Natural Compounds as Drugs, Volume I

The use of drug substances derived from plants, fungi, bacteria, and marine organisms has a long tradition in medicine. Together with their derivatives, and synthetic compounds deduced from natural product precursors, they represent a major part of today's pharmaceutical market. Within the fast...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Petersen, Frank (Editor ), Amstutz, René (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Progress in Drug Research, 65
Temas:
Pharmacology.
Biochemistry.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mother Nature's gifts to diseases of man: the impact of natural products on anti-infective, anticholestemics and anticancer drug discovery
  • Drug discovery and development with plant-derived compounds
  • Evolutionary mechanisms underlying secondary metabolite diversity
  • Biodiversity, chemical diversity and drug discovery
  • High impact technologies for natural products screening
  • Virtual screening for the discovery of bioactive natural products
  • Strain improvement for production of pharmaceuticals and other microbial metabolites by fermentation
  • Nutritional and engineering aspects of microbial process development
  • Natural products from plant cell cultures.

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