1. Foreword

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 259

2. Natural products in drug discovery – Creating a new vision

   • Geoffrey A. Cordell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 273

3. Twenty years of research into medicinal plants: Results and perspectives

   • Kurt Hostettmann
   • Andrew Marston

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 285

4. Investigation of some bioactive Thai medicinal plants

   • Chulabhorn Mahidol
   • Hunsa Prawat
   • Somsak Ruchirawat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 297

5. Novel phenylanthraquinones, isofuranonaphthoquinones, homoisoflavonoids, and biflavonoids from African plants in the genera Bulbine, Scilla, Ledebouria, and Rhus

   • Berhanu M. Abegaz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 310

6. Bioactive compounds from some Kenyan ethnomedicinal plants: Myrsinaceae, Polygonaceae and Psiadia punctulata

   • J. Ogweno Midiwo
   • A. Yenesew
   • S. Guchu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 323

7. Isoprenoid flavonoids are new leads in the modulation of chemoresistance

   • Denis Barron
   • Attilio Di Pietro
   • David B. McIntosh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 332

8. Isatis tinctoria – From the rediscovery of an ancient medicinal plant towards a novel anti-inflammatory phytopharmaceutical

   • Matthias Hamburger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 344

9. Secondary metabolites from Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels

   • Zoubida Charrouf
   • Dominique Guillaume

   OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 354

10. Sarcomelicope alkaloids as leads for the discovery of new antitumor acronycine derivatives

    • François Tillequin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 368

11. Isolation and potential cancer chemopreventive activities of phenolic compounds of beer

    • C. Gerhäuser
    • A.P. Alt
    • H. Becker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 369 - 377

12. Biologically active polysaccharides as possible lead compounds

    • Berit Smestad Paulsen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 387

13. Are acylphloroglucinols lead structures for the treatment of degenerative diseases?

    • Luisella Verotta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 407

14. Investigation of biologically active natural products using online LC-bioassay, LC-NMR, and LC-MS techniques

    • W. Kraus
    • Luu Hoang Ngoc
    • B. Vogler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 411

15. High performance separation technologies and spectroscopic tools for plant extract characterization in phytomics

    • G. Stecher
    • C.W. Huck
    • G.K. Bonn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 413 - 426

16. Analytical tools for the detection and characterization of biologically active compounds from nature

    • D.A. van Elswijk
    • H. Irth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 439

17. Subject Index Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2002

    OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 442

18. Instructions for Authors

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 447