Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products, Vols. I to VIII

Contents: Vol. I. Potential and Challenges: About the series. Foreword to the series. Preface. 1. Biological activity of peptides derived from marine organisms/Se-Kwon Kim and Y. Dominic Ravichandran. 2. Bioactive natural products as anti-staphylococcal infections/Supayang Piyawan Voravuthikunchai, Beatrice Olawumi Ifesan, Sasitorn Chusri and Jongkon Saising. 3. Pharmacological activities, phytochemical investigations and in vitro studies of Gymnema sylvestre R.Br. -- A historical review/A. Bakrudeen Ali Ahmed, N. Komalavalli, M. Muthukumar, J.H.F. Benjamin, A.S. Rao. Se-Kwon and M.V. Rao. 4. Andirobas of the state of acre (Brazil) : chemical and biological aspects associated with the use and management/Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Jose Luiz P. Ferreira, Silvia L. Basso and Jefferson Rocha De A. Silva. 5. Natural bioresource of the North Himalayan Region as a source of promising radiation countermeasure agents: lessons from Podophyllum Hexandrum/Rajesh Arora, A.S. Dhaker, J. Sharma, M. Adhikari, D. Gupta, R. Chawla, R. Kumar, A. Sharma, R.K. Sharma, S. Sultana, G.N. Qazi, P.S. Ahuja and R.P. Tripathi. 6. Red ginseng as a potential anti-obesity agent/Ji Hyun Kim and Insop Shim. 7. Carotenoids in commercially important crustaceans from Indian waters/Sachindra, N.M., Bhaskar N. and Mahendrakar N.S. 8. Therapeutic uses of venoms/Rumi Ghosh and Vaidehi Thanawala. 9. Potentials of bryophytes for biotechnological use/Marko Sabovljevic and Aneta Sabovljevic. 10. Review: molecular biology approach to viper venoms/Ponlapat Rojnuckarin, Chuanchom Muanpasitporn, Pon Singhamatr and Jaradpong Arpijuntarangkoon. 11. Bee-pollen therapeutical value/Maria Graca R. Campos, Christian Frigerio and Francisco Ferreira. 12. Herbal products in healthcare: challenges and potential/Mohammed Mosihuzzaman and Leiv K. Sydnes. 13. Anticancer properties of plant-derived food, phytochemicals and plant - expressed recombinant pharmaceuticals/Kumar V.L. and Kumar V. 14. Global medicinal plants with anti-HIV activities/Thet Thet Htar and Gabriel A. Akowuah. 15. New fungal metabolites, as antifungal, herbicides and insecticides for biocontrol of agrarian plants pests/A. Evidente. 16. On the potential of some natural colouring agents: an overview/Annie Shirwaikar, Arun Shirwaikar, Richard Lobo and Kirti S. Prabhu. Appendix. Index.

Vol. II. Efficacy, Safety and Clinical Evaluation I: About the series. Foreword to the series. Preface. 1. Perspectives in efficacy, safety and clinical evaluation of bioactive natural products/Yogendra Nayak, Veeresh P. Veerapur, Anantha Naik Nagappa and M.K. Unnikrishnan. 2. The modern application of traditional Chinese medicine: Indigo naturalis as an alternative therapy in psoriasis vulgaris/Yin-Ku Lin and Jong-Hwei Su Pang. 3. Development of anti-angiogenesis therapies for treating cancer from Chinese medicinal herbs/Stephen M. Sagar, Raimond K. Wong and Donald R. Yance Jr. 4. An anthology of the studies on the anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive and febrifuge effects of medicinal plants in Turkey/Esra Kupeli Akkol and Erdem Yesilada. 5. Comparative study of the antigenotoxic effects of some selected natural plant products against methylmethane sulphonate induced genotoxic damage in cultured mammalian cells/Yasir Hasan Siddique and Mohammad Afzal. 