Iqbal Ahmad

Modern Phytomedicine

Ed. by Iqbal Ahmad, Farrukh Aqil and Mohammad Owais

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this timely and original handbook plant pharmacologists from around the world demonstrate the potentials and pitfalls involved in turning traditionally used medicinal plants into safe and effective drugs. A valuable source of otherwise unpublished information.

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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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-VCH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1131530 000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 855g
• ISBN-13: 9783527315307
• ISBN-10: 3527315306
• Artikelnr.: 20824228

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Bioactive Phytocompounds (BPs): New Approach on Modern Phytoscience Quality
Control, Screening, Toxicity and Regulations of Herbal Drugs Herbal
Medicine: Prospects and Constraints Bioactive Phytocompounds and Products
Traditionally used in Japan Plant Extracts used to manage Bacterial, Fungal
and Parasitic Infections in Southern Africa Biological and Toxicological
Properties of Moroccan Plant Extracts Anti-MRSA and Anti-VRE Activities of
Phytoalexin and Phytoncide Isolated from Tropical Plants Methods for
Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts Targeted Screening of
Bioactive Plant Extracts and Phytocompounds Activity of Plant Extracts and
Plant-derived Compounds against Drug-resistant Microorganisms Alternative
Holistic Medicinal Approach in Total Management of Hepatic Disorders
Traditional Plant and Herbal Remedies Used in the Treatment of Diarrhoeal
Disease Mutagenicity and Antimutagenic Potentials of Plant Extracts and
Phytocompound Potential of Plant-derived Products in the Treatment of
Mycobacterial Infections Ethnomedicinal Antivirals: Scope and Opportunity
Immunomodulatory Effects of Phytocompounds Use of Liposomal Delivery System
for Herbal-based Therapeutics

Rezensionen

"Die Kenntnis der traditionellen Verwendung von Arzneipflanzen liefert über das kulturgeschichtliche Interesse hinaus wertvolle Hinweise zu Indikation und Wirkweise." - Der neue Apotheker