Natural Products Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine /

Although the natural product drug discovery programs of the large drug companies are now equaled by programs for the high throughput screening of synthetic compounds generated through combinatorial chemistry, natural compounds still hold great promise to overcome such problems as antibiotic resistan...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Zhang, Lixin (Editor), Demain, Arnold L. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Fundamental Issues Related to Natural Product-Based Drug Delivery
  • Natural Products and Drug Discovery
  • Strategies
  • Integrated Approaches for Discovering Novel Drugs From Microbial Natural Products
  • Automated Analyses of HPLC Profiles of Microbial Extracts
  • Manipulating Microbial Metabolites for Drug Discovery and Production
  • Improving Drug Discovery From Microorganisms
  • Developments in Strain Improvement Technology
  • Specific Groups of Drugs
  • The Discovery of Anticancer Drugs From Natural Sources
  • Case Studies in Natural-Product Optimization
  • Terpenoids As Therapeutic Drugs and Pharmaceutical Agents
  • Challenges and Opportunities in the Chinese Herbal Drug Industry
  • Arsenic Trioxide and Leukemia
  • Microbial Diversity
  • New Methods to Access Microbial Diversity for Small Molecule Discovery
  • Accessing the Genomes of Uncultivated Microbes for Novel Natural Products
  • Specific Sources
  • New Natural-Product Diversity From Marine Actinomycetes
  • Novel Natural Products From Rainforest Endophytes
  • Biological, Economic, Ecological, and Legal Aspects of Harvesting Traditional Medicine in Ecuador.