Toxins and Drug Discovery

This volume deals mainly with the specialized aspect of toxins and drug discovery. Man has been using natural resources especially plants to treat diseases from very early times in history of mankind. Although many drugs derived from plants and microbes have been discovered and being used in clinica...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cruz, Lourdes J. (Editor), Luo, Sulan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Toxinology,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:This volume deals mainly with the specialized aspect of toxins and drug discovery. Man has been using natural resources especially plants to treat diseases from very early times in history of mankind. Although many drugs derived from plants and microbes have been discovered and being used in clinical practice, not many drugs have been developed from venoms and toxins although many laboratories worldwide are actively working on it. This volume describe some of the recent developments in this research area, such as snake venoms, conotoxins , bioinformatics in drug discovery from peptide toxins.
Physical Description:70 illus., 43 illus. in color. eReference. online resource.
ISBN:9789400764521
ISSN:2542-761X