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Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine
Lixin Zhang
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Description for Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine
Hardcover. An examination of the past successes of natural products as medicines and their future from both conventional and new technologies. This work shows how research and development trends in the pharmaceutical industry can advance to include both synthetic compounds and natural products, and how this paradigm shift can be productive and efficacious. Num Pages: 386 pages, 184 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MMG; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1012.
A fresh examination of the past successes of natural products as medicines and their new future from both conventional and new technologies. High-performance liquid chromatography profiling, combinatorial synthesis, genomics, proteomics, DNA shuffling, bioinformatics, and genetic manipulation all now make it possible to rapidly evaluate the activities of extracts as well as purified components derived from microbes, plants, and marine organisms. The authors apply these methods to new natural product drug discoveries, to microbial diversity, to specific groups of products (Chinese herbal drugs, antitumor drugs from microbes and plants, terpenoids, and arsenic compounds), and to specific sources (the sea, rainforest, and ... Read more
A fresh examination of the past successes of natural products as medicines and their new future from both conventional and new technologies. High-performance liquid chromatography profiling, combinatorial synthesis, genomics, proteomics, DNA shuffling, bioinformatics, and genetic manipulation all now make it possible to rapidly evaluate the activities of extracts as well as purified components derived from microbes, plants, and marine organisms. The authors apply these methods to new natural product drug discoveries, to microbial diversity, to specific groups of products (Chinese herbal drugs, antitumor drugs from microbes and plants, terpenoids, and arsenic compounds), and to specific sources (the sea, rainforest, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Humana Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9781588293831
SKU
V9781588293831
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine
From the reviews: "Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine timely shares the experience of renowned scientist from academy and industry working in the field. … a very comprehensive tool that will help everybody interested in the discovery of natural products. I highly recommend this book for those who want to understand the potential of ... Read more