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Human Medicinal Agents from Plants
Abstract
The natural world once served as the source of all medicinal agents, with higher plants constituting by far the principal sources of these. Today, higher plants continue to retain their historical significance as important sources of novel compounds useful directly as medicinal agents, as model compounds for synthetic or semisynthetic structure modifications and optimization, as biochemical and/or pharmacological probes, and as sources of inspiration for generations of synthetic organic medicinal chemists. Plant-derived compounds which have recently undergone development include the anticancer agents, taxol and camptothecin, the Chinese antimalarial drug, artemisinin, and the East Indian Ayurvedic drug, forskolin. These and many other examples serve to illustrate the continuing value of plant-derived secondary metabolites as viable compounds for modern drug development.
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- Venue
- ACS Symposium Series
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Published
- 1993-05-05
- ISSN
- 0097-6156 (ISSN-L)
- 1947-5918
- OpenAlex
- W2199940260
- Cited by
- 367
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 28.46
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- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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