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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.