Bøker av Ashok Kumar Jha

Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry is a book series devoted to reviews on research topics relevant to medicinal chemistry and allied disciplines. Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry covers developments in rational drug design, bioorganic chemistry, high-throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, compound diversity measurements, drug absorption, drug distribution, metabolism, new and emerging drug targets, natural products, pharmacogenomics, chemoinformatics, and structure-activity relationships. This book series is essential for any medicinal chemist who wishes to be updated on the latest and the most important advances in the field. This is the tenth volume of the series. The extensive volume brings 11 reviews on a variety of topics including anti-cancer drug therapeutics, food chemistry, toxicology and drug development strategies. The list of topics in this volume includes: -Isoxazole derivatives as potential pharmacophore for new drug development-Contemporary trends in drug repurposing: identifying new targets for existing drugs-Pharmaceutical potential of pyrimidines as antiviral agents-Drugs and phytochemicals targeting cancer-Harnessing the neurological properties of indian brain health booster brahmi-Carcinogenicity of hexavalent chromium and its effects-Medicinal plants: a future of modern medical system-Shikonin, a naphthaquinone of commercial importance: its biosynthesis and prospect for use as drugs-Fast foods: chemical composition and implications for health-Implications of DNA-acting agents as anticarcinogenic potential in breast cancer therapeutics-Aloe vera - a medicinal plant as potential therapeutic agents for liver cancer

Discusses in depth advances in solid-state chemistry, the latest techniques of characterization of solids, along with solid-state reactions, their kinetics, phase transitions, and magnetic properties are discussed in detail, along with the electrical properties, such as semiconductors, metals, and insulators.

Bhadra Quartets is essentially about choices and the independence in life at multiple levels-from work and participation to fulfilment of mental, physical, and spiritual urges. Set in the middle of the last century, the largely picaresque novel, like a multicultural rainbow, spans an expansive swathe from Europe to Asia. As some characters journey across countries and continents from United Kingdom to France and Italy, and again from London through Aden to what was then Bombay, their interactions add to the dimension of quest, probing the truth of human passion and love, as well as their role in reconciliation of people in life. The quest carries on in the journey from the west Indian metropolis to a nondescript village in the sub-Himalayan Indian hinterland. The first book of the novel finds Bhadra Pathak, an Indian from a seemingly orthodox background, arrive in London for higher studies. His primary circle there includes his supervisor Dr. Robert Croft; Anette Epstein, another scholar under Croft; Lydia Pal, his landlady; and her daughter Georgina. Young widower Bhadra finds himself conflicted over his feelings for Anette, who herself is no less unsure about relationships and marriage due to past experience. The ensuing interplay of passion, love, and mutual acceptance in the first book leads on in the three subsequent parts to exploration, adventure, enquiry, discovery, and finally, understanding in the otherwise disparate lives of individuals coming from cultures separated by half a turn of the globe.