6. Inflammation and mediators/S. Singh, A. Koul, R. Sharma, G.D. Singh, P. Koul, A. Khajuria and V.K. Gupta. 7. Recommendations for reporting randomized controlled trials of herbal interventions: CONSORT for herbal medicine trials/Joel J. Gagnier N.D., Heather Boon, Paula Rochon, David Moher, Joanne Barnes and Claire Bombardier. 8. Anxiolytic activity screening studies on extracts of a few medicinal plants/Richa Shri, Manjeet Singh and Anupam Sharma. 9. Study of Eugenia jambolana and Momordica charantia in respect to safety and antidiabetic effect in vivo and in vitro/Yele, Santosh and Veeranjaneyulu. 10. Larvicidal and antimicrobial activities of seeds of Annona cornifolia A. St. - Hil. (Annonaceae)/Luciana Alves R.S. Lima, Maria Amelia D. Boaventura, Jacqueline A. Takahashi and Lucia P.S. Pimenta. 11. Antidepressant activity of the extracts of three hypericum species native to China/Depo Yang, Jie Bai, Zhen Li, George Q Li and Dongmei Wang. 12. Cytolytic and toxic effects of Ostreolysin, a protein from the Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus Ostreatus)/Krishna Sepcic and Robert France. 13. Antioxidant, antisecretory and gastroprotective activities from Leiothrix flavescens/Thiago De Mello Moraes, Marcelo Aparecido Silva, Clenilson Martins Rodrigues, Lourdes Campaner Dos Santos, Miriam Sannomiya, Lucia Regina Machado Da Rocha, Alba Regina Monteiro Souza Brito, Tais M. Bauab, Wagner Vilegas and Clelia Akiko Hiruma-Lima. 14. Evaluation of the immunity potency and security of inactivated oil-adjuvant vaccine against chlamydiosis in dairy cattle/Qiu C., Zhou J., Cao X and Lin G. 15. Annona crassiflora wood constituents: antimalarial efficacy, larvicidal and antimicrobial activity/Mary Ane Goncalves, Vanessa Carla Furtado Mosqueira and Lucia Pinheiro Santos Pimento. 16. Pharmacokinetics of active constituents of Rhodiola rosea SHR- 5 extract/A. Panossian, A. Hovhannisyan, H. Abrahamyan, E. Gabreilyan and G. Wikman. 17. Metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies of coumarins/Behera D. and Addepalli V. 18. Naringin and its aglycone, research and managements/Ricky W.K. Wong and Fanny Y.F. Young. 19. Biotransformation of drugs/M.G. Tyagi, S. Prabhakaran and K.R. Dhanasekhar. 20. Pharmacokinetics and drug interactions of glycyrrhizin/Glycyrrhiza/A.K. Aggarwal and D.K. Majumdar. 21. Determination of total antioxidant status and rosmarinic acid from Orthosiphon stamineus in rat plasma/Gabriel Akyirem Akowuah and Ismail Zhari. 22. Green tea: molecular targets in glucose uptake, inflammation, and insulin signaling pathways/Heping Cao, Anne M. Roussel and Richard A. Anderson. 23. Euphorbious plants as molluscicides and piscicides: a review/Ram P. Yadav and Ajay Singh. Appendix. Index.

Vol. III. Efficacy, Safety and Clinical Evaluation II: About the series. Foreword to the series. Preface. 1. Allylsulfides as bioactive compounds with chemotherapeutic and/or chemopreventive effects/C. Scherer, C. Jacob, M. Dicato and M. Diederich. 2. Targeting tumor angiogenesis for preclinical validation of antiangiogenic compounds from medicinal plants/Bharathi P. Salimath, Thippeswamy G., Sheela M.L., John T. Lucas Jr. and Steven A. Rosenzweig. 