Medicinal Natural Products A Biosynthetic Approach

• Main Author: Dewick, Paul M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York John Wiley 2001
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Pharmacognosy; Biological products; Biological factors > Biosynthesis
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• Physical Description: xii, 507 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0471496405; 0471496413

Medicinal Natural Products, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide providing information on all classes of natural products in medicine. It builds upon fundamental chemical principles and demonstrates a unique integration of plant, microbial and animal natural products in one volume. The text guides the reader through a wealth of diverse natural metabolites used in medicine with sources, production methods, use as drugs and modes of action all extensively covered. Taking a chemistry based approach it combines traditional pharmacognosy with medicinal chemistry. The structure is user-friendly and includes the acclaimed grey boxes on groups of products and detailed mechanistic explanations. * Adopts a novel biosynthetic theme rather than a traditional descriptive approach * Includes extensive further reading at the end of the chapter * Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate comprehensive coverage of plant, microbial and animal products * Includes the latest developments in the field * New material on genetic manipulation of biosynthetic pathways and non-mevalonate pathway to terpanoids * User-friendly format including extensive use of chemical schemes with annotated mechanistic explanations