Satureja: Ethnomedicine, Phytochemical Diversity and Pharmacological Activities

Soodabeh Saeidnia received her Pharm D from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and PhD of Pharmacognosy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). She was a Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University, Japan and awarded Kyoto University Foreign Researcher Fellowship to work as a Research Associate at Kyoto University. She was also a Visiting Professor at Saskatchewan University in the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition's cancer research group. As an Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy in Medicinal Plants Research Center TUMS, she has written 150 papers and books. Her research interests involve natural product chemistry, molecular biology, cancer research, immunopharmacology and traditional medicine. She is a member of the Iranian Society of Pharmacognosy, an editorial board member for a number of international journals, a reviewer of pharmacognosy-related journals. Dr. Saeidnia is highly interested in pharmacologically active natural compounds. In 2014, she was awarded Reviewer of the Year in Daru, J Pharm Sci by Bio Med Central (BMC), Springer. Azadeh Manayi received her Pharm.D degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. After two years as a pharmacist in a hospital center for skin disorders, she took the PhD entrance exam of Pharmacognosy, and subsequently completed the PhD program. Now, she is an assistant professor in Medicinal Plants Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She has published several research and review articles in scientific journals, and also contributed to a number of books including the Encyclopedia of Toxicology (Elsevier, USA) and New Approaches to Natural Anticancer Drugs (Springer).

Introduction.- Satureja: Ethno-pharmacology and Ethno-medicine.- Phytochemical Contents.- Biological activities.- Pharmacological and Biochemical Activity.- Micromorphological Characterizations.- Satureja Bakhtiarica: Phytochemistry and pharmacology.- Discussion and Conclusion.