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Saponins Used in Traditional and Modern Medicine

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 404)

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Commercial Utilization and Biosynthesis

    1. Glycosidases that Convert Natural Glycosides to Bioactive Compounds

      • Chung Ki Sung, Geun Hyung Kang, Sang Sun Yoon, Ik-Soo Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Ushio Sankawa et al.
      Pages 23-36
    2. Evidence for Separate UDP-Glucose : Spirostanol and UDP-Glucose : Solasodine Glucosyltransferases in Solanum melongena

      • Cezary PÄ…czkowski, MaÅ‚gorzata Kalinowska, Roland WoldaÅ„ski, ZdzisÅ‚aw A. Wojciechowski
      Pages 47-55
    3. Specificity of Elementary Composition of Plants in Synthesizing Saponins

      • M. J. Lovkova, S. M. Sokolova, G. N. Busuk, S. M. Ponomareva, O. V. Shelepova
      Pages 81-85
  3. Inhibition of Diseases of Mankind

    1. Modified Steroidal Glycosides with Potential Biological Activity

      • D. Iurea, C. V. Uglea, P. K. Kintia
      Pages 111-116
    2. Search for Molluscicidal and Antifungal Saponins from Tropical Plants

      • K. Hostettmann, A. Marston, M. Maillard, J.-L. Wolfender
      Pages 117-128
    3. New Saponins from Vietnamese Ginseng: Highlights on Biogenesis of Dammarane Triterpenoids

      • Nguyen Minh Duc, Ryoji Kasai, Kazuhiro Ohtani, Aiko Ito, Kazuo Yamasaki, Nguyen Thoi Nham et al.
      Pages 129-149
    4. Investigations of Molluscicidal Saponins from the Endod Plant Phytolacca dodecandra

      • Susanne T. Thiilborg, Claus Cornett, Else Lemmich
      Pages 151-164
    5. Structure/Function Studies on QS-21, A Unique Immunological Adjuvant from Quillaja saponaria

      • Charlotte Read Kensil, Sean Soltysik, Deborah A. Wheeler, Jia-Yan Wu
      Pages 165-172
    6. Molecular Structures of Saponins from Quillaja saponaria Molina

      • Dirk C. van Setten, Gerrit van de Werken
      Pages 185-193

About this book

''A wealth of information...these two volumes will be immensely valuable to anyone having to deal with this difficult group of compounds.'' ---Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, from a review of Saponins Used in Traditional and Modern Medicine and Saponins Used in Food and Agriculture

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

    George R. Waller

  • Institute of Pharmaceutical Science School of Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734, Japan

    Kazuo Yamasaki

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Saponins Used in Traditional and Modern Medicine

  • Editors: George R. Waller, Kazuo Yamasaki

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1367-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45393-9Published: 30 November 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1369-2Published: 30 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1367-8Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 606

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Sciences, Pharmacy

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