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Author: Iqbal Ahmad (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India) ,
Farrukh Aqil (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India) ,
Mohammad Owais (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.862kg
ISBN: 9783527315307
ISBN 10: 3527315306
Pages: 404
Publication Date: 10 October 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
...Primariliy, this book is dedicated, but also highly recommended, to students, teachers and researchers enganged in universities, R&D insitutions, pharmaceutical or herbal industry, as well as health organizations. Advances in Food Sciences, 07/2007
...Primariliy, this book is dedicated, but also highly recommended, to students, teachers and researchers enganged in universities, R&D insitutions, pharmaceutical or herbal industry, as well as health organizations. Advances in Food Sciences, 07/2007 Die Kenntnis der traditionellen Verwendung von Arzneipflanzen liefert uber das kulturgeschichtliche Interesse hinaus wertvolle Hinweise zu Indikation und Wirkweise. Der neue Apotheker
Author Information
Iqbal Ahmad is a senior lecturer of agricultural microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of the Medicinal Plants Research Project of the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. A graduate of AMU, he worked as a research scientist at the Himalaya Drug Company before moving to the AMU's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He has so far screened more than 150 traditional Indian medicinal plants for their biological activities and potential prospection. Farrukh Aqil is Project Fellow working on the major research project on medicinal plants at the AMU Department of Agricultural Microbiology. His current work includes biological activities of Indian medicinal plants against MDR bacteria, antioxidants, and the antimutagenicity potential of bioactive plant extracts. Mohammad Owais currently holds a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He trained at CDRI, Lucknow and IMTECH, Chandigarh, and worked during his post doctoral training with Dr. R. C. Gallo's group at the NIH, USA. His present work is focusing on the screening of various herbal drugs for their potential to treat drug resistant infections, and developing and applying drug delivery systems to herbal drugs to assess the efficacy, stability and toxicity in animal models.
