Natural Compounds as Drugs Volume II /

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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Bibliographic Details
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 ; 66
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Activation of fungal silent gene clusters: A new avenue to drug discovery
  • Total synthesis studies on macrocyclic pipecolic acid natural products: FK506, the antascomicins and rapamycin
  • Application of natural product-inspired diversity-oriented synthesis to drug discovery
  • Cheminformatics analysis of natural products: Lessons from nature inspiring the design of new drugs
  • Chemical-genetic approaches for exploring the mode of action of natural products
  • Epothilones as lead structures for new anticancer drugs — pharmacology, fermentation, and structure-activity-relationships
  • Histone deacetylase inhibitors from microorganisms: the Astellas experience
  • Ascomycete derivative to MS therapeutic: S1P receptor modulator FTY720
  • Artemisinin — an innovative cornerstone for anti-malaria therapy.