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Phytochemicals from medicinal plants are receiving ever greater attention in the scientific literature, in medicine, and in the world economy in general. For example, the global value of plant-derived pharmaceuticals will reach $500 billion in the year 2000 in the OECD countries. In the developing countries, over-the-counter remedies and "ethical phytomedicines," which are standardized toxicologically and clinically defined crude drugs, are seen as a promising low­ cost alternatives in primary health care. The field also has benefited greatly in recent years from the interaction of the study of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge and the application of modem phytochemical analysis and biological activity studies to medicinal plants. The papers on this topic assembled in the present volume were presented at the annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, held in Mexico City, August 15-19, 1994. This meeting location was chosen at the time of entry of Mexico into the North American Free Trade Agreement as another way to celebrate the closer ties between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The meeting site was the historic Calinda Geneve Hotel in Mexico City, a most appropriate site to host a group of phytochemists, since it was the address of Russel Marker. Marker lived at the hotel, and his famous papers on steroidal saponins from Dioscorea composita, which launched the birth control pill, bear the address of the hotel.

Phytochemicals from medicinal plants are receiving ever greater attention in the scientific literature, in medicine, and in the world economy in general. For example, the global value of plant-derived pharmaceuticals will reach $500 billion in the year 2000 in the OECD countries. In the developing countries, over-the-counter remedies and "ethical phytomedicines," which are standardized toxicologically and clinically defined crude drugs, are seen as a promising low­ cost alternatives in primary health care. The field also has benefited greatly in recent years from the interaction of the study of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge and the application of modem phytochemical analysis and biological activity studies to medicinal plants. The papers on this topic assembled in the present volume were presented at the annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, held in Mexico City, August 15-19, 1994. This meeting location was chosen at the time of entry of Mexico into the North American Free Trade Agreement as another way to celebrate the closer ties between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The meeting site was the historic Calinda Geneve Hotel in Mexico City, a most appropriate site to host a group of phytochemists, since it was the address of Russel Marker. Marker lived at the hotel, and his famous papers on steroidal saponins from Dioscorea composita, which launched the birth control pill, bear the address of the hotel.

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1. Immunostimulants and Adaptogens from Plants / Hildebert K. M. Wagner = 1
2. Natural Product Cancer Chemopreventive Agents / John M. Pezzuto = 19
3. Antivaral and Anotitumor Plant Metabolites / John A. Beutler ; John H. Cardellina ; James B. McMahon ; Robert H. Shoemaker ; Michel R. Boryd = 47
4. Biological Diversity of Medicinal Palnts in Mexico / Robert Bye ; Edelmira Linares ; Eric Esitrada = 65
5. Bioactive Natural Products from Traditionally Used Mexican Plants / Rogelio Pereda-Miranda = 83
6. Bioassay-Guided Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Pharmacologically Active Plant Substances / A. J. Vlietinck ; L. A. C. Pieters ; D. A. Vander Berghe = 113
7. Biologically Active Compounds from Chileam Medicinal Plants / Hermann M. Niemeyer = 137
8. Phytochemicals Ingested in Traditional Diets and Medicines as Modulators of Energy Metabolism / Timothy Johns ; Laurie Chapman = 161
9. Applications of Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry to the Inverstigation of Medicina Plants / Jean-Lu Wolfender ; Kurt Hostettmann = 189
10. Root Cupture as a Source of Secondary Metabolotes of Economix Importance = 217
11. Annonaceous Acetogenins : Potent Mitochondrial Inhibitors with Diverse Applications / Zhe-Ming Gu ; Geng-Xian Zhao ; Nicholas H. Oberlies ; Lu Zeng ; Jerry L. McLaughlin = 249
12. Neo-Clerodane Diterpenoid from Americal Salvia Species / Lydia Rodriguez-Hahn ; Baldomero Esquivel ; Jorge Cardenas = 311
13. Sesquiterpene Lactones Revisited : Recent Developments in the Assessment of Biological Astivities and Structure Relationships / Robin J. Marles ; Linana Pazos-Sanou ; Cesar M. Compadre ; John M. Pezzuto ; Elzbieta Boszyk ; Thor Arnason = 333
Index = 357