**Meet the editor**

Dr Varaprasad Bobbarala is working as a senior researcher at Adhya Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Science, Andhra University, in 2008. He specialized in biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and microbiology. Dr Varaprasad has published outstanding articles on alternatives to antimicrobials,

medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery. He currently serves as editor, associate editor, and peer reviewer for several international journals. He has published more than 90 papers and several book chapters on microbiology, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry. His recent research has also focused on drug discovery, bioefficacy studies, and isolation of bioactive metabolites from natural resources.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Charles J. Malemud

Ramachandra Reddy

**Compounds 145** Domokos Gerő

Chapter 5 **Medicinal Plants of West Godavari 101**

Chapter 1 **In Vitro Biotransformation in Drug Discovery 1**

Chapter 2 **On the Organization of a Drug Discovery Platform 15** Jean A. Boutin, Olivier Nosjean and Gilles Ferry

Chapter 3 **Drug Treatment of Obesity: From Bench to Bedside 53**

Chapter 4 **Pharmacologic Interventions for Preventing Chondrocyte**

Sudhakar Pola and Venkata Narasimha Kadali

Chapter 7 **Cell-Based Screening to Identify Cytoprotective**

**Mining of Available Genomes 165**

Chapter 6 **Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) 131**

Chapter 8 **Bioinformatics Discovery of Vertebrate Cathelicidins from the**

Selvan Ravindran, Rutuja Rokade, Jitendra K. Suthar, Pooja Singh, Pooja Deshpande, Rajeshree Khambadkar and Srushti Utekar

Jelena Jakab, Robert Smolić, Aleksandar Včev and Martina Smolić

Desam Nagarjuna Reddy, Abdul Jabbar Al-Rajab and Gowkanapalli

José Manuel Pérez de la Lastra, Cristina Garrido-Orduña, Andrés A. Borges, David Jiménez-Arias, Francisco Javier García-Machado, Mercedes Hernández, Concepción González and Alicia Boto

**Apoptosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis 77**
