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Mathur, S and Hoskins, C (2017) Drug development: Lessons from nature. Spandidos Publications.
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Abstract
Natural products have been acknowledged for numerous years as a vital source of active ingredients in therapeutic agents. In particular, the use of active ingredients derived from plants for use in microbial natural products have long been used before the dawn of modern medicine. From ancient times, the efficacy of natural products has been associated with the chemistry, biochemistry and synthetic activities of natural products. Thus, with scientific advancement in modern molecular and cellular biology, analytical chemistry and pharmacology, the unique properties of these natural products are being harnessed in order to exploit the chemical and structural diversity and biodiversity of these types of products in relation to their therapeutic effect. Often, new molecules of interest in drug design units focus on the rearrangement of chemical entities or structural isomers of naturally occurring products in order to generate new molecules; these may be formulated into clinically useful therapies.
Item Type: | Other |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | combinatorial chemistry, drug discovery, high throughput screening, natural products, |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2017 15:38 |
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2018 09:02 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/3766 |