Ethnomedicine and drug discovery. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maurice M. Iwu, Jacqueline C. Wootton.
• Editors: Iwu, Maurice M; Wootton, Jacqueline C
• Contents: Introduction (M. Iwu); 1. Drugs from nature: past achievements, future prospects (G. Cragg, D.J. Newman); 2. Natural products for high throughput screening (A.L. Harvey); 3. Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases (T.J.S. Carlson); 4. Development of Herbmed®, an interactive, evidence-based herbal database (J. Wootton); 5. Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist (S. Mbua Ngale Efange); 6. Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare: a framework for South-Eastern Nigeria (Chioma Obijiofor); 7. Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge; problems, concepts and lessons for the future (R. Lettington); 8. Bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation (A. Onugu); 9. Balancing conservation with utilization: restoring populations of commercially valuable medicinal herbs in forests and agroforests (R.A. Cech); 10. Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee: historical and current applications (J. Joé); 11. Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action (E. Elisabetsky); 12. Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria: some results (J.I. Okogun); 13. Plants, products and people: Southern African perspectives (N. Gericke); 14. Development of antimalarial agents and drugs from parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine: the Walter Reed experience (B.G. Schuster); 15. Health foods in anti-aging therapy: reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases (L. Meserole); 16. Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles: definitions under article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (K. Moran); 17. Garcinia kola a new look at an old adaptogenic agent (M.M. Iwu, A. Duncan Diop, L. Meserole, C.O. Okunji); 18. Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine (M.A. Gollin); 19. The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects (M. Guerin-McManus, K.C. Nnadozie, S.A. Laird); 20. The regulation of botanicals as drugs and dietary supplements in Europe (J. Grunewald); 21. Regulation of herbal medicines in Nigeria: the role of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) (G.E. Osuide); 22. Considerations in the development of public standards for botanicals and their dosage forms (V. Srini Srinivasan); 23. The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize (M.J. Balick, R. Arvigo, G. Shropshire, J. Walker, D. Campbell, L. Romero); 24. Ethnobotanical research into the 21st Century (S. Tarka Nelson-Harrison, S.R. King, C. Limbach, C. Jackson, A. Galiwango, Sirimani Kisingi Kato, B.R. Kanyerezi); 25. Ethnobotanical approach to pharmaceutical drug discovery: strengths and limitations (M.M. Iwu);
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 615.321; Pharmacognosy; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Materia medica, Vegetable
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080531250; 0080531253
• Related ISBNs: 044450852X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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