Modern Phytomedicine: Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs

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Iqbal Ahmad, Farrukh Aqil, Mohammad Owais
John Wiley & Sons, 2006/12/13 - 404 ページ
This timely and original handbook paves the way to success in plant-based drug development, systematically addressing the issues facing a pharmaceutical scientist who wants to turn a plant compound into a safe and effective drug. Plant pharmacologists from around the world demonstrate the potentials and pitfalls involved, with many of the studies and experiments reported here published for the first time. The result is a valuable source of information unavailable elsewhere.
 

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1 Bioactive Phytocompounds New Approaches in the Phytosciences
1
2 Quality Control Screening Toxicity and Regulation of Herbal Drugs
25
3 Herbal Medicines Prospects and Constraints
59
4 Bioactive Phytocompounds and Products Traditionally Used in Japan
79
5 Plant Extracts Used to Manage Bacterial Fungal and Parasitic Infections in Southern Africa
97
6 Biological and Toxicological Properties of Moroccan Plant Extracts Advances in Research
123
7 AntiMRSA and AntiVRE Activities of Phytoalexins and Phytoncides Isolated from Tropical Plants
137
8 Methods for Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts
157
11 An Alternative Holistic Medicinal Approach to the Total Management of Hepatic Disorders A Novel Polyherbal Formulation
233
12 Traditional Plants and Herbal Remedies Used in the Treatment of Diarrheal Disease Mode of Action Quality Efficacy and Safety Considerations
247
13 Mutagenicity and Antimutagenicity of Medicinal Plants
271
14 Potential of PlantDerived Products in the Treatment of Mycobacterial Infections
293
15 Ethnomedicinal Antivirals Scope and Opportunity
313
16 Immunomodulatory Effects of Phytocompounds
341
17 Use of a Liposomal Delivery System for HerbalBased Therapeutics with a Focus on Clove Oil
357
Subject Index
369

9 Targeted Screening of Bioactive Plant Extracts and Phytocompounds Against Problematic Groups of MultidrugResistant Bacteria
173
10 Activity of Plant Extracts and PlantDerived Compounds against DrugResistant Microorganisms
199

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Iqbal Ahmad is a senior lecturer of agricultural microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of the Medicinal Plants Research Project of the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. A graduate of AMU, he worked as a research scientist at the Himalaya Drug Company before moving to the AMU's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He has so far screened more than 150 traditional Indian medicinal plants for their biological activities and potential prospection.

Farrukh Aqil is Project Fellow working on the major research project on medicinal plants at the AMU Department of Agricultural Microbiology. His current work includes biological activities of Indian medicinal plants against MDR bacteria, antioxidants, and the antimutagenicity potential of bioactive plant extracts.

Mohammad Owais currently holds a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He trained at CDRI, Lucknow and IMTECH, Chandigarh, and worked during his post doctoral training with Dr. R. C. Gallo's group at the NIH, USA. His present work is focusing on the screening of various herbal drugs for their potential to treat drug resistant infections, and developing and applying drug delivery systems to herbal drugs to assess the efficacy, stability and toxicity in animal models.

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