Lead Molecules from Natural Products

Discovery and New Trends

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Hardbound, 448 Pages
Published: JUL-2006
ISBN 10: 0-444-51619-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-444-51619-0
Imprint: ELSEVIER


Edited by
Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan, International Center for Chemical Sciences, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Arjumand Ather, The Norwegian Structural Biology Centre, University of Tromso, Norway

Description
Lead Molecules from Natural Products: Discovery and New Trends provides the reader with a thorough overview of current discoveries and trends in Natural Products research. This book consists of 22 chapters from well known scientists all over the world, with topics ranging from Natural Product Chemistry and Phytochemistry in their most basic form, to Molecular Biology and in silico drug design. Contributors describe their own laboratory experiences, revealing their findings, the legal issues encountered. The chapters, all of equally high quality, summarize years of extensive research in each area, and provide insight in the new themes of natural product research. The information will help to predict promising leads, useful for physicians in the treatment of different diseases and disease manifestations.

Included in series
Advances in Phytomedicine

Audience:
Phytochemists; Combinatorial Chemists; Pharmacologists; Scientists engaged in Drug discovery and development; Industrial research groups developing drugs from plants; Departments of pharmaceutics; Institutes for Drug Research; Pharmaceutical companies; Manufacturers of herbal and ayurvedic medicines and cosmetic productsManufacturers of natural products


 
Last update: 5 Nov 2011