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Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : |
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Bibliographical information (record 160617) |
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Medicinal resources of the tropical forest : |
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biodiversity and its importance to human health / |
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Columbia University Press,
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0231101708
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1996.
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QV766 |
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615/.32/0913 |
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Norman R. Farnsworth -- Pt. 1. Biodiversity Prospecting, Drug Development, and Conservation. 1. Natural Products and Medicine: An Overview / Varro E. Tyler. 2. Biological Diversity, Chemical Diversity, and the Search for New Pharmaceuticals / James D. McChesney. 3. Development of Pharmaceutical Companies Based on Plant Products: Suggested Approaches / Douglas Davidson, Peter J. Hylands, William Rod Sharp and Roy W. Stahlhut. 4. Chemical Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicines / Domingos Savio Nunes. 5. The Contribution of the Physician to Medicinal Plant Research / Douglas C. Daly and Charles F. Limbach. 6. Conservation and Tropical Medicinal Plant Research / Steven R. King. 7. Higher Plants Versus Microorganisms: Their Future in Pharmaceutical Research / Georg Albers-Schonberg. 8. Topotecan Development: An Example of the Evolution of Natural Product Drug Discovery Research / Brad K. Carte and Randall K. Johnson. 9. Shaman Pharmaceuticals' Approach to Drug Development / Lisa A. Conte. 10. Drug Discovery and Development at the National Cancer Institute: The Role of Natural Products of Plant Origin / Gordon M. Cragg and Michael R. Boyd. 11. The Merck/INBio Agreement: A Pharmaceutical Company Perspective / Lynn Helena Caporale. 12. Biodiversity Prospecting / Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld, Daniel Janzen, Michael A. Gollin and Calestous Juma. 13. Property Rights and Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis / Jack R. Kloppenburg, Jr. and Michael J. Balick. 14. Monetizing the Pharmacological Benefits of Plants / Peter P. Principe. 15. Capturing the Pharmaceutical Value of Species Information: Opportunities for Developing Countries / Bruce A. Aylward -- Pt. 2. Country and Regional Programs in Medicinal Plant Research and Health Care. 16. Resource Utilization and Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa / Maurice M. Iwu. 17. The Economic Value and Potential for Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals from Ghana / G. T. Odamtten, E. Laing and D. K. Abbiw. 18. The Rwanda Experience in enhancing and Commercializing the Use of Traditional Medicinal Plants / Luc Van Puyvelde. 19. The Role of Medicinal Plants in Health Care in India / James A. Duke. 20. A Standardized Commiphora wightii Preparation for Management of Hyperlipidemic Disorders / B. N. Dhawan. 21. Plant Explorations in Asia Under the Sponsorship of the National Cancer Institute, 1986-1991: An Overview / Djaja Doel Soejarto, Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Peter S. Ashton and S. H. Sohmer. 22. Medicinal Plants of Mexico: A Program for Their Scientific Validation / Xavier Lozoya. 23. TRAMIL: A Research Project on the Medicinal Plant Resources of the Caribbean / Lionel Robineau and Djaja Doel Soejarto. 24. Ethnopharmacological Studies and Biological Conservation in Belize / Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire and Robert Mendelsohn. 25. Tropical Medicinal Plant Conservation and Development Projects: The Case of the Costa Rican National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) / Ana Sittenfeld. 26. FENAMAD's Program in Traditional Medicine: An Integrated Approach to Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon / Miguel N. Alexiades and Didier Lacaze D. 27. Environment, Society, and Disease: The Response of Phytotherapy to Disease Among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco Delta / Werner Wilbert. 28. Medicinal Plant Research in Brazil: Data from Regional and National Meetings / Alba R. M. Souza and Antonio A. Souza Brito. 29. Community Ethnobotany: Setting Foundations for an Informed Decision on Trading Rain Forest Resources / Elaine Elisabetsky -- Appendix: Manual for Plant Collections / Elaine Elisabetsky, Rachel Trajber and Lin Chao Ming -- Epilogue / Richerd Deertrack.
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NEU Grand LibraryGrnd. Floor (QV766 .M4873 1996)
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Medical Section |
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