3. Effects of hydroalcoholic extracts of four Chinese Hypericum species on learning and memory in mice/Dongmei Wang, Jie Bai, George Q Li and Depo Yang. 4. Chemistry and pharmacology of Shorea robusta/K. Pundarikakshudu, Md. Yaseen Khan and Hemant Sagrawat. 5. Safety, efficacy and preclinical evaluation of plant products/Vadde Ramakrishna and Oruganti H. Setty. 6. In vitro and in vivo combined anti-influenza virus effects of a plant polyphenol-rich extract and synthetic antiviral drugs/Julia Serkedjieva. 7. Antihypertensive and hypolipidemic effects of tuber of Apios Americana Medikus in SHR/Kunihisa Iwai, Shusuke Kuramoto and Hajime Matsue. 8. Anti-ulcer effects of aqueous extract of Persea Americana mill (Avocado) leaves in rats/Bamidele V. Owoyele, Ismaila K. Adebayo and Ayodele O. Soladoye. 9. Anti-asthmatic medicinal plants/Ezike A.C. and Akah P.A. 10. Hepatoprotective effects of Pimpinella anisum seed extract in rats/Nureddin Cengiz, Hanefi Ozbek and Aydin Him. 11. Safety and efficacy study of polyherbal formulations "Mersina", "Limit" and "Emuil" in experimental animals/Sateesh B. and Veeranjaneyulu A. 12. A review of biological effects of Berberine and Croatian barberry (Berberis croatica Horvat) as a new source of Berberine/Ivan Kosalec, Marijana Zovko, Dario Kremer, Nada Orsolic and Ksenija Karlovic. 13. An ethnopharmacological review on Calotropis species/I.L. Kothari, M.H. Parabia, J.H. Patel, Farzin M. Parabia, Smita S. Pathak, Falguni Sheth, Hiren V. Dhoshi and M.A. Patel. 14. Antisickling activity and thermodegradation of an anthocyanin fraction from Ocimum Basilicum L. (Lamiaceae)/P.T. Mpiana, V. Mudogo, D.S.T. Tshibangu, K.N. Ngbolua, P.K. Mangwala, E.K. Atibu, M.K. Kakule, L.K. Makelele and M.T. Bokota. 15. Pilot clinical trial of KJJ® in children with uncomplicated respiratory tract infections/S. Babayan, G. Aslanayan, E. Amroyan, E. Gabrielyan and A. Panossian. 16. Antidiabetic effect of a herbal powder consisting of Curcuma longa, Emblica officinalis, Gymnema Sylvestre and Tinospora Cordifolia/Andallu B., Subha V., Vinay Kumar A.V. and Rama Kumar K.S. 17. Effect of aegle marmelos, Gymnema sylvester and Momordica charantia on blood glucose and lipid profile in alloxan induced diabetic rabbits/G.B. Jadhav and S.A. Katti. 18. Chemical constituents from anti-inflammatory fraction of taraxacum mongolicum and their inhibition of AChE/Kexin Huang, Shu Yun Shi, Feng Li, Liyan Song, Ming Yin, Zejian Wang, Rongmin Yu, Yihang Wu, Qiaofeng Tao, Yu Zhao, Yan Xu, Xiumei Wu, Xiaokun Li, Joachim Stockigt and Jia Qu. 19. Inhibition of hyaluronidase by essential oils and other natural fragrant extracts/Emilie Ulrich and Benoit Auffray. 20. Chemical, biological and pharmacological studies of the essential oil of croton nepetaefolius baill/Jose Henrique Leal-Cardoso, Vania Marilande Ceccatto, Selene Maia De Morais, Andrelina Noronha Coelho-De-Souza, Oriel Herrera Bonilia, Sandra Maria Dias Morais, Gloria Isolina Pinto Duarte, Saad Lahlou and Pedro Jorge Caldas Magalhaes. 21. Pharmacokinetic studies on hepatic uptake mechanism of Tetrodotoxin in the puffer fish Takifugu rubripes/Takuya Matsumoto and Yuji Nagashima. 22. Herbal drugs -- applications in the post genomic era/Isha Dhande and Rumi Ghosh. 23. Antifungal activity of marine bacterial associates of deep-sea origin against plant pathogens/A. Vimala, C.C. Rath and A. Sree. Appendix. Index.

