Natural products : chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology
/ Goutam Brahmachari
- New Delhi : Narosa, 2009
- xviii, 822 p.
includes index
1. Foreword ; 2. Preface ; 3. List of Contributors ; 4. Mother Nature ; 5. An Inexhaustible Source of Drugs and Lead Molecules ; 6. Plant Natural Products say "NO Way" to Mammalian Nitric Oxide Synthases ; 7. Natural Products as Inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases ; 8. Natural Products as Anticancer Agents: An Overview ; 9. Immunomodulatory and Anti-tumor Actions of Tinospora Cordifolia (Guduchi) ; 10. Natural Products and Protozoan Neglected Diseases: Malaria, Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis ; 11. Balanites Aegyptiaca Saponins: Chemistry and Applications ; 12. Physiological Activity of Essential Oils: Aromatherapy for Holistic Healing ; 13. Chemical Studies on Taxus Canadensis ; 14. Chemical and Pharmacological research of the Plants from Genus Celastrus ; 15. Studies on the Biological Activity of the Plants of the Family Thymelaeaceae (1990-2007) ; 16. Plant Terpenoids: Old Secondary Metabolites with New Therapeutic Properties ; 17. Triterpenes for the Plants of the Family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae): Chemistry and Biological Activities ; 18. A New Flavonoidal Glycoside from Acacia Arabica (Lam.) Willd.: Chemistry and Antimicrobial Activity ; 19. Sulfated Flavonoids: Nature Playing with the Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Balance ; 20. Natural Prenylated Flavones: Chemistry and Biological Activities ; 21. An Overview ; 22. An Account on Color Reagents for Detection of Amino Acids and Interaction of Metal Ions with Some Non-Conventional Seed Proteins ; 23. X-Ray Crystallographic Studies and Role of Weak Intermolecular Interactions in Some Oxygen Heterocycles ; 24. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Behaviour of Natural Abietane-Diterpenoids: A Look Through ; 25. Michael Addition Reaction: Applications in Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products ;