Phytochemicals in Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Bioactivity and Drug Discovery

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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.

Author(s): Charu Arora, Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Jeenat Aslam, Pramod Kumar Mahish
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 392
City: Berlin

Preface
Contents
About the editors
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Habitat and distribution of medicinal plants
Chapter 2 Threats and conservation of the medicinal plants
Chapter 3 Culture, tradition, and indigenous practices on medicinal plants
Chapter 4 Plants alkaloids and flavonoids: biosynthesis, classification, and medicinal uses
Chapter 5 Terpenoids, steroids, and phenolic compounds of medicinal plants
Chapter 6 Characterization techniques used for the analysis of phytochemical constituents
Chapter 7 Medicinal bioactivity: anti-cancerous and anti-HIV activity of medicinal plants
Chapter 8 Anti-cancerous and anti-HIV activity of medicinal plants
Chapter 9 Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and wound-healing activities of medicinal plants
Chapter 10 Antioxidant activity of medicinal plants
Chapter 11 Antidiabetic activity of selected Indian medicinal plants
Chapter 12 Anti-coronavirus and antiviral activity of medicinal plants
Chapter 13 Nanomaterials synthesis from medicinal plant extract
Chapter 14 Bioactivity of nanoparticles synthesized from medicinal plants
Chapter 15 Phytochemicals in drug discovery
Chapter 16 Extraction and production of drugs from plant
Index