Natural products
Subtitle: drug discovery and therapeutic medicine
By: edited by Lixin Zhang, Arnold L. Demain.
Contributors: Zhang, Lixin, Ph. D.; Demain, A. L. 1927-
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Pharmacognosy; Drug Design; Pharmacognosy; Biological Factors -- therapeutic use; Biological Products -- therapeutic use; Pharmacogenetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural products and drug discovery / Arnold L. Demain and Lixin Zhang; title: Integrated approaches for discovering novel drugs from microbial natural products / Lixin Zhang; title: Automated analyses of HPLC profiles of microbial extracts: a new tool for drug discovery screening / Jose R. Tormo and Juan B. Garcia; title: Manipulating microbial metabolites for drug discovery and production / C. Richard Hutchinson; title: Improving drug discovery from microorganisms / Chris M. Farnet and Emmanuel Zazopoulos; title: Developments in strain improvement technology: evolutionary engineering of industrial microorganisms through gene, pathway, and genome shuffling / Stephen B. del Cardayr; title: The discovery of anticancer drugs from natural sources / David J. Newman and Gordon M. Cragg; title: Case studies in natural product optimization: novel antitumor agents derived from taxus brevifolia and catharanthus roseus / Jian Hong and Shu-Hui Chen; title: Terpenoids as therapeutic drugs and pharmaceutical agents / Guangyi Wang, Weiping Tang and Robert R. Bidigare; title: Challenges and opportunities in the Chinese herbal drug industry / Wei Jia and Lixin Zhang; title: Arsenic trioxide and leukemia: from bedside to bench / Guo-Qiang Chen ... [et al.]; title: New methods to access microbial diversity for small molecule discovery / Karsten Zengler, Ashish Paradkar, and Martin Keller; title: Accessing the genomes of uncultivated microbes for novel natural products / Asuncion Martinez ... [et al.]; title: New natural product diversity from marine actinomycetes / Paul R. Jensen and William Fenical; title: Novel natural products from rainforest endophytes / Gary Strobel, Bryn Daisy, and Uvidelio Castillo; title: Biological, economic, ecological, and legal aspects of harvesting traditional medicine in Ecuador / Alexandra Guevara-Aguirre and Ximena Chiriboga.