Published, JBC Papers in Press, June 14, 2012, DOI 10.1074/jbc.R111.300129 Ulf Göransson, Robert Burman, Sunithi Gunasekera, Adam A. Strömstedt, and K. Johan Rosengren From the Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden and the School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072...

1 School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 3Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2560, Australia 5Department of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Pharmaceu...

Drug adulteration is equally important for the history of medicine, pharmacy, the pure sciences such as chemistry and physics, and social history. This is fully appreciated by Stieb whose book, in some measure, forms a companion volume to F. A. Filby's A History of Food Adulteration and Analysis, London, 1934. After a general introduction leading to the year 1820 (Accum's Treatise on Adulterati...

Garcia de Orta was one of the pioneers (according to western view) of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy and ethnobotany. de Orta’s parents who migrated from Spain as Jewish refugees were forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 though there was a doubt that they practiced Judaism secretely.de Orta studied medicine in Portugal and fearing the infamous Portuguese inquisition where neochristians ...

*Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, M.S.Ramaiah College of Pharmacy, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka India,1Department of pharmacy, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608002, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India,2Department of Pharmacognosy, M.S.Ramaiah College of Pharmacy, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka India,3School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA University, Thanjavur 613402, Tamil Nadu, In...

SORIN AVRAM1, STEFANA AVRAM2*, CRISTINA DEHELEAN3 1 Romanian Academy, Institute of Chemistry Timisoara, 24 Mihai Viteazul Blvd., 300223, Timisoara, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara, Faculty of Pharmacy, Discipline of Pharmacognosy, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 3 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara, Faculty of Pharmacy...