Herbal Medicine in Depression

Traditional Medicine to Innovative Drug Delivery

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Springer International Publishing | e druk, 2018
ISBN13: 9783319791937
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Springer International Publishing e druk, 2018 9783319791937
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Samenvatting

This book is written for researchers, undergraduate students
and postgraduate students, physicians and traditional medicine practitioners
who develop research in the field of neurosciences, phytochemistry and
ethnopharmacology or can be useful for their practice. Topics discussed include
the description of depression, its biochemical causes, the targets of
antidepressant drugs, animal and cell models commonly used in the research of
this pathology, medicinal plants and bioactive compounds with antidepressant
activity used in traditional medicine, advances in nanotechnology for drug
delivery to the brain and finally the future challenges for researchers
studying this pathology.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9783319791937
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

Inhoudsopgave

<p>Depressive disorders: prevalence, costs and theories.- Traditional and
novel possible targets for antidepressant drugs.- Cell-based systems of depression: An overview.- Animal
models of depression.- Prevalence of use of herbal medicines
and complementary and alternative medicine in Europe.- Medicinal plants of
former USSR used for treatment of depression.- Chinese herbal medicine used
against depression in China.- antidepressant medicinal plants and compounds
used in traditional medicines in North America.- antidepressant plant species
from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).- Oceania: antidepressant
medicinal plants.- Novel drug
delivery systems for herbal antidepressants.- Future strategies for depression
treatment.</p>

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