This new volume of Medicinal Plants of the world serves as an extraordinary compendium of information on herbal medicine. Picking up where the previous volume left off, it comprehensively documents the medicinal value of twenty-four additional major plant species widely used around the world in medical formulations. The book's exhaustive summary of available scientific data for the plant provides detailed information on how each plant is used in different countries, describing both traditional therapeutic applications and what is known from its use in clinical trials. Additional material presented includes a botanical description of each plant with a color photo of all plants for identification, the common names used for the plant throughout the world, and a listing of the plant's known chemical constituents. A comprehensive bibliography of 3,225 references illuminates the literature available from a wide range of disciplines. This book offers a unprecedented collection of vital scientific information for pharmacologists, herbal medicine practitioners, drug developers, medicinal chemists, phytochemists, toxicologists, and researchers who want to explore the use of plant materials for medicinal and related purposes.

Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional, and Modern Medicinal Uses

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ross, Ivan A.

Alternative Medicine

Humana Press

Leading researchers and experimentalists update the field of flow cytometry with detailed accounts of their many new, improved, and well-tested protocols and applications. Among the cutting-edge methods presented here are techniques for the detection of terminal transferase ion leukemia, intracellular cytokines, intracellular/intranuclear antigens in leukemia and tumors, and cyclins. Protocols for performing functional studies include methods for assessing viability, transmembrane potential, oxidative metabolism, environmental particulate uptake, drug resistance, and cellular pharmacokinetics. The methods for examining DNA address cell cycle analysis, DNA/RNA analysis of solid malignancies, solid-tumor DNA ploidy analysis, apoptosis, and fluorescent in situ hybridization. Protocols for chromosome sorting and 5-6 color analysis are included as advanced methods. The techniques in this volume take advantage of the new instrumentation and probes that have recently been developed to advance the field of flow cytometry and improve standard methods.

Flow Cytometry Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Medical Books

Research

This much anticipated second edition provides a user-friendly, up-to-date handbook of reliable immunochemical techniques optimized for bioscientists. It covers the breadth of relevant established methods from protein blotting and immunoassays through to visualization of cellular antigens and in situ hybridization, each with their latest refinements. Protocols for the production and purification of important classes of immunochemical reagents are also provided, including "conventional" and recombinant antibodies, fusion proteins and their various conjugates. This book will open the door to a new generation of immunochemical reagents with exciting possibilities.

Immunochemical Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals: The Guide for Health Professionals (Nutrition and Health)

Bogden, John D

Klevay, Leslie M

Alzheimer's Disease: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Medicine

Introduction to Proteomics: Tools for the New Biology

Liebler, Daniel C.

The present volume is designed as a practical tutorial survey not only for all those interested in bioinstrumentation and its applications, but also as a text for a one-semester upper-division undergraduate course in instrumentation for bioengineering students. A knowledge of basic physics, basic electronics, and mathematics to elementary linear dif ferential equations is assumed. The book is well suited for use as a reference source for all research and clinical workers in the fields of biology, medicine, and the environmental sciences who have an ade quate background in the physical sciences. At the University of Wyo ming, the text is also used for a course in the interdisciplinary program for graduate study in the neurosciences. The philosophy espoused herein is fundamental system analysis and design, rather than detailed discussion of particular devices produced by commercial manufacturers. Equipment-oriented texts, although initially useful, tend to become obsolete rather rapidly. Basic design and analysis techniques change little with time. Discussion has been limited to devices that have found applications in the biological, environmental, and medical fields. Many transducers used in other disciplines have been omitted. It is not the author's intent to produce a compendium of transducer applications, but rather an introduction to those techniques used in the environmental, biological, and medical sciences.

Introduction to Bioinstrumentation: With Biological, Environmental, and Medical Applications (Contemporary Instrumentation and Analysis)

Clifford D. Ferris

With the advent of Fourier transform spectrometers of great sensitivity, it has become practical to obtain carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (C-13 NMR; l3C NMR; CMR) spectra routinely on organic molecules, and this technique has become one of the highest utility in determining structures of organic unknowns. When the usual spectrometric techniques proton magnetic resonance (H-I NMR; IH NMR; PMR), infrared (lR), mass (MS), and ultraviolet (UV)-do not readily reveal a compound's structure, a C-13 NMR spectrum will often provide sufficient additional information to yield it unequivocally. With this in mind, the present work was designed to give advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practicing chemists a working knowledge of and facility with the use of this valuable technique. Some familiarity with other spectrometric techniques is assumed (recommended book: Silverstein, Bassler, and Morrill, Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds), but no prior knowledge of C-13 NMR -which is treated very lightly, if at all, in the widely used elementary organic texts-is necessary. A discussion of C-13 NMR spectroscopy is followed by 125 problems, each consisting of a molecular formula, two types of C-13 NMR spectra (partially and completely proton decoupled, with connecting lines to facilitate multiplicity assignments), an integrated H-I NMR spectrum, and the most important IR, UV, and MS data. These problems have been very carefully prepared, thoroughly tested by students at the University of Arizona, and we believe that very few errors remain.

Carbon-13 NMR Spectral Problems (Organic Chemistry)

William A. Beavers Robert B. Bates

Chemistry

The past few years have seen the emergence of a growing, widespread desire in this country, and indeed everywhere, that positive actions be taken to restore the quality of our environment, and to protect it from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution-air, noise, solid waste, and water. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste, if there is no waste, there can be no pollution, and the seemingly idealistic demand for "zero discharge" can be construed as a demand for zero waste. However, as long as there is waste, we can only attempt to abate the consequent pollution by converting it to a less noxious form. In those instances in which a particular type of pollution has been recognized, three major questions usually arise: (1) How serious is the pollution? (2) Is the technology to abate it available? and (3) Do the costs of abatement justify the degree of abatement achieved? The principal intention of this series of books on environmental engineering is to help the reader formu late useful answers to the second and third of these questions, i. e. , to outline the best currently available engineering solutions, and to examine their costs in the light of the real level of benefits afforded. The traditional approach of applying tried-and-true solutions to specific pollution problems has been a major factor contributing to the success of environmental engineering, and in large measure has ac counted for the establishment of a "methodology of pollution control.

Biological Treatment Processes: Volume 3 (Handbook of Environmental Engineering)

Earth Sciences

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