Vol. IV. Antioxidants and Nutraceuticals: Preface. Foreword to the series. 1. The challenges of antioxidant therapy with natural products/A.J. Nunez Selles and G. Garrido Garrido. 2. Antioxidant activity of the phytochemicals/Bratati De and Archana Banerjee. 3. Determination of antioxidant capacities of Non alcoholic beverages prepared from three wild fruits of Zimbabwe/Nhukarume L., Chikwambi Z and Muchuweti M. 4. Spontaneous short-term fermentation of garlic potentiates its anti-oxidative activities/Yoshimi Niwano. Emiko Sato and Masahiro Kohno. 5. Natural antioxidant phytochemicals in fruits, berries and vegetables and their degradation status during processing/Singh Dheeraj, Bhushan Sashi, Lobsang Wangchu, Kavita A. and Moond S.K. 6. The grape fruit flavonone, Naringin reduces Ferric Ion induced Oxidative stress in vitro/Ganesh Chandra Jagetia. 7. Scavenging capacity of Allium species/Stajner D., Popovic B.M. and Stajner M. 8. Effect of Aquilegia vulgaris on liver antioxidant status in rats treated with diethylmaleate/Jadwiga Jodynis-Liebert, Malgorzata Kujawska, Irena Matlawska, Wieslawa Bylka and Marek Murias. 9. Antioxidant activity, medicinal plants and nervous disorders: a review/Sharma Komal, Sharma Durgesh, Jain Ayushi, Joshi Chetan and Bhatnagar Maheep. 10. Free radical scavenging and DNA damage preventing properties of Amaranthus tricolor L./Ananya Mukhopadhyay and Bratati De. 11. Free radical scavenging activity of methanolic Bark extract of limonia acidissima/Thet Thet Htar and G.A. Akowuah. 12. Sorghum arundinaceum, a wild cereal grain with potential: comparison of its antioxidant potential with that of domestic cereals in the same family/Chitindingu K., Benhura M.A.N. and Muchuweti M. 13. Antioxidant and micronutrient potential of some marketed Mango varieties and Mango products/Agte V. Vaishali and Tarwadi V. Kirtan. 14. Vimang: experiences from the antioxidant therapy in Cuban primary health care/Gilberto L. Pardo Andreu, Alberto J. Nunez Selles, Mariela Guevara Garcia and Alina Alvarez Leon. 15. Novel nutraceutical properties of stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni/Sharmila Chattopadhyay. 16. Oligosaccharides and Total polyphenols contents in Italian common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Landraces: a quality evaluation/Fibiani M. and Lo Scalzo R. 17. Biological activities and main compounds of fruits/Patricia Dalla Santa Spada, Gustavo Scola, Joao A.P. Henriques and Mirian Salvador. 18. Grape Juice: its compounds and health benefits/Dani Caroline, Oliboni Livia S., Henriques Joao A.P. and Salvador Mirian. 19. Nutraceutical potential of commonly consumed fruits and vegetables/Vaishali V. Agte and Kirtan V. Tarwadi. 20. Bioactive compounds and functional foods of pseudocereals/Tamer H. Gamel. Appendix. Index.

Vol. V. Immune-Modulation and Vaccine Adjuvants: Preface. 1. Herbal therapies as immune modulators for anti-cancer therapeutics/Stephen M. Sagar, Daniel M-Y. Sze and Raimond K. Wong. 2. Neem leaf glycoprotein as a new vaccine adjuvant for cancer immunotherapy/Baral Rathindranath, Sarkar Koustav, Mandal-Ghosh Ishita and Bose Anamika. 3. Honey bee products: immunomodulation and antitumor activity/Nada Orsolic, Damir Sirovina, Ivan Kosalec and Ivan Basic. 4. Mitogenic and anticoagulant activity of a fucoidan isolated from brown and red seaweed/Lydice C.M. Carvalho, Hugo A.O. Rocha, Fernanda W. Oliveira, Suely F. Chavante, Selma M.B. Jeronimo and Edda L. Leite. 5. Development of plant based adjuvants for vaccine antigens/Gupta Amit, Khajuria A., Singh J., Tabasum Sidiqi, Singh S., Gupta V.K., Suri K.A., Satti N.K., Srinivas V.K., Ella Krishna and Qazi G.N. 6. Immunomodulation and vaccine adjuvants/Teena Mohan,. Bhat A. Ajaz and Rao D.N. 7. Recent advances in the use of medicinal plants as immunostimulants/Nayak Smita and Mengi Sushma. 