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Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach

  • 1st Edition, Volume 55 - September 21, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Satyajit Dey Sarker, Lutfun Nahar
  • Language: English

Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach, Volume 55 in the Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry series, highlights the applications of natural products as medicines… Read more

Description

Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach, Volume 55 in the Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry series, highlights the applications of natural products as medicines or prospective medicinal leads for the treatment of various human ailments. Each chapter covers a particular disease area or medical condition, with chapters in this new release covering Medicinal Natural Products – An Introduction, Anticancer Natural Products, Antimicrobial Natural Products, Antimalarial and Antiparasitic Natural Products, Anti-inflammatory Natural Products, Neuroprotective Natural Products, Hepatoprotective Natural Products, Nephroprotective Natural Products, Cancer Chemopreventive Natural Products, Antipsoriatic Natural Products, Medicinal Natural Products in Osteoporosis, Antidiabetic Natural Products, Anti-obesity Natural Products, and much more.

Key features

  • Presents a disease-focused perspective
  • Includes the latest on the medicinal chemistry of natural products
  • Covers natural products in drug delivery

Readership

Medicinal chemists, natural products chemists, drug discovery researchers, pharmacists, phytochemists and phytotherapists of all levels

Table of contents

1. Medicinal natural products - An introductionLutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker2. Anticancer natural productsSatyajit D Sarker, Lutfun Nahar, Anca Miron and Mingquan Guo3. Antimicrobial natural productsMukhlesur Rahman and Satyajit D Sarker4. Antiparasitic natural productsFyaz M D Ismail, Lutfun Nahar, Kalin Y Zhang and Satyajit D Sarker5. Anti-inflammatory natural productsOlumayokun A Olajide and Satyajit D Sarker6. Neuroprotective natural productsSubrata Das, Lutfun Nahar, Rajat Nath, Deepa Nath, Satyajit D Sarker and Anupam Das Talukdar7. Hepatoprotective natural productsSitesh C Bachar, Ritesh Bachar, Rownak Jahan and Mohammed Rahmatullah8. Nephroprotective natural productsEmil Jivishov, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker9. Cancer chemopreventive natural productsKenneth J Ritchie and Satyajit D Sarker10. Antipsoriatic natural productsAnca Miron, Lutfun Nahar, Elvira Gille and Satyajit D Sarker11. Medicinal natural products in osteoporosisDidem Sohretoglu and Gulin Renda12. Antidiabetic natural productsPulok K Mukherjee, Amit Kar, Subhadip Banerjee and C.K. Katiyar13. Anti-obesity natural productsAditya Arya, Lutfun Nahar, Hidayat Ullah Khan and Satyajit D Sarker14. Analgesic and antipyretic natural productsJamil A Shilpi and Shaikh Jamal Uddin15. Fertility regulating natural productsSushmita Nath, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker16. Antipsychotic natural productsKrystyna Skalicka-Woźniak and Jürg Gertsch

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 55
  • Published: September 21, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Satyajit Dey Sarker

Prof Satyajit Sarker, the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis, and the former President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (2018-20), is the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. He has recently been awarded with an Honorary Professorship at the University of East Anglia (2020-24). He obtained BPharm (Hons) and MPharm degrees from Dhaka University, and completed his PhD in Phytochemistry from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. His research focuses on anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimicrobial, chemopreventive and wound-healing properties of phytochemicals. Prof Sarker is in the Editorial Board of >35 international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

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Lutfun Nahar

Dr Lutfun Nahar, Chemistry honors graduate from Exeter University, obtained her PhD in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry from Aberdeen University. She is the Managing Editor of Phytochemical Analysis, a reviewer of 30 international journals, and in the Editorial Board of 15 international journals. She has published 360 scientific papers, reviews, books and book chapters in the area of Synthetic Organic Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry. Her research interest includes several aspects of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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