Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 41

✍ Scribed by Atta-ur-Rahman (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Series: Studies in Natural Products Chemistry
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting new opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

The series also covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products.

• Describes the chemistry of bioactive natural products
• Contains contributions by leading authorities in the field
• A valuable resource for natural products and medicinal chemistry

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages xiii-xv

Preface
Pages xvii-xviii
Atta-ur-Rahman

Chapter 1 - Recent Insights into the Emerging Role of Triterpenoids in Cancer Therapy: Part II
Pages 1-32
Rosa Tundis, Francesco Menichini, Monica Rosa Loizzo

Chapter 2 - Highlights of Pentacyclic Triterpenoids in the Cancer Settings
Pages 33-73
Jorge A.R. Salvador, Ana S. Leal, Daniela P.S. Alho, Bruno M.F. Gonçalves, Ana S. Valdeira, Vanessa I.S. Mendes, Yongkui Jing

Chapter 3 - Immunomodulatory and Anticancer Activity of Sea Cucumber Triterpene Glycosides
Pages 75-94
Dmitry L. Aminin, Evgeny A. Pislyagin, Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya, Alexandra S. Silchenko, Sergey A. Avilov, Vladimir I. Kalinin

Chapter 4 - Bioactive Annonaceous Acetogenins
Pages 95-117
Robert E. Smith, Kevin Tran, Kristy M. Richards

Chapter 5 - Bioactive Naphthoquinones from Higher Plants
Pages 119-160
Ingrid Hook, Clive Mills, Helen Sheridan

Chapter 6 - Antiobesity Effects of Natural Products from an Epigenetic Perspective
Pages 161-193
Esther C.Y. Woon, Joel D.W. Toh

Chapter 7 - Natural Polyphenols as Potent Inhibitors of DNA Methyltransferases
Pages 195-223
Hamid Marzag, Pierre Warnault, Khalid Bougrin, Nadine Martinet, Rachid Benhida

Chapter 8 - The Chemistry and Bioactivity of Eucommia ulmoides Oliver Leaves
Pages 225-260
Tetsuya Hirata, Tsuyoshi Ikeda, Takahiko Fujikawa, Sansei Nishibe

Chapter 9 - Aloe Vera Gel in Food, Health Products, and Cosmetics Industry
Pages 261-285
Shabnam Javed, Atta-ur-Rahman

Chapter 10 - Synthesis of Marine-Derived Carbasugar Pericosines
Pages 287-319
Yoshihide Usami

Chapter 11 - Bioactive Components from Leaf Vegetable Products
Pages 321-346
Francisco J. Barba, María J. Esteve, Ana Frígola

Chapter 12 - Milk Fat Globule Membrane Material: Isolation Techniques, Health-Beneficial Properties, and Potential Applications
Pages 347-382
Thien Trung Le, John Van Camp, Koen Dewettinck

Chapter 13 - Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Natural Product Molecules Using Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Pages 383-417
João M. Batista Jr., Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani

Chapter 14 - Bioactive Metabolites from Rare Actinomycetes
Pages 419-512
Kavita Tiwari, Rajinder K. Gupta

Index
Pages 513-518