Overview
- Presents chapters written by respected international experts from different research fields
- Covers all aspects of research on drugs from natural products
- Explains strategic methods to obtain medicinal agents
- Provides illustrative and current practice examples
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Respected experts explore issues involved in the production chain and when looking for new medicinal agents, including aspects such as therapeutic potential, functional foods, ethnopharmacology, metabolomics, virtual screening and regulatory scenarios.
Further, the book describes strategic methods of isolation and characterization of active principles, biological assays, biotechnology of plants, synthesis, clinical trials and the use of tools to identity active principles.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Valdir Cechinel Filho is a Professor/researcher at the Postgraduate Program (M/D) in Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI) in Santa Catarina, Brazil. He has experienced in the field of Organic Chemistry, focusing on the following topics: bioactive natural products, synthesis of molecules of biological interest, and investigation of the relationship between chemical structure and biological activity. Editor of six books, over twenty contributed chapters and over 300 papers and reviews, besides 12 patents. In 2017, he received the highest Commendation of Academic Merit of the Council of Rectors of Brazilian Universities (CRUB) for his contribution to the Brazilian Higher Education. In March 2018, he became President of the Foundation UNIVALI and Rector of UNIVALI, with a mandate to head the institution until 2022.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Products as Source of Molecules with Therapeutic Potential
Book Subtitle: Research & Development, Challenges and Perspectives
Editors: Valdir Cechinel Filho
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00545-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00544-3Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00545-0Published: 07 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 531
Number of Illustrations: 148 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Pharmacy