Discovery and Development of Anti-Prostate Cancerous Agents from Natural Products

by Goutam Brahmachari (Editor)

Overview

Discovery and Development of Anti-Prostate Cancer Agents from Natural Products presents cutting-edge research advances in the field of bioactive natural products and natural drug formulations. This new volume in the Natural Products Drug Discovery series focuses on molecules of natural origin and their synthetic analogues that show promising potential to act as anti-prostate cancer and chemotherapeutic agents. Combining foundational background information on cancer mechanisms with details of medicinal structures from natural products, this volume compiles the latest developments from across interdisciplinary fields.

It will serve as a valuable resource for researchers working to discover promising leads for the development of novel pharmaceuticals for prostate cancer, highlighting several key structures from natural products and exploring possible future developments in the area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443218422
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/26/2025
Series:	Natural Product Drug Discovery
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Goutam Brahmachari is a Professor of Chemistry at Visva-Bharati University, India, with over 25 years of teaching and research experience. He specializes in synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, natural products chemistry, and medicinal chemistry of natural and synthetic molecules. Prof. Brahmachari has authored or edited 27 books with leading international publishers and serves as co-editor-in-chief of Current Green Chemistry, as well as being the founding series editor of Elsevier’s Natural Product Drug Discovery series. An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, he has received prestigious awards such as the CRSI Bronze Medal (2021) and the INSA Teachers Award (2019).

Table of Contents

1. Discovery and development of anti-prostate cancer agents from natural products: an overview
2. Cannabinoids and prostate cancer
3. Flavones and prostate cancer
4. A brief sketch on anti-prostate cancer activity of plant phenolics
5. Anti-prostate cancer potential of some alkaloids
6. Prostate cancer and tomato lycopene
7. Medicinal plants from the Mediterranean basin as a source of natural anti-prostate cancer agents
8. Withanolides as anti-prostate cancer agents of promise
9. Triterpenes as new promising anti-prostate cancer agents
10. Nanocarrier-mediated targeted delivery of natural products for prostate cancer
11. The olive oil phenolic (-)-oleocanthal as a novel nutraceutical for prostate cancer progression and recurrence control

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Explores the identification and development of active compounds from natural products as novel anti-prostate cancer agents