Natural products: an evolving role in future drug discovery

BB Mishra, VK Tiwari - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
The therapeutic areas of infectious diseases and oncology have benefited from abundant
scaffold diversity in natural products, able to interact with many specific targets within the cell …

Natural products to drugs: natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials

MS Butler - Natural product reports, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 to 2007 Natural product and natural product-derived compounds that are
being evaluated in clinical trials or are in registration (as at 31st December 2007) have been …

Antibacterial agents

JDC Yao, RC Moellering Jr - Manual of clinical microbiology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial chemotherapy has played a vital role in the treatment of human infectious
diseases since the discovery of penicillin in the 1920s. Hundreds of antimicrobial agents …

Rapid cytolysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by faropenem, an orally bioavailable β-lactam antibiotic

N Dhar, V Dubée, L Ballell, G Cuinet… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent clinical studies indicate that meropenem, a β-lactam antibiotic, is a promising
candidate for therapy of drug-resistant tuberculosis. However, meropenem is chemically …

Epileptogenic potential of carbapenem agents: mechanism of action, seizure rates, and clinical considerations

AD Miller, AM Ball, PB Bookstaver… - … : The Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobials are the most frequently implicated class of drugs in drug‐induced seizure,
with β‐lactams being the class of antimicrobials most often implicated. The seizure‐inducing …

Natural products as lead compounds in drug discovery

J Khazir, BA Mir, SA Mir, D Cowan - 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This review surveys the diversity of natural products (NPs) derived from terrestrial plants,
micro-organisms, marine organisms and fungi used in the treatment of various diseases. A …

Natural products in drug discovery: impacts and opportunities—an assessment

G Brahmachari - … natural products: opportunities and challenges in …, 2012 - World Scientific
Nature stands as an inexhaustible source of novel chemotypes and pharmacophores, and
has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive number of …

A faropenem, linezolid, and moxifloxacin regimen for both drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children: FLAME path on the Milky Way

D Deshpande, S Srivastava… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. The regimen of linezolid and moxifloxacin was found to be efficacious in the
hollow fiber system model of pediatric intracellular tuberculosis. However, its kill rate was …

Faropenem consumption is increasing in India

S Gandra, EY Klein, S Pant… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Our experience during the years 2013 and 2014 mirrors their findings regarding this existing
risk for measles infection among travelers. Our Travel Clinic (TC) is a specialized service …

β‐Lactam antibiotics

SA Testero, JF Fisher… - … medicinal chemistry and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The β‐lactam classes of antibacterials are preeminent in the treatment of bacterial infection
due to their unparalleled clinical efficacy and clinical safety. Following the discovery of the …