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Antitumor agent 248. Chemistry and antitumor activity of tylophorine-related alkaloidsLINYI WEI, ARNOLD BROSSI, SUSAN L. MORRIS-NATSCHKE, KENNETH F. BASTOW AND KUO-HSIUNG LEE Antitumor and antimetastatic actions of various natural productsYOSHIYUKI KIMURA Natural stilbenes and analogues as ntineoplastic agentsFULVIA ORSINI AND GUIDO SELLO Discoveries of the diels-alderasesAKITAMI ICHIHARA Lipids of membranes: Chemistry, biological role and applications as drug carriersSOPHIA HATZIANTONIOY AND COSTAS DEMETZOSMetabolism of plant hormones cytokinins and their function in signaling, celldifferentiation and plant developmentPETR GALUSZKA, LUKÁŠ SPÍCHAL, DAVID KOPECNÝ,PETR TARKOWSKI, JITKA FRÉBORTOVA, MAREK ŠEBELA AND IVO FRÉBORT (+)-Biotin: A challenge for industrially viable total synthesis of natural productsMASAHIKO SEKI Biotechnology for the production of plant natural productsRAFAEL ZARATE, NABIL EL JABER-VAZDEKIS, ELENA CEQUIER-SÁNCHEZ, FÁTIMA GUTÍERREZ-NICOLÁS AND ÁNGEL G. RAVELORoles of insect and mammal pheromones: Vomeronasal receptorsDANIEL GARCÍA VELÁZQUEZ, JOSÉ J. MARRERO TELLADO AND ANGEL G. RAVELOStilbenoids: Chemistry and bioactivitiesKAI XIAO, HONG-JUN ZHANG, LI-JIANG XUAN, JUAN ZHANG,YA-MING XU AND DONG-LU BAI Tissue culture of medicinal plants: Micropropagation, transformation andproduction of useful secondary metabolitesKAYO YOSHIMATSU Isoquinuclidines: A review of chemical and pharmacological propertiesM.O. FARUK KHAN, MARK S. LEVI, C. RANDALL CLARK,SETH Y. ABLORDEPPEY, SAY-JONG LAW, NORMAN H. WILSON AND RONALD F. BORNE Hyaluronic acid: Its function and degradation in in vivo systemsGRIGORIJ KOGAN, LADISLAV ŠOLTES, ROBERT STERN,JÜRGEN SCHILLER AND RANIERO MENDICHIHigh altitude plants, chemistry of acclimation and adaptationMIGUEL E. ALONSO-AMELOT

About the Author

Atta-ur-Rahman, Professor Emeritus, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research), University of Karachi, Pakistan, was the Pakistan Federal Minister for Science and Technology (2000-2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002), and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and an UNESCO Science Laureate. He is a leading scientist with more than 1283 publications in several fields of organic chemistry.