MEDICINAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
- Course
- PSCI607 - MEDICINAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
- Department
- Pharmaceutical Sciences - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
- -
Course Description
The natural products obtained from plants, microorganisms, algae etc. and their biomedical uses will be studied in this course. A discussion of bioassay-directed screening, the isolation, structure determination, biosynthesis, partial synthesis and total chemical synthesis of organic natural products of medicinal significance. Examples of the classes of compounds to be considered include steroid hormones, cardiac glycosides, alkaloids, antibiotics, terpenes, and the like. Different plants used in pharmaceutical sciences and biomedical sciences as well as the potential of not yet studied plants will be evaluated. Extraction methods aimed at extracting the active ingredients and the methods used to test these ingredients on eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells will be discussed.
MEDICINAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
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Course outcomes
- 01 Evaluate the chemistry of natural products
- 02 Critisize the the efficacy of natural products used as phytomedicne
- 03 Interprete the efficacy of active constituents which are found in natural products
- 04 Formulate drugs of natural products for the treatment of various diseases
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1. Chemistry of Natural Products |
| Week 2 | 2. Distribution od medicinally important carbohydrates in Natural products |
| Week 3 | 3. Chemical classification of glycosides |
| Week 4 | 4. Medicinally important glycosides found in Natural Products |
| Week 5 | 5. Chemistry of Alkaloids |
| Week 6 | 6. Alkaloid containing natural products and their uses in therapy |
| Week 7 | 7. Chemistry and Distribution of Volatile oil in Natural Products |
| Week 8 | 8. Anticancer natural products |
| Week 9 | 9. Importance of natural products as adaptogenic drug |
| Week 10 | 10. Classification of natural products according to their use in Phytotherapy I |
| Week 11 | 11. Classification of natural products according to their use in Phytotherapy II |
| Week 12 | 12. Hallucinogenic and narcotic properties of natural products |
| Week 13 | 13. Pharmacopoeal analysis of medicinally importants natural products |
| Week 14 | - |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy (2009) William C. Evans, 16th ed. Saunders Elsevier, Edinburgh, London, New York , Philadelphia
- 02 Herbal Medicines (2013)Joanne Barnes, Linda Anderson, J.David Phillipson 4th ed. Pharmaceutical Press, London
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