Pharmacological Assays of Plant-Based Natural Products

• Main Author: Parimelazhagan, Thangaraj (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Progress in Drug Research, 71
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Analytical chemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Analytical Chemistry.

This volume provides information on how to select and screen plants for their medicinal properties. It describes phytopharmacological techniques for extracting and qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing a plant’s phytochemicals. After a detailed in vitro investigation including nutritional and a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Extraction of plant material
• 2. Critical aspects of purification and impurities in natural product extracts. 3. In vitro antioxidant assays
• 4. In vivo antioxidant assays
• 5. Quantification assays
• 6. Anti-nutritional factors
• 7. Anti-inflammatory activity
• 8. Antipyretic activity
• 9. Inflammation bowel disease
• 10. Anti-arthritic activity
• 11. Evaluation of analgesic potential
• 12. Anti-diarrhoeal activity
• 13. Anti-ulcer activity
• 14. In vitro anti-diabetic activity
• 15. In vivo anti-diabetic activity
• 16. Hepatoprotective property
• 17. Antitumor activity
• 18. In vivo wound healing studies
• 19. Determination of cytotoxicity
• 20. Evaluation of bioavailability
• 21. Molecular identification by DNA barcoding
• 22. Molecular docking of bioactive compounds against BRCA and COX proteins. .