Novel compounds from natural products in the new millennium : potential and challenges /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bay, Boon-Huat, Zhu, Yi-Zhun
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Plants in drug discovery - creating a new vision
  • The bio-extraction industry in Jamaica : potential and challenges
  • Structural studies of drug metabolising enzymes and the relevance to natural product development
  • Bioinformatics - species diversity databases : tools for facilitating natural products research
  • From genomes to drugs with bioinformatics
  • Yeast-based technologies for high throughput screening of natural anti-viral agents
  • Use of high-density oligonucleotide microarrays for gene expression profiling in natural product research
  • Limitations of natural pesticides : a challenge to scientists
  • Bioactivity of hexane extract of Blighia sapida Konig. on the cattle tick, Boophilus microplus and the sweet potato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus
  • Antibacterial screening of Tragia involucrata L. (euphorbiaceae) - a tribal used medicinal plant
  • Effect of crude papaya latex on rats' pregnancy
  • 1-cyano-2-hydroxy-3-butene : a plant nitrile that induces apoptosis in pancreatic acinar cells and reduces the severity of acute pancreatitis
  • The liver protective effect of sesamin
  • Endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation induced by extracts of some Chinese medicinal herbs traditionally used to remove circulatory stagnation : an update
  • Effect of chronic administration of aqueous Azadirachta indica (neem) leaf extract on the cardiovascular system in the rat
  • The anti-hypertensive effect of sesamin
  • Effects of Salvia miltiorrhiza after acute myocardial infarction in rats
  • The antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects of sesamin
  • Anticancer and immunomodulatroy potential of DRF-3188, an analogue of andrographolide
  • Immunomodulating property of Astragalus membranaceus and Curcuma aromatica
  • Induction of breast tumours in rats in assaying natural products for anti-tumour properties
  • Cancer diagnosis using the novel photosensitizer hypericin
  • Chemopreventive efficacy of apigenin against N-nitrosodiethylamine-induced and phenobarbital-promoted experimental hepatoma
  • The effects of saponin from sea cucumber (Holothuria atra Jaeger) on CEM-SS T-lyphoblastic cells
  • Lentinan - a medically valuable glucan
  • Turmeric and colon cancer
  • Immunotherapy of bladder cancer using microbes
  • Modulation of hypericin-based phototoxicity in nasopharyngeal cancer
  • Research and development of natural products in developing countries : need for venture capital
  • Protection of ideas, inventions, trade marks, copyrights and products under the intellectual property law