Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

✍ Scribed by Atta-ur-Rahman (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
• Year: 2013
• Leaves: 474
• Series: Studies in Natural Products Chemistry 39
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages xiii-xv

Preface
Pages xvii-xviii
Atta-ur-Rahman

Chapter 1 - Bioprospecting in the Berkeley Pit: The Use of Signal Transduction Enzyme Inhibition Assays to Isolate Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from the Extremophilic Fungi of an Acid Mine Waste Lake
Pages 1-45
Andrea A. Stierle, Donald B. Stierle

Chapter 2 - Natural and Synthetic Chalcones: Tools for the Study of Targets of Action—Insulin Secretagogue or Insulin Mimetic?
Pages 47-89
Luisa Helena Cazarolli, Virginia Demarchi Kappel, Ana Paula Zanatta, Daniela Ota Hisayasu Suzuki, Rosendo Augusto Yunes, Ricardo José Nunes, Moacir Geraldo Pizzolatti, Fátima Regina Mena Barreto Silva

Chapter 3 - Natural Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Leads from Herbal Resources
Pages 91-113
Pulok K. Mukherjee, Niladri Maity, Neelesh K. Nema, Birendra K. Sarkar

Chapter 4 - Materials Science and Engineering of Mucin: A New Aspect of Mucin Chemistry
Pages 115-159
Kiminori Ushida, Takeomi Murata

Chapter 5 - Recent Advances in the Synthetic Studies of Pestalotiopsin A and Related Caryophyllene-Type Sesquiterpenoids
Pages 161-187
Ken-Ichi Takao, Kin-Ichi Tadano

Chapter 6 - Emerging Targets in the Bioactivity of Ellipticines and Derivatives
Pages 189-232
Elaine C. O'Sullivan, Charlotte M. Miller, Fiona M. Deane, Florence O. McCarthy

Chapter 7 - Bioactive Natural Products from Enantiomeric Carvones
Pages 233-267
Fliur Zainutdin Macaev

Chapter 8 - Plant Polyphenols: Recent Advances in Epidemiological Research and Other Studies on Cancer Prevention
Pages 269-295
Athanasios Valavanidis, Thomais Vlachogianni

Chapter 9 - Bioprospection of Potential Trypanocidal Drugs: A Scientific Literature Survey over the Period 2000–2010
Pages 297-336
Liliana V. Muschietti, Valeria P. Sülsen, Virginia S. Martino

Chapter 10 - Accumulation of Potential Pharmaceutically Relevant Lichen Metabolites in Lichens and Cultured Lichen Symbionts
Pages 337-380
Elfie Stocker-Wörgötter, Lucimara Mach Cortes Cordeiro, Marcello Iacomini

Chapter 11 - Plant-Derived Natural Products for the Treatment of Leishmaniasis
Pages 381-429
Jens Rohloff, Ariaya Hymete, Yinebeb Tariku

Chapter 12 - Development and Discovery Avenues in Bioactive Natural Products for Glycemic Novel Therapeutics
Pages 431-466
Suresh R. Naik, Ganesh R. Kokil

Index
Pages 467-476