Drug development : lessons from nature (review)
Mather, Sunil and Hoskins, Clare (2016) Drug development : lessons from nature (review). Biomedical Reports, 6 (6). pp. 612-614. (https://doi.org/10.3892/br.2017.909)
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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.
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Mather, Sunil and Hoskins, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-0566;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 70617 Dates: DateEvent14 December 2016Published14 December 2016AcceptedSubjects: Science > Chemistry
Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medicaDepartment: Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 21 Nov 2019 16:22 Last modified: 29 Aug 2024 00:52 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70617