Volume 5 continues the theme of the previous volume by featuring reviews of plant based therapies useful for treating different infectious diseases. Topics in this volume are of general interest to computational chemistry researchers, physicians and a broad range of allied healthcare practitioners. Other highlights of this volume include contributions about COVID-19, and traditional medicine in Algeria and China. The topics included in this volume are:
- Improving curcumin and eugenol through computational chemistry and nanotechnology
- Herbal remedies for respiratory tract infections
- COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive overview of epidemiological, pathogenesis, diagnostic aspects and therapeutic interventions to tackle current outbreak
- Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy on therapeutic effects of herbal medicine in infectious diseases
- Traditional herbal uses from Algerian pharmacopoeia against infectious diseases
- Traditional Chinese medicine for treating infectious diseases: history, progress, and perspectives
This volume is essential reading for all researchers in the field of natural product chemistry and pharmacology. Medical professionals involved in internal medicine who seek to improve their knowledge about herbal medicine and alternative therapies for tropical and other infectious diseases will also benefit from the contents of the volume.
About the Editor:
Ferid Murad is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He received his MD and pharmacology Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1965. He has 131 international publications in the field of physiology, medicine, and pharmacology. He was awarded the Ciba Award Recipient in 1988 and Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 1996.
He was the Vice President, Pharmaceutical Research & Development, and Corporate Officer in Abbott Laboratories, USA during 1990-92. He was the CEO/President, Molecular Geriatrics Corporation, USA during 1993-95. Currently he is Senior Research Advisor at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, California, USA.
Atta-ur-Rahman,FRS, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Cambridge University (1968) has 1,232 international publications (45 international patents and 341 books). He received the following awards: Fellow Royal Society (FRS) London (2006), UNESCO Science Prize (1999), Honorary Life Fellow Kings College, Cambridge University (2007), Academician (Foreign Member) Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015), Highest Civil Award for Foreigners of China (Friendship Award, 2014), High Civil Award Austria ("Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007), Foreign Fellow Chinese Chemical Society (2013), Sc.D. Cambridge University (UK) (1987), TWAS (Italy) Prize (2009). He was the President of Network of Academies of Sciences of Islamic Countries (NASIC), Vice President TWAS (Italy), Foreign Fellow Korean Academy of Science & Technology, President Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2003-2006) and (2011 — 2014). He was the Federal Minister for Science and Technology of Pakistan (2000 2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002) and Chairman Higher Education Commission/Federal Minister (2002-2008), Coordinator General of COMSTECH (01C Ministerial Committee) (1996-2012), and the Editor-in-Chief of Current Medicinal Chemistry.
Ka Bian research has been focused on NO / cGMP signaling. Through the research on human adult and/or embryonic and cancer stem cells, Dr. Bian has proposed that NO/ cGMP signaling exerts its pathologic effects with two major mechanisms: Up-stream iNOS centered pathway is involved in the enhanced pro-inflammatory status that is key element for cellular damage and cancer micro-environment formation. Down-stream sGC / cGMP mediated pathway is responsible to proliferation, differentiation and self-renewal of stem/cancer cells. Dr. Bian is expanding the research into the area of cancer metastasis and therapeutic resis-tance since deciphering the role of NO-sGC signaling would facilitate development of strate-gies to interfere with malignant and metastasis processes.
Keywords:
Bioengineering, Curcumin, Eugenol, Nanoparticles, Semi-synthetic analogs, Medicinal plants, Respiratory tract infections, Chemometrics, Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy, Laboratory Methods for Biocompatible Drug Discovery, Traditional Chinese medicine, Zhongjing’s formulae.
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