Chemistry, Biological And Pharmacological Properties Of Medicinal Plants From The Americas

About this book

Contains a compilation of plenary lectures presented at the IOCD/CYTED Symposium held in Panama City, Panama, in 1997, and covers different aspects of research into plants from North, South and Central America.

Contents

Lessons from natural medicines; application of LC/MS and LC/NMR in the search for new bioactive compounds from plants of the Americas; the quest for new biologically active natural products; pharmacochemistry of new compounds from South American plant bioassay methods useful for activity-guided isolation of natural product cancer chemopreventive agents; biodiversity conservation and drug development in Suriname; antimicrobial activities of phytochemicals from British Columbian medicinal plants; bioactive compounds from Panamanian plants; bioactive natural products of medicinal and agrochemical interest from selected Mexican medicinal plants; the Brazilian folk medicine programme to validate medicinal plants – a topic in new antihypersensitive drug research; recent developments in the chemistry and pharmacology of boldo and boldine; metabolic engineering – a strategy to improve plant secondary metabolite production.