Natural Compounds as Drugs, Volume I
Amstutz, René / Petersen, Frank
The use of drug substances derived from plants, fungi, bacteria, and marine organisms has a long tradition in medicine. Together with their derivatives, and synthetic compounds deduced from natural product precursors, they represent a major part of today's pharmaceutical market.
Within the fast developing discipline of molecular biology, natural products also play an important role as tool compounds in pathway screening and validation of targ...