Bioprospecting: A CAM frontier

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Cooper, Edwin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AVAROL; AVARONE; CYTARABINE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER INHIBITION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERBAL MEDICINE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOLECULE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS INHIBITION;

EID: 24344492287     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/neh062     Document Type: Editorial

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