Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis by Wiart, Christophe

Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138037595)

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Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis by Wiart, Christophe

Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis

$270.00
Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis by Wiart, Christophe

Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis

$270.00
Format: Hardcover
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Medicinal Plants in Asia for Metabolic Syndrome: Natural Products and Molecular Basis offers an in-depth view into the metabolic syndrome pharmacology of natural products with an emphasis on their molecular basis, cellular pathways, metabolic organs, and endocrine regulations. This sensational volume provides the scientific names, botanical classifications, botanical descriptions, medicinal uses, chemical constituents, and pharmacological activities of more than 100 Asian plants, with high quality original botanical plates, chemical structures, and pharmacological diagrams. It also lists hundreds of carefully selected bibliographical references, constituents on insulin resistance, obesity, atherosclerosis, atherogenic dyslipidemia, and endothelial dysfunction.



Author: Christophe Wiart
ISBN-10: 1138037591
ISBN-13: 9781138037595
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2017
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.46lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.13d
By Christophe Wiart
By Christophe Wiart
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Christophe Wiart (born August 12, 1967) is a French scientist. His fields of expertise are Asian ethnopharmacology, chemotaxonomy and ethnobotany. He has collected, identified and classified several hundred species of medicinal plants from India, Southeast Asia and China.

Ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants in Asia Pacific; bioprospection, collection and identification of medicinal botanical samples and phytochemical and pharmacological study for the identification of lead compounds as novel antibacterial, anticancer, and antioxidant principles from rare plants from the rainforest of Southeast Asia.

Dr. Christophe Wiart appeared on HBO's Vice (TV Series) in season 3, episode 6 (episode 28 of the series), titled "The Post-Antibiotic World & Indonesia's Palm Bomb." This episode aired on April 17, 2015. It highlighted the need to find new treatments for infections that were previously treatable with antibiotics, but are now resistant to multiple drugs. "The last hope for the human race's survival, I believe, is in the rainforests of tropical Asia", said ethnopharmacologist Dr. Christophe Wiart. "The pharmaceutical wealth of this land is immense".

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