Biotechnology and production of anti-cancer compounds
This book discusses cancers and the resurgence of public interest in plant-based and herbal drugs. It also describes ways of obtaining anti-cancer drugs from plants and improving their production using biotechnological techniques. It presents methods such as cell culture, shoot and root culture, hai...
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| Other Authors | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2017.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9783319538808 9783319538792 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants: Ethno-Uses to Biotechnology Era; Historical Background; Ethnomedicines Uses of Herbs Between the Past and the Present; Ancient Times; In Egypt; In Greece; In China; In India; Middle Ages; Arabic Achievements in Herbal Medicine; Modern Era; Early Modern Era; Turning Points in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Importance of Medicinal Plants Has Increased Recently ... Why?; Why the Need Arises to Search for New Sources of Drugs?; Economic Returns for the Use of Medicinal Plants.
- How to Use the Herbal Medicines? Awareness in the Use of Medicinal Plants; Regulation and Legislation of Herbal Medicines; Medicinal Plants Were Used Traditionally to Heal from Cancer: Why? and How?; Why People Use Herbal Medicine with Cancer?; Medicinal Plants: Cancer Remedies Between the Past and the Present; Herbal Medicines: Traditional Treatment of Cancer Worldwide; New Vision of Medicinal Plants by Biotechnological Lenses; How Will the Medicinal Plants Be Drugs?; Background of Knowledge; Plant Selection; Preparation and Isolation of Bioactive Substances.
- The Need of Pharmacological Validation Benefits of Applying Biotechnology in Medicinal Plants; Why It Has Increased the Need to Apply Biotechnology to Medicinal Plants?; What Are the Advantages of Applied Biotechnological Techniques?; Trace Medicinal Plants from Field to Fork by Biotech Approaches ... Is It Possible?; Determine the Geographical Origin of Herbal Materials Is Vital Requirement ... Why?; Current Techniques Used for Determining the Origin of Medicinal Plants; PCR-DGGE: Innovative Biological Barcode of Medicinal Plants; Conclusion and Future Prospects; References.
- Chapter 2: How Plants Can Contribute to the Supply of Anticancer Compounds Introduction; Plant Secondary Metabolites as Anticancer Drugs; Natural Sources of Plant Metabolites with Anticancer Activity; Production of Small-Molecule Anticancer Compounds in Plants; Protein-Based Anticancer Compounds from Plants; Anticancer Activity of Lectins; Recombinant Protein Expression in Plants; Benefits and Challenges; Product Recovery and Purification; Process Design and Monitoring; Transgenic Plants and the Potential Large-Scale Production of Anticancer Compounds.