Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : biodiversity and its importance to human health /
Rain forest plants
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
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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.