Plants as a still unexploited source of new drugs

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1307-1315

  Hostettmann, Kurt ^a   Marston, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological screening; Chemical screening; Lead compounds; Metabolism; Plants

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO VANILLINE DERIVATIVE; ARTEETHER; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; BELLIDIFOLIN; BELLIDIFOLIN 8 O GLUCOSIDE; BELLIDIN; BELLIDIN 8 O GLUCOSIDE; BETULIC ACID; CAMPTOTHECIN DERIVATIVE; DOCETAXEL; GALANTAMINE; HUPERZINE A; HYPERICIN; IRINOTECAN; ISOIMPERATORIN; OSTRUTHIN; OSTRUTHOL; OXYPEUCEDANIN; PACLITAXEL; PENTOSALEN; PEUCENIN; PLACEBO; SALICIN; TOPOTECAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIN; VERTEPORFIN; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE; ZT 1;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CAMPTOTHECA; CANCER THERAPY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADOSPORIUM CUCUMERINUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; DEMENTIA; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUNG CANCER; LYCOPODIACEAE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELANOMA; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLITE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NYSSACEAE; OVARY CANCER; PHARMACOPHORE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RECTUM CANCER; TAXUS BREVIFOLIA;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 77953981590     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0800300814     Document Type: Article

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