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Application of Models in Pharmacology, Medicine, and Ecology

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Model Systems to Study the Excretory Function of Higher Plants

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Models used for fundamental studies of plant excretory function (Chaps. 1, 2, 3, and 4) may also be applied for express analysis in medicine and pharmacology as well as toxicology linked with ecology, agriculture, and forestry. First of all plant secretions are a base for natural drugs analyzed in pharmacology from ancient times. Today it also has become a part of pharmacological botany. Botanical medicine, mainly, is considered in microscopic analysis of actively secreting medicinal plant species (see fundamental book Upton et al. 2011) and learned as the necessary discipline in medicinal courses of universities (Murav’eva 1981; Samylina and Anosova 2010). Handbooks in the wide field of medicinal herbs, including analysis of their biological activity, have been published (Golovkin et al. 2001; Duke 2002, 2003; Polya 2003; Ebadi 2007). Studies in allelopathic relations in biocenosis become linked with the pharmacology because most allelochemicals as secretory products are drugs (Roshchina et al. 2011a, b). Moreover, secretions enriched in allelochemicals may be biological controllers of pathogens in nature (Inderjit and Mukerji 2006).

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Roshchina, V.V. (2014). Application of Models in Pharmacology, Medicine, and Ecology. In: Model Systems to Study the Excretory Function of Higher Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8786-4_5

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