Plant bioactives and drug discovery principles, practice, and perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Valdir Cechinel-Filho. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012. - xix, 565 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). - Wiley series in drug discovery and development . - Wiley series in drug discovery and development. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural products in drug discovery : recents advances / Gordon M. Cragg, Paul G. Grothaus, David J. Newman -- Modern approaches in the search for new active compounds from crude extracts of natural sources / Emerson F. Queiroz, Kurt Hostettmann, Jean-Luc Wolfender -- Natural product as lead compounds in medicinal chemistry / Eliezer J. Barreiro, Carlos A.M. Fraga, Lidia M. Lima -- The importance of structural manipulation of natural compounds in drug discovery and development / Arturo San Feliciano ... [et al.] -- The action of plants and their constituents on the central nervous system / Fulvio R. Mendes ... [et al.] -- The role of natural products in discovery of new anti-infective agents with emphasis on antifungal compounds / Maximiliano Sortino ... [et al.] -- Antiulcer agents from higher plants / Luiz C. Klein-Junior, José R. Santin, Sérgio F. de Andrade -- Recent progress in the chemistry and biology of paclitaxel (Taxol) and related taxanes / Jun Qi, Jielu Zhao, David G.I. Kingston -- Cancer chemopreventive activity of higher plants / A. Douglas Kinghorn ... [et al.] -- Medicinal plants and pharmaceutical technology / Ruth M. Lucinda da Silva, Angélica G. Couto, Tania M.B. Bresolin -- Natural products in clinical trials / Sigrun Chrubasik -- The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on the production of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants / Dayana R. Gouveia, Leonardo Gobbo-Neto, Norberto P. Lopes -- Production of bioactives compounds : the importance of Pictet-Spengler reaction in the XXI century / Pilar Menendez ... [et al.] -- Screening methods for drug discovery from plants / Alan L. Harvey -- Phytotherapeutics: intellectual property rights, global market, and global regulatory guidelines / James D. McChesney, Raymond Cooper, Kip Vought -- Cooperation between the pharmaceutical industry and academic institutions in drug discovery / Valdir Cechinel Filho, Rivaldo Niero, and Rosendo A. Yunes.


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