An inside to the better understanding of the ethnobotanical route to drug discovery- The need of the hour

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1551-1554

  Mandal, Vivekananda ^a   Gopal, Velmani ^b   Mandal, Subhash C ^b  

^a GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Drug discovery; Ethnobotanical; Ethnomedicine; NAPRALERT; Plant

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; VINCRISTINE;

AYURVEDA; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOBOTANY; FRACTIONATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLITE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84869776950     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1200701134     Document Type: Review

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