Langbeschreibung
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.
Hauptbeschreibung
"The use of 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.