Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery

First volume in this series covers topics such as: drugs from nature, natural products for high-throughput screening, ethnomedicine of the Cherokee, drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria, bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources, and more. DNLM: Ethnobotany.

Introduction: therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine

1

(22)

Maurice M Iwu

Drugs from nature: past achievements, future prospects

23

(16)

Gordon M Cragg

David J Newman

Natural products for high-throughput screening

39

(6)

Alan L Harvey

Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases

45

(10)

Thomas JS Carlson

Development of HerbMed®: an interactive, evidence-based herbal database

55

(6)

Jacqueline C Wootton

Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist

61

(10)

S Mbua Ngale Efange

Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare: a framework for South-eastern Nigeria

71

(10)

Chioma Obijiofor

Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge: problems, concepts and lessons for the future

81

(22)

Robert Lettington

Bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation

103

(14)

Anthony Onugu

Balancing conservation with utilization: restoring populations of commercially valuable herbs in forests and agroforests

117

(8)

Richard A Cech

Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee: historical and current applications

125

(8)

Jody E Noe

Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action

133

(12)

Elaine Elisabetsky

Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria: some results

145

(10)

Joseph I Okogun

Plants, products and people: Southern African perspectives

155

(8)

Nigel Gericke

Development of antimalarial agents and drugs for parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine: the Walter Reed experience

163

(10)

Brian G Schuster

Health foods in anti-aging therapy: reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases

173

(8)

Lisa Meserole

Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles: definitions under Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

181

(10)

Katy Moran

Garcinia kola: a new look at an old adaptogenic agent

191

(10)

Maurice M Iwu

Angela Duncan Diop

Lisa Meserole

Chris O Okunji

Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine

201

(10)

Michael A Gollin

The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects

211

(30)

Marianne Guerin-McManus

Kent C Nnadozie

Sarah A Laird

The regulation of botanicals as drugs and dietary supplements in Europe

241

(8)

Joerg Gruenwald

Regulation of herbal medicines in Nigeria: the role of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)

249

(10)

Gabriel E Osuide

Considerations in the development of public standards for botanicals and their dosage forms

259

(8)

V Srini Srinivasan

The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize

267

(16)

Michael J Balick

Rosita Arvigo

Gregory Shropshire

Jay Walker

David Campbell

Leopoldo Romero

Ethnobotanical research into the 21st century

283

(26)

Susan Tarka Nelson-Harrison

Steven R King

Charles Limbach

Carey Jackson

Andrew Galiwango

Sirimani Kisingi Kato

BR Kanyerezi

Ethnobotanical approach to pharmaceutical drug discovery: strengths and limitations

309

(12)

Maurice M Iwu

Contributors

321

(4)

Subject Index

325

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