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Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry. This series covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products. Content: Front MatterPage iii CopyrightPage iv ContributorsPages xiii-xiv PrefacePages xv-xviAtta-Ur-Rahman Chapter 1 - Potentially Chemopreventive Triterpenoids and Other Secondary Metabolites From Plants and FungiPages 1-50Toshihiro Akihisa, Jie Zhang, Harukuni Tokuda Chapter 2 - Structural Diversity, Natural Sources and Pharmacological Potential of Naturally Occurring A-Seco-TriterpenoidsPages 51-149Victoria V. Grishko, Natalia V. Galaiko Chapter 3 - Kaurenoic Acid: A Diterpene With a Wide Range of Biological ActivitiesPages 151-174Nemesio Villa-Ruano, Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria, Yesenia Pacheco-Hernández Chapter 4 - Review of Patents Based on Triterpene Glycosides of Sea CucumbersPages 175-200Dmitry L. Aminin, Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya, Evgeny A. Pislyagin, Alexandra S. Silchenko, Sergey A. Avilov, Natalia I. Stadnichenko, Peter D. Collin, Vladimir I. Kalinin Chapter 5 - Bioactive Dietary Compounds Regulate Mitochondrial Apoptosis Signaling in Ambivalent Way to Function as Neuroprotective or Antitumor AgentsPages 201-222Makoto Naoi, Yuqiu Wu, Masayo Shamoto-Nagai, Wakako Maruyama Chapter 6 - Dietary Carotenoids for Reduction of Cancer RiskPages 223-251José M. Lorenzo, Paulo E. Munekata Chapter 7 - Dihydrochalcones: Occurrence in the Plant Kingdom, Chemistry and Biological ActivitiesPages 253-381Céline Rivière Chapter 8 - Synthetic Advances in the Indane Natural Product Scaffolds as Drug Candidates: A ReviewPages 383-434Naseem Ahmed Chapter 9 - Garcinoic Acid: A Promising Bioactive Natural Product for Better Understanding the Physiological Functions of Tocopherol MetabolitesPages 435-481Stefan Kluge, Martin Schubert, Lisa Schmölz, Marc Birringer, Maria Wallert, Stefan Lorkowski Chapter 10 - Antibiotics Derived From Marine Organisms: Their Chemistry and Biological Mode of ActionPages 483-515Bibi Nazia Auckloo, Bin Wu IndexPages 517-535