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Pharmacognosy and Bioactive products

Pharmacognosy and Bioactive products

Content

1. The importance of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) in human civilization
2. Introduction to ethnobotany
3. Introduction to pharmacology
4. Human physiology
5. Main classes of bioactive products
6. Biosynthetic pathways
7. Terpenoids
8. Alkaloids
9. Other groups
10. Cultivation and utilization of selected MAPs.

Learning results

Bibliography

• G. Samuelsson, Φαρμακευτικά Προϊόντα Φυσικής Προελεύσεως, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης 2011
• W.C. Evans, Trease and Evans' Pharmacognosy, 16th ed., Saunders, 2009
• Σ. Κατσιώτης., Π. Χατζοπούλου, Αρωματικά Φαρμακευτικά Φυτά και Αιθέρια Έλαια, Αφοι Κυριακίδη 2010
• S. Kintzios& M. Barberaki,Plants that Fight Cancer, , Taylor & Francis, 2004

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