Pharmacy & Drugs
Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products Vol 6: Extraction, Isolation & Characterization
Description
Natural products have always been and will remain important sources of new drug molecules. Resurgence in the use of Herbal drugs and the need for their standardization on the basis of Marker compounds gave a boost to research on natural products during the last two decades. Advances in isolation and structure determination methods including hyphenated techniques like GC-MS, LC-PDA, LC-MS, LC-FTIR, LC-NMR, LC-NMR-MS, CE-MS and X-Ray analysis coupled with online identification have proved a boon to research in natural products. A sound isolation strategy has helped in the isolation and characterization of many bioactive molecules. Bioactivity guided extraction and fractionation of medicinal plants is a feature of routine in isolating bioactive components from natural sources. These techniques are not only restricted to plant sources but are being applied to microbial, marine and even fungal sources. The present volume Extraction, Isolation & Characterization in the series Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products incorporates research articles and review papers written by experts in the field of natural product chemistry covering the latest trends in research on biomolecules including isolation methods and structure determination.
Table of Contents
Chemical Constituents and Pharmacology of the Neotropical Burseraceae (Brazil), Phenolic Compounds from Plumbago zeylanica and their Cytotoxicity (Belgium), Extraction, Characterization and Biological Properties of 4-O-Methyl Glucuronoxylan from Hard Wood A Review (France), Biologically Active Naphthaquinones from Nature (India), Biological Function of Glycoproteins (South Korea), Recent Insights on the Chemistry and Pharmacology of Qithasteroids (Brazil), Are Well-Studied Snake Venoms Well Investigated? Strategy for Isolation of New Polypeptides from Snake Venom (Moscow), Extraction, Isolation and Characterization of Solanesol from Nicotiana tobacum L. (India), Cinnamon: Molecular Evidence For The Health Benefits Through Its Insulin-Like And Anti-Inflammatory Effects (USA), Flax Cyanogenic Glycosides (Canada), Isolation and preliminary characterization of antimicrobial proteins and peptides from Ctenophores and Cnidaria (USA), Plants of the Genus: Commiphora - their Chemistry (India), Secondary Metabolites and Biological Activities of some Gentianaceae Species from Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia), Chitin and Chitosan: Extraction and Characterization (Egypt), Chemical Composition of the Mango Stem Bark Extract (Mangifera indica L.) (Cuba)