology, plant pathology, virology, entomology, and molecular biology

Table of Contents

    1. Authentication and Quality Assessment of the Antitussive Herb Baibu (Radix Stemonae)

      2. Paul Pui-Hay But, Pang-Chui Shaw, Ge Lin, Ren-Wang Jiang, and Yan-Tong Xu

    2. In Vitro Propagation and Approaches for Metabolites Production in Medicinal Plants

      3. Sushim Kumar Gupta, Chao-Lin Kuo, Hung-Chi Chang, Hsiao-Sung Chan, Emily Chin-Fun Chen, Fu- Shin Chueh and Hsin-Sheng Tsay

    3. Regulation of Inflammation-Mediated Chronic Diseases by Botanicals

      4. Bokyung Sung, Sahdeo Prasad, Subash C. Gupta, Sridevi Patchva, and Bharat B. Aggarwal

    4. Developing phytocompounds from medicinal plants as immunomodulators

      5. Chih-Chun Wen, Hui-Ming Chen and Ning-Sun Yang

    5. Chinese Herbal Medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis

      6. Chi Zhang, Miao Jiang, Hongtao Guo, Guang Zheng, Jing Yang and Aiping Lu

    6. Ligusticum chuanxiong and its decoctions: effects and underlying mechanisms of action on stroke

      7. Cindy L.H. Yang, Terry C.T. Or, Jonathan S.H. Lau and Allan S.Y. Lau

    7. Potential of "omics" technologies for implementation in research on phytotherapeutical toxicology

      8. Tolga Eichhorn, Henry Johannes Greten and Thomas Efferth

    8. Taxol, camptothecin and beyond for cancer therapy

      9. Wai-leng Lee, Jeng-Yuan shiau and Lie-Fen Shyur

    9. Herbal medicine: Toxicity and recent trends in assessing their potential toxic effects

      10. Chit Shing Jackson Woo, Jonathan See Han Lau and Hani El-Nezami

    10. Development of Drugs from Plants – Regulation and Evaluation

      11. Michael Rieder and John R. Bend

    11. Effects of beta-glucans on different immune cell populations and cancers

    Daniel Man-yuen Sze and Godfrey Chi-Fung Chan

Product details

  • No. of pages: 468
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2012
  • Published: July 6, 2012
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123945914
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123947994

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