Numerous herbal plants are used as an important source of life saving drugs for the world's population. Herbal plants are the natural source of several medicines, mainly due to their secondary metabolites, and have long been in use as medicine in the crude extract form. They are also used to isolate the bioactive compounds in modern medicine and herbal medicine systems. They play an important role in the development, synthesis, and formulation of new drugs. Includes chapters on relevant topics contributed by experts of the subjects to make available a comprehensive treatise with in-depth analysis. Audience - those specifically in herbal plant-based drug formulation - presents biotechnological techniques to obtain the desirable products from some specific herbal plants.

Numerous herbal plants are used as an important source of life saving drugs for the world's population. Herbal plants are the natural source of several medicines, mainly due to their secondary metabolites, and have long been in use as medicine in the crude extract form. They are also used to isolate the bioactive compounds in modern medicine and herbal medicine systems. They play an important role in the development, synthesis, and formulation of new drugs. Includes chapters on relevant topics contributed by experts of the subjects to make available a comprehensive treatise with in-depth analysis. Audience - those specifically in herbal plant-based drug formulation - presents biotechnological techniques to obtain the desirable products from some specific herbal plants.

The book showcases the newest research on smart nanoplatforms responding to “hypoxia�; an omnipresent pathological feature of many modern-day diseases and its potential applications. The book demonstrates the versatility of hypoxia targeted smart nanoplatforms in disease management in diverse pathological settings presented in chapters contributed by various experts in the field. The themes in the book touch upon critical facets to address pathological hypoxia such as nanomaterials enhancing oxygenation, hypoxia responsive nanoformulations which deliver the drug directly to the hypoxic site, limited toxicity and enhanced efficacy of smart nanoformulations to counter molecular consequences of hypoxia, and theranostics combining hypoxia detection systems with drug delivery systems. This book disseminates the current implications of smart nanomaterials in disease management that can be exploited by scholars, researchers, and pharma industries to develop, manufacture, and commercialize hypoxia targeted diagnostics and therapeutics.