Natural Compounds as Drugs Volume I

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Petersen, Frank (Editor), Amstutz, René (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Progress in Drug Research ; 65
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general.

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...