Medicinal Natural Products. A Biosynthetic Approach - Tapa blanda

"...comprehensive guide to pharacognosy..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002) "...this updated edition is an excellent book..." (Pharmaceutical Research, Vol. 19, No. 12, December 2002) "The price of the paper--back will allow not only to have it in the library but also on the personal bookshelf." (Journal of Plant PhysiologyNo.159, 2002)

"Medicinal Natural Products, Second Edition" is a comprehensive guide providing information on all classes of natural products in medicine. It builds upon fundamental chemical principles and demonstrates a unique integration of plant, microbial and animal natural products in one volume. The text guides the reader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites used in medicine with sources, production methods, use as drugs and modes of action all extensively covered. Taking a chemistry based approach it combines traditional pharmacognosy with medicinal chemistry. The structure is user-friendly and includes the acclaimed grey boxes on groups of products and detailed mechanistic explanations. This book features: adopts a novel biosynthetic theme rather than a traditional descriptive approach; includes extensive further reading at the end of the chapter; thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate comprehensive coverage of plant, microbial and animal products; and includes the latest developments in the field. This is a new material on genetic manipulation of biosynthetic pathways and non-mevalonate pathway to terpanoids, and provides a user-friendly format including extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanistic explanations.