8. Balance of Pro-anti-inflammatory cytokines release in spleen cells from mice treated with Crotalus Durissus terrificus Venom/Garduno-Ramirez M.L., Hernandez Cruz A., Zucatelli Mendonca R. and Petricevich V.L. 9. Bioactive agents from herbal sources with immunopharmacological properties abating inflammation and malignancy/Chakravarty Ashim K., Mazumder Tamal and Yasmin Hadida. 10. Differential effects of subchronic and chronic oral treatments with Orbignya Phalerata Mart. Mesocarp on the inflammatory response/Flavia R.F. Nascimento, Elizabeth S.B. Barroqueiro, Ana Paula S. Azevedo, Marcia C.G. Maciel, Wanderson S. Pereira, Susanne C. Ferreira, Jardel C. Farias, Mayara T. Pinheiro, Lucilene A. Silva and Rosane N.M. Guerra. 11. A mistletoe lectin-containing preparation for oral use provokes an immune response and induces an increase in the population of activated natural killer cells/Winge I., Dale T.M., Tilrem J.P.P. and Pryme I.F. 12. Flavonoids from complementary and alternative medicine: mechanism of immunomodulation of macrophages/Pandima Devi K., Kiruthiga P.V. and Karutha Pandian S. 13. Herbal immunomodulators/Chauhan Singh Nagendra, Sharma Vikas and Dixit V.K. 14. Immunomodulatory activity of botanicals/Kaul A., Khajuria A., Singh S., Singh G.D., Chandan B.K. and Gupta V.K. 15. The potentials of immunomodulatory substances of natural origin in contemporary medical practice/Chukwuemeka Sylvester Nworu and Peter Achunike Akah. 16. Study of Immunomodulatory activity of Spharanthus indicus/Vikani K.V., Lahiri S.K. Santani D.D., Kapadia N.S. and Shah M.B. Appendix. Index.

Vol. VI. Extraction, Isolation and Characterization: Preface. 1. Recent insights on the chemistry and pharmacology of withasteroids/Maria Leopoldina Veras, Otilia Deusdenia Loiola Pessoa, Edilberto Rocha Silveira, Ana Isabel Vitorino Maia, Raquel Carvalho Montenegro, Danilo Damasceno Rocha, Claudia Pessoa, Manoel Odorico De Moraes and Leticia Veras Costa - Lotufo. 2. Phenolic compounds from Plumbago zeylanica and their cytotoxicity/Nguyen A.-T., Malonne H., Fontaine J., Blanco L., Vanhaelen M., Figys J., Zizi M. and Duez P. 3. Extraction, characterization and biological properties of 4-O Methyl glucuronoxylan from hard wood - a review/Aline Barbat, Charlotte Moine, Pierre Krausz and Vincent Gloaguen. 4. Biologically active Naphthaquinones from nature/Vinothkumar S.P. and Gupta Jayanta Kumar. 5. Biological function of glycoproteins/Kwang Lim and Kye-Taek Lim. 6. Chemical constituents and pharmacology of the neotropical burseraceae/Junior Veiga F. Valdir and Rudiger L. Andre. 7. Are well-studied snake venoms well investigated? Strategy for isolation of new polypeptides from snake venom/Osipov A.V., Tsetlin V.I. and Utikin Yu.N. 8. Extraction, isolation and characterization of solanesol from Nicotiana tabacum L./Rao Nageswara R. and Narendra Kumar Talluri M.V. 9. Cinnamon: molecular evidence for the health benefits through its insulin-like and anti-inflammatory effects/Cao Heping, Urban F. Joseph Jr. and Anderson A. Richard. 10. Flax Cyanogenic Glycosides/Barthet Veronique J. and Bacala Ray. 11. Isolation and preliminary characterization of antimicrobial proteins and peptides from ctenophores and cnidaria/Grant Suzanne, Gisondi Amy, Hortano William, De Filippo John and Beck Gregory. 12. Plants of the Genus: commiphora-chemistry/Selvamani P., Gupta Jayanta Kumar and Sen Dhrubojyoti. 13. Secondary metabolites and biological activities of some gentianaceae species from Serbia and montenegro/Savikin K.. Jankovic T., Krstic Milosevic D., Menkovic N. and Milosavljevic S. 14. Chitin and Chitosan: extraction and characterization/Elsabee Maher Z and Alsagheer Fakhriea. 15. Chemical composition of the mango stem bark extract (Mangifera Indica L)/Nunez Selles A.J. and Rastrelli Luca. Appendix. Index.

