Recent advances in screening of natural products for antimicrobial agents

Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 306-315

  Zhou, Meng ^a   Luo, Hao ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Huang, Canhua ^a   Ding, Zhenyu ^a   Li, Rui ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial drugs; Antimicrobial targets; Natural products; Screening methods

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; NATURAL PRODUCT; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE;

AGAR DILUTION; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNGI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOSES;

EID: 84863291740     PISSN: 13862073     EISSN: 18755402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138620712799361861     Document Type: Review

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