Natural Health Products and Their Mechanisms of Actions

Undergraduate

The applications of chemical and biochemical processes used in the isolation, identification and evaluation of bioactive constituents found in plants. Topics may include (i) the principle of medicinal chemistry in which plant extracts are prepared and tested for their biological actions, (ii) how Natural- Health Products (NHP) which are plant extracts with medicinal properties are subjected to scientific validation for their further development into natural product drugs, and (iii) the challenges associated with the NHP quality controls (Prerequisite: BIOC-2010). 3 lecture hours/week and 1 tutorial hour/week.