chapter 1 An Introduction and Overview / chapter 2 Detection and Isolation of Bioactive Natural Products / chapter 3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Strategies for Structural Determination / chapter 4 Quantitative NMR of Bioactive Natural Products / chapter 5 Development and Application of LC-NMR Techniques to the Identifi cation of Bioactive Natural Products / chapter 6 Determination of the Absolute Confi guration of Bioactive Natural Products Using Exciton Chirality Circular Dichroism / chapter 7 Separation of Enantiomeric Mixtures of Alkaloids and Their Biological Evaluation / chapter 8 Dereplication and Discovery of Natural Products by UV Spectroscopy / chapter 9 Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry in Natural Product Research / chapter 10 Application of High-Speed Countercurrent Chromatography to the Isolation of Bioactive Natural Products / chapter 11 Biosensing Approach in Natural Product Research / chapter 12 Anticancer Drug Discovery and Development from Natural Products / chapter 13 Sourcing Natural Products from Endophytic Microbes / chapter 14 Isolation of Bioactive Natural Products from Myxobacteria / chapter 15 Naturally Occurring Glycosidase Inhibitors / chapter 16 Bioassay-Directed Isolation and Identifi cation of Antiafl atoxigenic Constituents of Walnuts / chapter 17 Bioactive Peptides in Hen Eggs / chapter 18 Biological Fingerprinting Analysis: Strategy for Screening Bioactive Compounds in Traditional Chinese Medicines / chapter 19 Antimalarial Compounds from Traditionally Used Medicinal Plants / chapter 20 Germination Stimulant in Smoke: Isolation and Identifi cation / chapter 21 Plant-Associated Toxins: Bioactivity-Guided Isolation, ELISA, and LC-MS Detection