Phytochemicals in Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Bioactivity and Drug Discovery

ISBN-13: 9783110791761 / Angielski

Charu Arora;Dakeshwar Kumar Verma;Jeenat Aslam

Opis

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.

O autorze

____Associate Professor Dr. Charu Arora, Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas University (A Central University),
Bilaspur, C.G., India. charuarora77@gmail.com

__Head, Department of Chemistry at Guru Ghasidas University and Division Chair, Division of Nanochemistry at Galgotias University, Greater Noida.
__2003: Ph. D. in Chemistry from GK University, Haridwar and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. __19 years of teaching and research experience.
__1995: postgraduation in Chemistry from GK University, Haridwar and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
__Areas of interest and research: Environmental Chemistry, Kinetics and Natural Product Chemistry.
Awards:
__2011: SARC Gold Medal Award conferred by Scientific and Applied Research Centre, CCS University, Meerut.
__2016: Gold Medal Award of Hi-Tech Horticulture Society for outstanding contribution in Chemistry.
__2017: SERS Fellow Award for contribution in field of Chemistry.

____Assistant Professor Dr. Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India 491441. dakeshwarverma@gmail.com

__Research: mainly focused on the preparation and designing of sustainable and eco-friendly corrosion inhibitors for metals and alloys those are useful for several industrial applications.
__2013: Dr. Verma received Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Junior Research Fellowship national award.

____Dr. Assistant Professor Jeenat Aslam, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taibah University,
Yanbu-30799, Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia. drjeenataslam@outlook.com

__Research is generally based on the materials and corrosion, nanotechnology, and surface chemistry.

____Assistant Professor Dr. Pramod Kumar Mahish, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India 491441. drpramodkumarmahish@gmail.com

__9 years of teaching and 12 years of research experience.
__Area of interest: Medicinal plants and bio-processing.