"This book has succeeded in covering the basic chemistry essentials required by the pharmaceutical science student… the undergraduate reader, be they chemist, biologist or pharmacist will find this an interesting and valuable read." –Journal of Chemical Biology, May 2009
Presents the latest research and applications for a new, promising approach to fighting infectious diseases
Enzybiotics is a promising way of fighting bacterial or fungal infectious diseases by using viruses or viral-derived lysins. Drawing from the fields of medicinal chemistry, microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry, this book...
Chiral amines are powerful pharmacophores for defining new pharmaceutical drugs (Figure P.1) due to their high density of structural information and inherent ability for hydrogen bonding, yet their synthesis remains a challenge. That challenge is further appreciated when framed in the context of the following goal: the introduction of...
Herbs and spices are among the most versatile and widely used ingredients in food processing. As well as their traditional role in flavouring and colouring foods, they have increasingly been used as natural preservatives and for their potential health-promoting properties. The Handbook of Herbs and Spices Volume 2 provides an essential...
A concise history of the development and practice of Egyptian medicine and its related subjects. It examines the images which are carved and painted on the walls of tombs, represented in statues, in the hieroglyphs and in the papyri and offers and explanation of the types of representation which show obvious disease and deformity. The...
The so-called “green wave”, triggered by a growing ecological awareness, has resulted in
an increased interest in herbal formulations throughout the world, particularly in the last
decade. The consumption of medicinal plants has almost doubled in the West during that
period. The efficacy of a number of herbal formulations...
Nature has solved its most complicated problem, the creation, variation, and improvement
of living organisms, in a simple and efficient manner. Starting from primitive forms in
earth history, mutation and crossover produced variations that had to struggle for their
existence and to compete with their ancestors and genetically...
Carbonic Anhydrase: Its Inhibitors and Activators provides a state-of-the-art overview of the latest developments and challenges in carbonic anhydrase research. Authors describe the mechanisms of action of specific inhibitors in relation to physiological function, and present previously unpublished research on CA activators....
30 years after its discovery as an antitumor agent, cisplatin represents today one of the most successful drugs in chemotherapy. This book is intended to reminisce this event, to take inventory, and to point out new lines of development in this field. Divided in 6 sections and 22 chapters, the book provides an up-to-date account on topics...
It is the objective of this review to introduce the reader to the current status of
organometallic chemistry, oriented towards the development of novel 99mTc-based imaging
agents. This type of inorganic chemistry has nowadays become part of so-called bioorganometallic
chemistry.
The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is of particular importance to humans, and the consumption of tea has a long history of over 2000 years. Currently, tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide. In recent years the subject of tea has attracted a great deal of attention. As well as the use of tea in traditional medicine, modern...
This book is the fourth volume in a seven-volume series titled The Treatment of Disease in TCM authored by Philippe Sionneay and Lu Gang. In this volume, the authors discuss the TCM disease cuases and mechanisms, pattern discrimination, treatment principles, medicinal formulas and acupuncture treatments for a wide variety of pain complains of...
