Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach

Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach, Volume 55 in the Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry series, highlights the applications of natural products as medicines or prospective medicinal leads for the treatment of various human ailments. Each chapter covers a particular disease area or medical condition, with chapters in this new release covering Medicinal Natural Products – An Introduction, Anticancer Natural Products, Antimicrobial Natural Products, Antimalarial and Antiparasitic Natural Products, Anti-inflammatory Natural Products, Neuroprotective Natural Products, Hepatoprotective Natural Products, Nephroprotective Natural Products, Cancer Chemopreventive Natural Products, Antipsoriatic Natural Products, Medicinal Natural Products in Osteoporosis, Antidiabetic Natural Products, Anti-obesity Natural Products, and much more.

Presents a disease-focused perspective Includes the latest on the medicinal chemistry of natural productsCovers natural products in drug delivery

1. Medicinal natural products - An introduction Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker 2. Anticancer natural products Satyajit D Sarker, Lutfun Nahar, Anca Miron and Mingquan Guo 3. Antimicrobial natural products Mukhlesur Rahman and Satyajit D Sarker 4. Antiparasitic natural products Fyaz M D Ismail, Lutfun Nahar, Kalin Y Zhang and Satyajit D Sarker 5. Anti-inflammatory natural products Olumayokun A Olajide and Satyajit D Sarker 6. Neuroprotective natural products Subrata Das, Lutfun Nahar, Rajat Nath, Deepa Nath, Satyajit D Sarker and Anupam Das Talukdar 7. Hepatoprotective natural products Sitesh C Bachar, Ritesh Bachar, Rownak Jahan and Mohammed Rahmatullah 8. Nephroprotective natural products Emil Jivishov, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker 9. Cancer chemopreventive natural products Kenneth J Ritchie and Satyajit D Sarker 10. Antipsoriatic natural products Anca Miron, Lutfun Nahar, Elvira Gille and Satyajit D Sarker 11. Medicinal natural products in osteoporosis Didem Sohretoglu and Gulin Renda 12. Antidiabetic natural products Pulok K Mukherjee, Amit Kar, Subhadip Banerjee and C.K. Katiyar 13. Anti-obesity natural products Aditya Arya, Lutfun Nahar, Hidayat Ullah Khan and Satyajit D Sarker 14. Analgesic and antipyretic natural products Jamil A Shilpi and Shaikh Jamal Uddin 15. Fertility regulating natural products Sushmita Nath, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker 16. Antipsychotic natural products Krystyna Skalicka-Woźniak and Jürg Gertsch