Phytochemicals in Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Bioactivity and Drug Discovery

Description

Benefitting from phytochemicals in medicinal plants has lately gained increasingly more global relevance. The medicinal bioactivity might range from wound healing activity to anti-inflammatory and anti-viral effects. This work describes the challenging scientific process of systematic identification and taxonomy through molecular profiling and nanoparticle production from plant extracts until a final use for e.g. cancer or HIV treatment. From the table of contents PART A: Biodiversity & Traditional Knowledge. __Habitats and Distribution. __Threats and Conservation. __Culture, tradition and indigenous practices. PART B: Phytochemical constituents – Molecules and Characterization Techniques. __Alkaloids & Flavonoids. __Tannin, Saponnin and Taxol. __Terpenoids, Steroids and Phenolic Compounds. __Essential oil and their constituents. __Characterization Techniques used for the analysis of phytochemical constituents. PART C: Medicinal Bioactivity. __Anti-cancerous and Anti HIV activity. __Anti-microbial, Anti-inflammatory and wound healing activity. __Anti-oxidant activity. __Anti-diabetic activity. __Anti-Corona virus and anti-viral activity. PART D: Nanotechnology. __Nano-materials synthesis from medicinal plant extract. __Characterization and activity of medicinal plant based nanoparticles. PART E: Pharmacology/Drug discovery. __Plant phytochemicals in drug discovery. __Extraction and production of drugs. __System pharmacology and drug discovery. Preface Contents About the editors List of contributors Chapter 1 Habitat and distribution of medicinal plants Chapter 2 Threats and conservation of the medicinal plants Chapter 3 Culture, tradition, and indigenous practices on medicinal plants Chapter 4 Plants alkaloids and flavonoids: biosynthesis, classification, and medicinal uses Chapter 5 Terpenoids, steroids, and phenolic compounds of medicinal plants Chapter 6 Characterization techniques used for the analysis of phytochemical constituents Chapter 7 Medicinal bioactivity: anti-cancerous and anti-HIV activity of medicinal plants Chapter 8 Anti-cancerous and anti-HIV activity of medicinal plants Chapter 9 Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and wound-healing activities of medicinal plants Chapter 10 Antioxidant activity of medicinal plants Chapter 11 Antidiabetic activity of selected Indian medicinal plants Chapter 12 Anti-coronavirus and antiviral activity of medicinal plants Chapter 13 Nanomaterials synthesis from medicinal plant extract Chapter 14 Bioactivity of nanoparticles synthesized from medicinal plants Chapter 15 Phytochemicals in drug discovery Chapter 16 Extraction and production of drugs from plant Index