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  title info:
    title: Ethnomedicine and drug discovery
  name:
    name part: Iwu, Maurice M.
  name:
    name part: Wootton, Jacqueline C.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Elsevier
    date issued: 2002
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The emergence of new infectious, chronic and drug resistant diseases have prompted scientists to look towards medicinal plants as agents for treatment and prevention. This book provides an interphase between ethnomedical and ethnobotanical approaches to new drug discovery and advances in biotechnology and molecular science that has made it increasingly feasible to transform traditional medicines into modern drugs. These novel approaches also raise new issues and the volume explores economic, ethical and policy considerations of drug development based on indigenous knowledge or traditional medicine. This work also features standardization and development of phytomedicines for major therapeutic indications, including emerging infectious diseases affecting developing and developed countries. The publication provides state-of-the-art information on the most innovative science, the research, the industry, the market, and the future of ethnomedicine and drug discovery.
  table of contents: Therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine / Maurice M Iwu -- Drugs from nature : past achievements, future prospects / Gordon M Cragg and David J Newman -- Natural products for high-throughput screening / Alan L Harvey -- Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases / Thomas JS Carlson -- Development of HerbMed : an interactive, evidence-based herbal database / Jacqueline C Wootton -- Natural products : a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist / S Mbua Ngale Efange -- Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare : a framework for south-eastern Nigeria / Chioma Obijiofor -- Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge : problems, concepts and lessons for the future / Robert Lettington -- Bioprospecting : using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation / Anthony Onugu -- Balancing conservation with utilization : restoring populations of commercially valuable medicinal herbs in forests and agroforests / Richard A Cech -- Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee : historical and current applications / Jody E Noé -- Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action / Elaine Elisabetsky -- Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria : some results / Joseph I Okogun --Plants, products and people : southern African perspectives / Nigel Gericke -- Development of antimalarial agents and drugs for parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine : the Walter Reed experience / Brian G Schuster -- Health foods in anti-aging therapy : reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases / Lisa Meserole -- Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles : definitions under Article 8 (j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity / Katy Moran -- Garcinia kola : a new look at an old adaptogenic agent / Maurice M Iwu, Angela Duncan Diop, Lisa Meserole and Ch…
  note: [edited by] Maurice M. Iwu, Jackie C. Wootten.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacognosy
  subject:
    topic: Ethnobotany
  subject:
    topic: Medicinal plants
  subject:
    topic: Materia medica, Vegetable
  subject:
    topic: Ethnobotany
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Traditional
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacognosy
  subject:
    topic: Phytotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Herbal Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Plants, Medicinal
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacognosie
  subject:
    topic: Ethnobotanique
  subject:
    topic: Plantes médicinales
  subject:
    topic: Phytothérapie
  subject:
    topic: HEALTH & FITNESS
    topic: Herbal Medications
  subject:
    topic: Ethnobotany
  subject:
    topic: Materia medica, Vegetable
  subject:
    topic: Medicinal plants
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacognosy
  classification: RS160 .E847 2002eb
  classification: 615/.321
  classification: 2002 L-335
  classification: QV 766 E84 2002
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    title info:
      title: Ethnomedicine and drug discovery
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2002
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 2001055558
    identifier: (OCoLC)48390561
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  identifier: 2001055558
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070802
    record change date: 20260326150631.7
    record identifier: in00005731933
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng