About the book
The book will deal with herbs and higher plants containing terpene and terpenoids. Terpene and terpenoids are responsible for giving some important medicine such as taxol and artemisinin. Terpene and terpenoids possess anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory pharmacological activities. The objective of the book is to determine the bio-therapeutics of terpene and terpenoids. The book will review the current status of pharmacological active bio compounds under this class and will provide an update to present knowledge. The book intends to identify new bioactive compounds using the drug-repositioning methodology and computational and systematic analysis of available literature. The book will also investigate available resources among terpene and terpenoids to treat rare diseases such as neurological disorders and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). It will review the clinical trial status of biomolecules and tentatively give a new direction to extract terpenes and terpenoids, which can cut the cost of extraction. Finally, the biosynthesis of terpenes will be reviewed with a view to understanding their biochemical mechanism.
