Biotechnology and production of anti-cancer compounds. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sonia Malik, editor.
• Editors: Malik, Sonia
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants: Ethno-Uses to Biotechnology Era; Historical Background; Ethnomedicines Uses of Herbs Between the Past and the Present; Ancient Times; In Egypt; In Greece; In China; In India; Middle Ages; Arabic Achievements in Herbal Medicine; Modern Era; Early Modern Era; Turning Points in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Importance of Medicinal Plants Has Increased Recently ... Why?; Why the Need Arises to Search for New Sources of Drugs?; Economic Returns for the Use of Medicinal Plants. How to Use the Herbal Medicines? Awareness in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Regulation and Legislation of Herbal Medicines; Medicinal Plants Were Used Traditionally to Heal from Cancer: Why? and How?; Why People Use Herbal Medicine with Cancer?; Medicinal Plants: Cancer Remedies Between the Past and the Present; Herbal Medicines: Traditional Treatment of Cancer Worldwide; New Vision of Medicinal Plants by Biotechnological Lenses; How Will the Medicinal Plants Be Drugs?; Background of Knowledge; Plant Selection; Preparation and Isolation of Bioactive Substances. The Need of Pharmacological Validation Benefits of Applying Biotechnology in Medicinal Plants; Why It Has Increased the Need to Apply Biotechnology to Medicinal Plants?; What Are the Advantages of Applied Biotechnological Techniques?; Trace Medicinal Plants from Field to Fork by Biotech Approaches ... Is It Possible?; Determine the Geographical Origin of Herbal Materials Is Vital Requirement ... Why?; Current Techniques Used for Determining the Origin of Medicinal Plants; PCR-DGGE: Innovative Biological Barcode of Medicinal Plants; Conclusion and Future Prospects; References. Chapter 2: How Plants Can Contribute to the Supply of Anticancer Compounds Introduction; Plant Secondary Metabolites as Anticancer Drugs; Natural Sources of Plant Metabolites with Anticancer Activity; Production of Small-Molecule Anticancer Compounds in Plants; Protein-Based Anticancer Compounds from Plants; Anticancer Activity of Lectins; Recombinant Protein Expression in Plants; Benefits and Challenges; Product Recovery and Purification; Process Design and Monitoring; Transgenic Plants and the Potential Large-Scale Production of Anticancer Compounds.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 615.7/98; Life sciences; Antineoplastic agents; MEDICAL -- Pharmacology; Antineoplastic agents; Antineoplastic Agents; Life Sciences; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Cell Culture; Natural Resources; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Cancer Research; Science -- Life Sciences -- Cytology; Nature -- Natural Resources; Medical -- Oncology; Cellular biology (cytology); Environmental management; Pharmacology; Oncology; Plant breeding; Cell culture; Natural resources; Toxicology; Oncology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Plant reproduction & propagation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319538808; 3319538802
• Related ISBNs: 9783319538792; 3319538799
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 27, 2017).
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