**Author details**

 Juan Carlos Castro1 \*, Joseph Dylan Maddox2,3, Marianela Cobos4 , Jae Diana Paredes4 , Anthony Jhoao Fasabi1 , Gabriel Vargas-Arana5,6, Jorge Luis Marapara1 , Pedro Marcelino Adrianzen1 , María Zadith Casuso4 and Segundo Levi Estela4

1 Specialized Unit of Biotechnology, Research Center of Natural Resources of the Amazon (CIRNA), National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP), Iquitos, Peru

2 Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA

3 Environmental Sciences, American Public University System, Charles Town, WV, USA

4 Laboratory of Biotechnology and Bioenergetics, Scientific University of Peru (UCP), Iquitos, Peru

5 Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry, Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru

6 Peruvian University of the East (UPO), Iquitos, Peru

\*Address all correspondence to: juan.castro@unapiquitos.edu.pe

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*Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon: Bioactive Phytochemicals, Mechanisms of Action… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82461* 