Vol. VII. Structural Modifications and Drug Development: About the series. Foreword to the series. Preface. 1. Synthetic and clinical status of marine derived anticancer peptides/Diwan S. Rawat, Ram Singh, Nitin Kumar, Mukul Sharma and M.S.M. Rawat. 2. Microwave-assisted non-conventional esterification of polysaccharides/Srokova I. and Ebringerova A. 3. Structural modifications of Parthenin: a sesquiterpene lactone of biological potential/Bhahwal Ali Shah and Subhash Chandra Taneja. 4. Prospects for the development of polyphenolic acetate as the potential drug candidate: a review/Hanumantharao G. Raj, Ajit Kumar, Ranju Kumari, Seema Bansal, Prija Ponnan, Prabhjot Singh. 5. Mining bioactive conformations: a novel methodology for computing predictive 3D-QSAR models/Jayendra B. Bhonsle and Donald P. Huddler. 6. Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of some taxoids as multidrug resistance modulator in MDR cancer cells/Liming Bai, Toshiaki Hasegawa, Jiao Bai, Mutumi Kitabatake. 7. Antioxidant and neuroprotective effects of synthetic curcumin analogues and natural phenolics/Yu Zhao, Leixiang Yang, Kexin Huang, Lihong Hu, Xiumei Wu, Xiaoyu Wang, Xiakun Li, Xiaojiang Hao, Joachim Stockigt and Jia Qu. 8. Action of plant proteinase inhibitors using biological models/Maria Luiza V. Oliva and Misako Sampaio. 9. Plant hormone conjugates/Andrzej Bajguz and Alicja Piotrowska. 10. Biological prospective of Pinitol and its structurally modified products/Bhahwal Ali Shah and Subhash Chandra Taneja. 11. Drug sensitivity of curcumin analogues and bioconjugates/Archana Pandey, Vishnu Dwivedi and Krishna Misra. 12. Structural based drug design of estrogen receptor beta selective ligands/B. Balaji, C. Sabarinath and M. Ramanathan. Appendix. Index.

Vol. VIII. Quality Control and Standardization: About the series. Foreword to the series. Preface. 1. Chromatographic techniques applied to the natural products chemistry/Maria Aparecida  M. Maciel, Valdir F. Veiga Jr., Angelo Da Cunha Pinto, Fabiano E.S. Gomes and Tereza N.C. Dantas. 2. Quality control of natural medicines by immunological assay system/Waraporn Putalun, Osamu Moringa, Hiroyuki Tanaka and Yukihiro Shoyama. 3. Comparison of HPLC and HPTLC methods for the determination of Rosmarinic acid from Orthosiphon stamineus/Garbriel Akyirem Akowuah and Ismail Zhari. 4. Quality control and standardization of medicinal and aromatic plants/Anjan Bhattacharyya, Rajalxami Poi, Md. Wasim Aktar and N. Sanyal. 5. Development of a thin-layer chromatography-Densitometric method for the quantification of Podophyllotoxin in podophyllum hexandrum/Archana Peshin Raina, S.K. Pareek and K.S. Negi. 6. Standardization of polyherbal formulations using market compounds/B.D. Gupta, N.K. Satti, V.K. Gupta, Prabhu Dutt and K.A. Suri. 7. Characteristics variation of lavender oil produced by different hydrodistillation techniques/G.D. Kiran Babu and Bikram Singh. 8. Quality control methods for herbal medicines/George Q. Li, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski, Eshaifol Omar. 9. Evaluation of biological activity in quality control of herbal medicines/George Q. Li, Valentina Razmovski-Naumovski, Eshaifol Omar, Aik Wei Teoh, Min-Kyong Song. 10. Chemical analysis and quality control of essential oils/Lahlou M. 11. Development and validation of ultraviolet spectrophotometric assay method for the powdered leaves, extracts and formulations of Loranthus Micranthus/Uzochukwu I.C. and Osadebe P.O. 12. Exploring pharmacovigilance for traditional herbal medicines/Pulok K. Mukherjee and S. Ponnusankar. 13. HPLC as a tool for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of herbal drugs and formulations/R. Govindarajan, D.P. Singh and A.K.S. Rawat. 14. Consumer protection and regulatory requirements for herbal drugs/N. Sreevidya and S. Mehrotra.