3 Role of natural products in treatment of diseases 4 Antiinfective agents (including
antimalarials) 4.1 Antibacterials: b-lactams 4.2 Antibacterials: aminoglycosides 4.3 …

Several hundred plant and herb species that have potential as novel antiviral agents have
been studied, with surprisingly little overlap. A wide variety of active phytochemicals …

Profound changes are occurring in the strategies that biotechnology-based industries are
deploying in the search for exploitable biology and to discover new products and develop …

Natural products are not only the basis for traditional or ethnic medicine. Only recently, they
have provided highly successful new drugs such as Artemisinin. Furthermore, screening …

Covering: 2000 to 2005 In the search for novel and bioactive molecules for drug discovery,
marine-derived natural resources are becoming an important research area. Over 15 marine …

Sponges are host organisms for various symbiotic microorganisms such as archaea,
bacteria, cyano-bacteria and microalgae. Sponges are also sources of a wide variety of …

In the ocean, seaweed and microorganisms have coexisted since the earliest stages of
evolution and formed an inextricable relationship. Recently, seaweed has attracted …

The development of natural biomaterials is not regarded as a new area of science, but has
existed for centuries. The use of natural products as a biomaterial is currently undergoing a …

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science.
It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with …

The term pharmacognosy as a constituent scientific discipline of pharmacy has been in use
for nearly 200 years, and it refers to studies on natural product drugs. During the last half of …