Compulsory / Teaching hours per week: 5/ Assessment:final examination at the end of the semester / Credits: 6
V. Roussis, Professor
Ι. Chinou, Professor
P. Magiatis, Assoc. Professor
• IntroductiontoPharmacognosy. Sources, selection, methods of treatment and processing, conservation and storage of botanical drugs. Ecological roles and variation of secondary metabolites in natural sources.
• Primarymetabolites
Carbohydrates: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides
Lipids: fats and oils,waxes, alkynes
Enzymes
• Secondary metabolites
Phenolics, shikimates, aceticderivatives:
Shikimates – phenylpropanederivatives: phenols, phenolicacids, coumarins, lignans, neolignans, flavonoids, anthocyanins, tannins, quinones, orcinolsandphloroglucinols. Herba sources containing the previous referred secondary metabolites