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The discovery of natural products with therapeutic potential / editor, Vincent P. Gullo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gullo, Vincent Philip, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Biotechnology (Reading, Mass.) ; 26.
- Biotechnology series ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmacognosy.
- Natural products--Therapeutic use.
- Natural products.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, [1994]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Although science has discovered effective drugs for many of the diseases that afflict mankind, many human health problems remain untreatable. The search for novel therapeutic agents is always ongoing. This book will describe some of the diverse sources of natural products, such as terrestrial and marine environments; and will review how research has increased knowledge of biological systems and human disease, leading to the design of targeted assays, amenable to high volume screening.
- Contents:
- part I. The source of chemical diversity
- part II. New targets for screening assays
- part III. Isolation and structure determination of natural products.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4832-9213-4
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