Preface -- Contents -- The Contributors -- 1. Use of Plants for Management of Alzheimer's Disease -- INTRODUCTION -- ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO THE TREATMENT OF AD -- PLANTS AND PLANT COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST -- ALKALOIDAL INHIBITORS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 2. Antiviral Activity of Sulfated Polysaccharides of Marine Red Algae -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY: FUNCTIONS AND MECHANISMS -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 3. Anti-Inflammatory and Antiallergic Properties of Triterpenoids from Plants -- INTRODUCTION -- INFLAMMATION -- ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND THEIR ACTION -- RESEARCH ON NEW ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS -- BIOASSAY METHODS -- 1. ANIMAL MODELS OF INFLAMMATION -- 2. IN VITRO ANTI-INFLAMMATORY STUDIES -- ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ANTIALLERGIC ACTIVITY OF SELECTED TRITERPENOIDS -- 2. INHIBITION OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 4. Antioxidant Compounds Extracted from Several Plant Materials -- INTRODUCTION -- CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- PLANT METABOLITES WITH ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY -- SOURCES OF ANTIOXIDANTS FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY -- REFERENCES -- 5. Antimicrobial Activity of Terpenes Isolated from African Plants -- INTRODUCTION -- MONOTERPENES -- SESQUITERPENES -- DITERPENES -- TRITERPENES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 6. Antimalarial and Antifungal Alkaloids from Plants -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTIMALARIAL ALKLOIDS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 7. Anticancer Compounds from Higher Plants -- INTRODUCTION -- OTHER ANTINEOPLASTIC (OR ANTITUMOR) GROUPS (CANDIDATES AS ANTICANCER DRUGS) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8. Biologically Active Natural Products from Marine Fungi -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9. Antioxidant Metabolites from Marine Derived Fungi -- OXIDATIVE STRESS AND ANTIOXIDANTS -- ANTIOXIDANTS FROM MARINE ORGANISMS.

EVALUATION OF MARINE FUNGAL METABOLITES FOR ANTIOXIDATIVE ACTIVITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 10. Antiangiogenic Compounds from Marine Invertebrates -- INTRODUCTION -- POLYSACCHARIDES FROM MARINE ALGAE -- MARINE MICROORGANISMS AND PHYTOPLANKTON -- SPONGES -- BRYOZOANS -- BIOASSAYS -- REFERENCES -- 11. Biologically Active Terpenoids from Sponges -- INTRODUCTION -- SESQUITERPENOIDS -- DITERPENOIDS -- SESTERTERPENOIDS -- TRITERPENOIDS -- POLYPRENYLQUINOLS -- REFERENCES -- 12. Bioactive Polyacetylenic Compounds from Marine Sponges -- INTRODUCTION -- OCCURRENCE OF POLYACETYLENES IN SPONGES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- 13. Bioactive Natural Products from Nudibranchs -- INTRODUCTION -- CHEMICAL STUDIES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- 14. Barnacle Underwater Adhesive: Complexity from Multi-Functionality in a Multi-Protein Complex -- LARVAL ATTACHMENT -- ADULT BARNACLE UNDERWATER ADHESIVE (CEMENT) -- IDENTIFICATION OF THE CEMENT PROTEINS -- UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CEMENT PROTEINS -- COMPARISON WITH HOLDFAST PROTEINS IN OTHER ORGANISMS -- FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF PEPTIDE-BASED MATERIALS -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 15. Secondary Metabolites of Biological Significance from Echinoderms -- INTRODUCTION -- STEROIDAL GLYCOSIDES FROM ASTEROIDEA -- TRITERPENOIDAL OLIGOGLYCOSIDES FROM HOLOTHUROIDEA -- SULFATED POLYHYDROXYSTEROIDS FROM OPHIUROIDEA -- SPHINGOLIPIDS (CEREBROSIDES AND GANGLIOSIDES) -- REFERENCES -- Index.