Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

This volume presents frontier reviews on recent developments on bioactive natural products in cutting-edge areas by eminent experts in their respective fields. Fourteen reviews treat diverse and different topics in natural products chemistry - basic ones, medicinally oriented ones, agro-oriented ones and ecologically oriented ones.
It is an important addition to this important series on Natural Products Chemistry, generally acknowledged to be the leading series on this topic.

Antitumor agent 248. Chemistry and antitumor activity of tylophorine-related alkaloids
LINYI WEI, ARNOLD BROSSI, SUSAN L. MORRIS-NATSCHKE, KENNETH F. BASTOW AND KUO-HSIUNG LEE

Antitumor and antimetastatic actions of various natural products
YOSHIYUKI KIMURA

Natural stilbenes and analogues as ntineoplastic agents
FULVIA ORSINI AND GUIDO SELLO

Discoveries of the diels-alderases
AKITAMI ICHIHARA

Lipids of membranes: Chemistry, biological role and applications as drug carriers
SOPHIA HATZIANTONIOY AND COSTAS DEMETZOS

Metabolism of plant hormones cytokinins and their function in signaling, cell
differentiation and plant development
PETR GALUSZKA, LUKÁŠ SPÍCHAL, DAVID KOPECNÝ,
PETR TARKOWSKI, JITKA FRÉBORTOVA, MAREK ŠEBELA
AND IVO FRÉBORT

(+)-Biotin: A challenge for industrially viable total synthesis of natural products
MASAHIKO SEKI

Biotechnology for the production of plant natural products
RAFAEL ZARATE, NABIL EL JABER-VAZDEKIS,
ELENA CEQUIER-SÁNCHEZ, FÁTIMA GUTÍERREZ-NICOLÁS AND ÁNGEL G. RAVELO

Roles of insect and mammal pheromones: Vomeronasal receptors
DANIEL GARCÍA VELÁZQUEZ, JOSÉ J. MARRERO TELLADO AND ANGEL G. RAVELO

Stilbenoids: Chemistry and bioactivities
KAI XIAO, HONG-JUN ZHANG, LI-JIANG XUAN, JUAN ZHANG,YA-MING XU AND DONG-LU BAI

Tissue culture of medicinal plants: Micropropagation, transformation and
production of useful secondary metabolites
KAYO YOSHIMATSU

Isoquinuclidines: A review of chemical and pharmacological properties
M.O. FARUK KHAN, MARK S. LEVI, C. RANDALL CLARK,
SETH Y. ABLORDEPPEY, SAY-JONG LAW, NORMAN H. WILSON AND RONALD F. BORNE

Hyaluronic acid: Its function and degradation in in vivo systems
GRIGORIJ KOGAN, LADISLAV ŠOLTES, ROBERT STERN,
JÜRGEN SCHILLER AND RANIERO MENDICHI

High altitude plants, chemistry of acclimation and adaptation
MIGUEL E. ALONSO-AMELOT