Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development

Plant Biodiversity — Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives.- Chemodiversity and the Biological Role of Secondary Metabolites, Some Thoughts for Selecting Plant Material for Drug Development.- Evolving Strategies for the Selection, Dereplication and Prioritization of Antitumor and HIV-Inhibitory Natural Products Extracts.- Screening Methods for Detection and Evaluation of Biological Activities of Plant Preparations.- The Use of Receptor Binding, a Very Specific, High Capacity Screening Method, in the Identification of Biologically Active Components from Natural Sources.- Biological and Chemical Evaluation of Plant Extracts and Subsequent Isolation Strategy.- Natural Products with Antiprotozoal Activity.- In-Vitro Assays for Activity-Guided Enrichment of Immunomodulatory Plant Constituents.- Search for Potent Immunomodulatory Agents from Plants and Other Sources.- Cyclooxygenase and 5-Lipoxygenase as Targets for Medicinal Plant Research.- Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development.- QPRI’s System for Screening of Natural Products.- Phytera’s Strategy for the Discovery of Novel Anti-Infective Agents from Plant Cell Cultures.- Expediting Drug Development Through the Use of Plants.- The Future Role of Natural Products in Drug Discovery.