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Presents frontier reviews on the developments on bioactive natural products in various areas by experts in their respective fields. This volume is a useful addition to this important series on natural product chemistry which is generally acknowledged to be the leading series on Natural Product Chemistry.
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Antitumor agent 248. Chemistry and antitumor activity of tylophorine-related alkaloidsLINYI WEI, ARNOLD BROSSI, SUSAN L. MORRIS-NATSCHKE, KENNETH F. BASTOW AND KUO-HSIUNG LEE Antitumor and antimetastatic actions of various natural productsYOSHIYUKI KIMURANatural stilbenes and analogues as ntineoplastic agentsFULVIA ORSINI AND GUIDO SELLODiscoveries of the diels-alderasesAKITAMI ICHIHARALipids of membranes: Chemistry, biological role and applications as drug carriersSOPHIA HATZIANTONIOY AND COSTAS DEMETZOSMetabolism of plant hormones cytokinins and their function in signaling, celldifferentiation and plant developmentPETR GALUSZKA, LUKÁS SPÍCHAL, DAVID KOPECNÝ,PETR TARKOWSKI, JITKA FRÉBORTOVA, MAREK SEBELA AND IVO FRÉBORT(+)-Biotin: A challenge for industrially viable total synthesis of natural productsMASAHIKO SEKIBiotechnology for the production of plant natural productsRAFAEL ZARATE, NABIL EL JABER-VAZDEKIS, ELENA CEQUIER-SÁNCHEZ, FÁTIMA GUTÍERREZ-NICOLÁS AND ÁNGEL G. RAVELORoles of insect and mammal pheromones: Vomeronasal receptorsDANIEL GARCÍA VELÁZQUEZ, JOSÉ J. MARRERO TELLADO AND ANGEL G. RAVELOStilbenoids: Chemistry and bioactivitiesKAI XIAO, HONG-JUN ZHANG, LI-JIANG XUAN, JUAN ZHANG,YA-MING XU AND DONG-LU BAITissue culture of medicinal plants: Micropropagation, transformation andproduction of useful secondary metabolitesKAYO YOSHIMATSUIsoquinuclidines: A review of chemical and pharmacological propertiesM.O. FARUK KHAN, MARK S. LEVI, C. RANDALL CLARK,SETH Y. ABLORDEPPEY, SAY-JONG LAW, NORMAN H. WILSON AND RONALD F. BORNEHyaluronic acid: Its function and degradation in in vivo systemsGRIGORIJ KOGAN, LADISLAV SOLTES, ROBERT STERN,JÜRGEN SCHILLER AND RANIERO MENDICHIHigh altitude plants, chemistry of acclimation and adaptationMIGUEL E. ALONSO-AMELOT
