Medicinal products: regulation of biosynthesis in space and time
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
;
95(1): 115-20, Jan.-Feb. 2000. ilus, graf
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in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-251323
ABSTRACT
We live in a "Demon-Haunted World". Human health care requires the ever increasing resistance of pathogens to be confronted by a correspondingly fast rate of discovery of novel antibiotics. One of the possible strategies towards this objective involves the rational localization of bioactive phytochemicals. The conceptual basis of the method consists in the surprisingly little known gearings of natural products with morphology, ecology and evolution of their plant source, i. e. an introspection into the general mechanisms of nature.
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Main subject:
Plants, Medicinal
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Biological Products
Language:
English
Journal:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Journal subject:
Tropical Medicine
/
Parasitology
Year:
2000
Type:
Article
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