Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health /

Rain forest plants

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Balick, Michael J., 1952-, Elisabetsky, Elaine, Laird, Sarah A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [1996]
Series:Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Biodiversity prospecting, drug development, and conservation
  • Natural products and medicine: an overview / Varro E. Tyler
  • Biological diversity, chemical diversity, and the search for new pharmaceuticals / James D. McChesney
  • Development of pharmaceutical companies based on plant products: suggested approaches / Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp, and Roy W. Stahlhut
  • Chemical approaches to the study of ethnomedicines / Domingos Sávio Nunes.
  • The contribution of the physician to medicinal plant research / Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach
  • Conservation and tropical medicinal plant research / Steven R. King
  • Higher plants versus microorganisms: their future in pharmaceutical research / Georg Albers-Schönberg
  • Topotecan development: an example of the evolution of natural product drug discovery research / Brad K. Carté and Randall K. Johnson
  • Shaman pharmaceuticals' approach to drug development / Lisa A. Conte.
  • Drug discovery and development at the National Cancer Institute: the role of natural products of plant origin / Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd
  • The Merck/INBio agreement: a pharmaceutical company perspective / Lynn Helena Caporale
  • Biodiversity prospecting / Walter V. Reid ... [et al.]
  • Property rights and genetic resources: a framework for analysis / Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. and Michael J. Balick.
  • Monetizing the pharmacological benefits of plants / Peter P. Principe
  • Capturing the pharmaceutical value of species information: opportunities for developing countries / Bruce A. Aylward
  • Pt. 2. Country and regional programs in medicinal plant research and health care
  • Resource utilization and conservation of biodiversity in Africa / Maurice M. Iwu
  • The economic value and potential for plant-derived pharmaceuticals from Ghana / G.T. Odamtten, E. Laing, and D.K. Abbiw.
  • The Rwanda experience in enhancing and commercializing the use of traditional medicinal plants / Luc Van Puyvelde
  • The role of medicinal plants in health care in India / James A. Duke
  • A standardized Commiphora wightii preparation for management of hyperlipidemic disorders / B.N. Dhawan
  • Plant explorations in Asia under the sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991: an overview / Djaja Doel Soejarto ... [et al.]
  • Medicinal plants of Mexico: a program for their scientific validation / Xavier Lozoya, M.D..
  • TRAMIL: a research project on the medicinal plant resources of the Caribbean / Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto
  • Ethnopharmacological studies and biological conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick ... [et al.]
  • Tropical Medicinal Plant Conservation and Development projects: the case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) / Ana Sittenfeld
  • FENAMAD's program in traditional medicine: an integrated approach to health care in the Peruvian amazon / Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D.