Bioactive Natural Products

✍ Scribed by Atta-ur-Rahman (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
• Year: 2012
• Leaves: 405
• Series: Studies in Natural Products Chemistry 36
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages ix-x

Preface
Page xi
Atta-ur-Rahman

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry edited by Atta-ur-Rahman
Pages xiii-xiv

Chapter 1 - Isolation, Biological Activities, and Synthesis of the Natural Casuarines
Pages 1-26
Thunwadee Ritthiwigrom, Stephen G. Pyne

Chapter 2 - The Acylpolyamines from Spider Venoms
Pages 27-42
Mario Sergio Palma

Chapter 3 - Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents as a New Source of Drug Discovery
Pages 43-66
Eric Andrianasolo, Richard Lutz, Paul Falkowski

Chapter 4 - Marine Cyanobacteria: A Treasure Trove of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites for Drug Discovery
Pages 67-110
Lik Tong Tan

Chapter 5 - Novel Bioactive Peptides from Cyanobacteria: Functional, Biochemical, and Biomedical Significance
Pages 111-161
Jamal M. Arif, Alvina Farooqui, Mohammad Haris Siddiqui, Mohammed Al-Karrawi, Awdah Al-Hazmi, Othman A. Al-Sagair

Chapter 6 - Bioactive Marine Prenylated Quinones/Quinols
Pages 163-218
Salvatore de Rosa, Giuseppina Tommonaro

Chapter 7 - Chlorosulfolipids
Pages 219-247
Teppei Kawahara, Tatsufumi Okino

Chapter 8 - Diversity and Ecological Significance of Fungal Endophyte Natural Products
Pages 249-296
Soizic Prado, Yanyan Li, Bastien Nay

Chapter 9 - Flavonoids as Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Drugs: Mechanisms of Action and Perspectives in the Development of Pharmaceutical Forms
Pages 297-330
Waldiceu A. Verri Jr., Fabiana T.M.C. Vicentini, Marcela M. Baracat, Sandra R. Georgetti, Renato D.R. Cardoso, Thiago M. Cunha, Sergio H. Ferreira, Fernando Q. Cunha, Maria J.V. Fonseca, Rubia Casagrande

Chapter 10 - Antileishmanial Natural Products from Plants
Pages 331-382
Ifedayo V. Ogungbe, Meenakshi Singh, William N. Setzer

Author Index
Pages 383-401