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Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

Volume 9

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  • © 1975

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Editors:
  1. V. C. Runeckles

    1. Department of Plant Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Part of the book series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry (RAPT, volume 9)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Present Knowledge of Hallucinogenically used Plants: A Tabular Study

    • Richard Evans Schultes
    Pages 1-28

  3. Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Metabolism of the Cannabinoids

    • Monroe E. Wall
    Pages 29-61

  4. On the Carcinogenicity of Marijuana Smoke

    • D. Hoffmann, K. D. Brunnemann, G. B. Gori, E. L. Wynder
    Pages 63-81

  5. Chemistry and Folk Medicine

    • James A. Duke
    Pages 83-117

  6. Contact Allergy from Plants

    • John C. Mitchell
    Pages 119-138

  7. Teratogenic Constituents of Potatoes

    • Joseph Kuć
    Pages 139-150

  8. Plant Neurotoxins (Lathyrogens and Cyanogens)

    • Charlotte Ressler
    Pages 151-166

  9. Advances in the Chemistry of Tumor-Inhibitory Natural Products

    • S. Morris Kupchan
    Pages 167-188

  10. Laboratory Models for the Biogenesis of Indole Alkaloids

    • A. Ian Scott
    Pages 189-241

  11. Antimicrobial Agents from Higher Plants

    • L. A. Mitscher
    Pages 243-282

  12. Structure of the Insect Antifeedant Azadirachtin

    • Koji Nakanishi
    Pages 283-298

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 299-309
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About this book

For centuries it has been recognized that plants relate to human health and well-being in many ways beyond their fundamental role as primary sources of food and energy. Many of the unique plant constituents have pronounced effects on animal systems or in the human body; some of them are potentially harmful and represent a risk in the use of a parttcular plant or in the exposure to it, others are useful as medicinal agents in the treatment of diseases. Many of the latter are extracted from plant materials on a large scale for marketing as drugs and even more of them have served as structural prototypes which inspired chemists to synthesize analog drugs with even more desirable properties. Clearly, today's drug therapy had its origins in the explora­ tion and exploitation of pharmacologically active plant con­ stituents. It is therefore appropriate that a symposium of the Phytochemical Society of tlorth America \'1as devoted to this subject. The present volume consists of eleven rapers dealing with various aspects of the topic "Phytochemistry as Related to Disease and Medicine", which were presented at the Four­ teenth Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of tlorth America held tn August 1974 at Hestern Carol ina University in Cullowhee, N.C. Plant hallucinogens are the subject of the first three chapters. The first, by Schultes, reviews the occurrence of hallucinogenic agents in plants, in tabular form. Emphasis is on plants from Central and South America.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Plant Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    V. C. Runeckles

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 9

  • Editors: V. C. Runeckles

  • Series Title: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0823-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-0825-6Published: 16 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-0823-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0079-9920

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-9094

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 310

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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