Yaniv, Z. ed.
Handbook of Medicinal Plants
Haworth Press 2005.
500 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-56022-994-2
12,400円
Contents
1. Trends and Challenges in Phytomedicine: Research in the New Millennium/ 2. History of Application of Medicinal Plants in China/ 3. Ethnopharmacology of Traditional Chinese Drugs from Medicinal Plants/ 4. Research and Development of New Drugs Originating from Chinese Medicinal Plants/ 5. African Medicinal Plants/ 6. Dilemmas and Solutions: Native American Plant Knowledge/ 7. Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine of the Amazonian Indians/ 8. Healers and Physicians in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Cultures/ 9. Remedies from the Bush: Traditional Medicine Among the Australian Aborigines/ 10. Production and Breeding of Medicinal Plants/ 11. Biological Screening of Medicinal Plants/ 12. Biotechnology in Medicinal Crop Improvement / 13. In Vitro Cultivation of Medicinal Plants/ 14. Medicinal Plants in the Prevention and Therapy of Cancer/ 15. Phytochemicals and Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease/ 16. A Modern Look at Folkloric Use of Anti-Infective Agents/ 17. Use of Medicinal Plants in CNS Disorders/ 18. Herbal Medicine in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease/ 19. Bioactive Saponins from Plants: Recent Developments/ 20. Natural Products and Herbal Medicines in the Gastrointestinal Tract/ 21. Challenges and Threats to Interdisciplinary Medicinal Plant Research/ Index Reference Notes Included
* The Handbook of Medicinal Plants explores state-of-the-art developments in the field of botanical medicine. Nineteen experts from around the world provide vital information on natural products and herbal medicines from their earliest relevance in various cultures to today's cutting-edge biotechnologies. Educated readers, practitioners, and academics of natural sciences will benefit from the textﾕs rich list of references as well as numerous tables, figures, and color photographs and illustrations. * The Handbook of Medicinal Plants is divided into three main sections. The first section covers the use of herbal medicines throughout history in China, Australia, the Americas, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, emphasizing the need for future medicinal plant research. The second section discusses the latest technologies in production and breeding, crop improvement, farming, and plant research. *
Tracy, T. S. & Kingston, R. L
Herbal Products 2nd ed.
Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology
Humana Press 2007.3
361 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-58829-313-0
19,600円
Contents
1: Ma Huang/ 2: Kava/ 3: Ginkgo biloba/ 4: Valerian/ 5: St. John's Wort/ 6: Echinacea/ 7: Feverfew/ 8: Garlic/ 9: Ginger/ 10: Saw Palmetto/ 11: Panax Ginseng/ 12: Cranberry/ 13: Hawthorn/ 14: Evening Primrose/ 15: Citrus aurantium/ 16: Vitex agnus-castus/ 17: Billberry/
* From reviews of the first edition: ﾒThis is a useful and enlightening book. It is a nice alternative to the multiple other options on supplements as it uses reliable sources and is scientifically based.ﾓ-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal Herbal Products: Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Second Edition builds on the informative foundation laid by its predecessor. This fully revised and expanded second edition boasts more than 200 new references that document efficacy studies and adverse effects and four new chapters devoted to dietary products. Practitioners and researchers will find that this volume is a comprehensive resource for objective clinical information about the potential uses, efficacy, and safety of herbal medicines. *
Ahmad, I. et al. ed.
Modern Phytomedicine
Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs
Wiley -VCH 2007.1
404 pp.(H)
ISBN 3-527-31530-6
21,400円
Contents
1 Bioactive Phytocompounds: New Approaches in the Phytosciences/ 2 Quality Control, Screening, Toxicity, and Regulation of Herbal Drugs/ 3 Herbal Medicines: Prospects and Constraints/ 4 Bioactive Phytocompounds and Products Traditionally Used in Japan/ 5 Plant Extracts Used to Manage Bacterial, Fungal, and Parasitic Infections in Southern Africa/ 6 Biological and Toxicological Properties of Moroccan Plant Extracts: Advances in Research/ 7 Anti-MRSA and Anti-VRE Activities of Phytoalexins and Phytoncides Isolated from Tropical Plants/ 8 Methods for Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts/ 9 Targeted Screening of Bioactive Plant Extracts and Phytocompounds Against Problematic Groups of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria/ 10 Activity of Plant Extracts and Plant-Derived Compounds against Drug-Resistant Microorganisms/ 11 An Alternative Holistic Medicinal Approach to the Total Management of Hepatic Disorders: A Novel Polyherbal Formulation/ 12 Traditional Plants and Herbal Remedies Used in the Treatment of Diarrheal Disease: Mode of Action, Quality, Efficacy, and Safety Considerations/ 13 Mutagenicity and Antimutagenicity of Medicinal Plants/ 14 Potential of Plant-Derived Products in the Treatment of Mycobacterial Infections/ 15 Ethnomedicinal Antivirals: Scope and Opportunity/ 16 Immunomodulatory Effects of Phytocompounds/ 17 Use of a Liposomal Delivery System for Herbal-Based Therapeutics/ Subject Index/
* 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. *
Kayser, O. & Quax, W.J. ed.
Medicinal Plant Biotechnology
From Basic Research to Industrial Applications
薬用植物のバイオテクノロジー
Wiley -VCH 2007.1
618 pp.(H)
ISBN 3-527-31443-1
35,400円
Contents
* 本書は科学的・医学的・経済的に重要な医用植物と遺伝子組み換え技術を解説します。細胞培養技術や遺伝子工学、二次代謝から生体活性化合物の生産への遺伝子組み換え植物の利用まで幅広い内容を収録しています。随所に実用的な事例を紹介しており、例えば癌治療薬の製造や機能性食品、植物の味物質などが取り上げられています。
Volume I.
1 The Engineering of Medicinal Plants: Prospects and Limitations of Medicinal Plant Biotechnology/ 2 Metabolomics/ 3 HPLC-NMR Techniques for Plant Extract Analysis/ 4 Plant-Associated Microorganisms (Endophytes) as a New Source of Bioactive Natural Products/ 5 DNA Profiling of Plants/ 6 Bioprospecting: The Search for Bioactive Lead Structures from Nature/ 7 Biotechnological Approaches for the Production of some Promising Plant-Based Chemotherapeutics / 8 In-Vitro Culturing Techniques of Medicinal Plants/ 9 Biotechnological Methods for Selection of High-Yielding Cell Lines and Production of Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal Plants/ 10 Impact of Whole-Genome and Expressed Sequence Tag Databases on the Study of Plant Secondary Metabolism / 11 Biotechnology of Solanaceae Alkaloids: A Model or an Industrial Perspective? /
Volume II.
12 Plant Cell Cultures: Production of Biologically Important Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal Plants of Taiwan/ 13 Exploring and Accessing Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis in Engineered Microbial Hosts/ 14 Production of Therapeutic Antibodies in Plants/ 15 Glycosylation of Recombinant Proteins in Plants/ 16 Frontiers in Transgenic Medicinal Plants Research/ 17 Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Biotechnology/ 18 Breeding of Medicinal Plants/ 19 Camptothecin Production in Cell Cultures of Ophiorrhiza Species/ 20 Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Flavor Compounds and Essential Oils/ 21 Ginkgo biloba and Production of Secondary Metabolites/ 22 Production of Paclitaxel in Plant Cell Cultures/ 23 Biological Production of Artemisinin for Malaria Therapy/ References/ Subject Index/ *
Rai, M. et al.
Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compounds
Advances in Phytomedicine, Vol.3
Elsevier Science Ltd. 2006.11
514 pp.(H)
ISBN 0-444-52241-7
31,500円
Contents
1.Natural compounds as antioxidant and moulting inhibitors can play a role as a model for search of new botanical pesticides/ 2.Pesticides Based on Plant Essential Oils: From Traditional Practice to Commercialization Natural substrates and Inhibitors of Multidrug Resistant Pumps (MDRs) redefine the plant antimicrobials/ 3.Rational Design of Multifunctional Anti-Salmonella Agents Based on Natural Products Role of Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae) for the control of insect and acari: Present status and future prospects/ 4.Bioactivity of Fabaceous Plants Against Food-borne and Plant Pathogens: Potentials and Limitations/ 5.Screening of Plants Against Fungi Affecting Crops and Stored Foods/ 6.Opportunities and potentials of botanical extracts and products for management of insect pests in cruciferous vegetables/ 7.The Potential for Using Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) Extracts for Pine Weevil Management in Temperate Forestry/ 8.Plant Allelochemicals in Thrips Control Strategies/ 9.Importance of plant secondary metabolites for protection against insects and microbial infections/ 10.Naturally Occurring House Dust Mites Control Agents: Development and Commercialization/ 11.The search for plant-derived compounds with antifeedant activity/ 12.An overview of the antimicrobial properties of mexican medicinal plants/ 13.Promissory botanical repellentsdeterrents for managing two key tropical insect pests, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and the mahogany shootborer Hypsipyla grandella/ 14.Naturally occurring anti-insect proteins: Current status and future aspects/ 15.Antifungal Natural Products : Assays and Applications/ * This timely book provides an overview of natural products/botanicals used for the management of insect-pest and diseases. It will help readers to update and widen their knowledge about natural products and their bio-activities against plant pathogens. *
Lawrence, B.M.
Mint: The Genus Mentha
CRC Press 2006.12
576 pp.
ISBN 0-8493-0779-1
18,200円
Contents
1.Mentha: An Overview of its Classification and Relationships/ 2.Anatomy, Physiology, Biosynthesis, Molecular Biology, Tissue Culture and Biotechnology of Mint Essential Oil Production/ 3.Commercial Mint Species Grown in the United States/ 4.The Cultivation of Mints in India/ 5.Production of Mint in China/ 6.The Distillation of Mint Oils/ 7.The Composition of Commercially Important Mints/ 8.Oil Composition of the Other Mentha Species and Hybrids/ 9.World Production and Quality Control of Mint Oils and Their Commercially Important Isolates/ 10.Natural and Synthetic Menthol,/ 11.The Genuineness of Mint Oils/ 12.Biological and Toxicological Properties of Mint Oils and Their Major Isolates: Safety Assessment/ 13.Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils and Constituents of Mentha Species/ 14.Mentha: Economic Uses/
* For thousands of years mint has enjoyed an honored place in pharmacopoeias and kitchen cupboards in India, China, Europe, North America, and elsewhere. Today the amount of essential oils produced from the four major mint species (cornmint, peppermint, Native spearmint, and Scotch spearmint) exceeds 23,000 metric tonnes annually with a market value of more than $400 million. This makes mint the most economically important essential oil.
* Continuing in the esteemed tradition of the previous volumes in the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Series, Mint: The Genus Mentha presents an in-depth look at the genus, providing information on its history, production, chemical constituents, market trends, and medicinal and nutritional uses. *
Cassells, A.C. & Gahan, P.B.
Dictionary of Plant Tissue Culture
Food Products Press 2006.
265 pp. (H)
ISBN 1-56022-918-7
7,400円
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments/ Userﾕs Guide/ The Dictionary/ Bibliography/
* Concise definitions and descriptions to more than 1,000 terms illustrated and fully referenced
* The Dictionary of Plant Tissue Culture is a user-friendly A-to-Z resource for the technical terms that apply to plant cell, tissue, and organ culture. Filled with illustrations of key concepts and references to up-to-date textbooks, papers, and reviews, this handy guidebook defines both the terms that come from plant tissue culture, and those that originate from plant anatomy, genetics, stress physiology, growth regular research, microbiology, and plant pathology. Itﾕs an essential resource for anyone involved in tissue culture or using plant tissue culture systems for plant cloning, secondary metabolic production, plant pathology, and genetic manipulations. *
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