Handbook on Drugs from Natural Sources

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Natural products have played an important role throughout the world in treating and preventing human diseases. Natural product medicines have come from various materials including terrestrial plants, terrestrial microorganisms, organisms etc. Historical experiences with plants as therapeutic tools have helped to introduce single chemical entries in modern medicine.

About 40% of the drugs used are derived from natural sources. Most are pure substances which are isolated from various organisms and used directly or after chemical modification.

This book contains development of new drugs from plants, work on some Thai medicinal plants, plant growth based on Jasmonates, marine sterols, bleomycin and its derivatives, drugs from cannabinoids, bioactive compounds from nature, fungi and higher plants, biological active compounds from British Marine, Microbial phytotoxins as herbicides and many more. This book will be very helpful to its readers, upcoming entrepreneurs, scientists, existing industries, technical institutions, druggist etc.

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Title
Handbook on Drugs from Natural Sources
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8178330617
Length
viii+472p.,
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