Plant-derived natural products as leads for drug discovery

Plant-derived Natural Products: Synthesis, Function, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 547-567

  Pan, Li ^a   De Blanco, Esperanza J Carcache ^a   Kinghorn, A Douglas ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-85498-4_24     Document Type: Chapter

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