Pharmacological Assays of Plant-Based Natural Products / Thangaraj Parimelazhagan
Publication year: 2016
: 978-3-319-26811-8
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 anti-nutritional analyses, medicinal properties were tested with various in vivo models for anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-pyretic, anticancer and anti-diabetic properties, as well as wound healing, neurodegenerative diseases, etc. Compound identification and purification techniques include, among others, TLC and column chromatography, as well as molecular docking with specific proteins.
: Pharmacology, Plant Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Phytopharmacology, Antioxidants, Nutraceuticals, In vivo studies, Phytochemistry
