Overview
- Discusses techniques which are applicable in phytopharmacology
- Presents protocols which are structured step by step ensuring
- easy reproducibility
- Is easy to follow and understand
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Drug Research (PDR, volume 71)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This volume provides information on how to select and screen plants for their medicinal properties. It describes phytopharmacological techniques for extracting and qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing a plant’s phytochemicals. After a detailed in vitro investigation including nutritional and anti-nutritional analyses, medicinal properties were tested with various in vivo models for anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-pyretic, anticancer and anti-diabetic properties, as well as wound healing, neurodegenerative diseases, etc. Compound identification and purification techniques include, among others, TLC and column chromatography, as well as molecular docking with specific proteins.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Parimelazhagan Thangaraj is a Professor in the Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore – 641 046, India. His field of specialization is Bioprospecting of Medicinal Plants. He is currently engaged in compilation and documentation on available knowledge on valuable plant resources to prove their utility scientifically through detailed phytochemical, biological and pharmacological investigations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pharmacological Assays of Plant-Based Natural Products
Authors: Thangaraj Parimelazhagan
Series Title: Progress in Drug Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26811-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26810-1Published: 08 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80020-2Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26811-8Published: 29 December 2015
Series ISSN: 0071-786X
Series E-ISSN: 2297-4555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 188
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry