vi, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents
Modulation of neuroinflammation by medicinal herbs and flavonoids -- Neuroprotective and neurotrophic agents -- Pharmacological activity of natural products in vitro and in animal models of Parkinson's disease and depression -- Oriental medicine in cerebral infarction -- Oxidative and inflammatory cell death induced by [beta]-amyloid and its prevention by dietary and medicinal phytochemicals -- Recent prospective on anti-stress and anti-inflammatory herbal medicines -- Natural products against mast cell-mediated allergic diseases -- Anti-allergic natural products -- Medicinal herbs in innate immunity: a focus on the anti-inflammatory role of decursin in macrophage activation -- Septic shock and isoquinoline alkaloids -- Modulation of immunoglobulin A and cytokine production by natural products -- Development of T cell immunomodulators from natural products -- Metabolism of rutaecarpine, an anti-inflammatory agent
