Modern Phytomedicine
Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs
How to turn ancient knowledge into a blockbuster drug. Throughout time, humans have searched, collected, and effectively used plants for healing. Currently, business in medicinal plants is flourishing, and efforts are being made to transform traditionally used herbs into modern drugs conforming to the high pharmacological standards present-day. To achieve this goal, a number of problems concerning the safety and efficacy of medicinal plant products need to be addressed and solved. This timely and original handbook paves the way to success, systematically addressing the issues facing pharmaceutical scientists wanting to turn a plant compound i…
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Weitere Autoren: Owais, Mohammad (Hrsg.) / Ahmad, Iqbal (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-527-60953-6
- EAN: 9783527609536
- Produktnummer: 13881527
- Verlag: Wiley-Vch
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 404 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'486 KB
Über den Autor
Iqbal Ahmad is a senior lecturer of agricultural microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of the Medicinal Plants Research Project of the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. A graduate of AMU, he worked as a research scientist at the Himalaya Drug Company before moving to the AMU's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He has so far screened more than 150 traditional Indian medicinal plants for their biological activities and potential prospection. Farrukh Aqil is Project Fellow working on the major research project on medicinal plants at the AMU Department of Agricultural Microbiology. His current work includes biological activities of Indian medicinal plants against MDR bacteria, antioxidants, and the antimutagenicity potential of bioactive plant extracts. Mohammad Owais currently holds a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He trained at CDRI, Lucknow and IMTECH, Chandigarh, and worked during his post doctoral training with Dr. R. C. Gallo's group at the NIH, USA. His present work is focusing on the screening of various herbal drugs for their potential to treat drug resistant infections, and developing and applying drug delivery systems to herbal drugs to assess the efficacy, stability and toxicity in animal models.
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