Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development
contains the proceedings from the Phytochemical Society of Europe's very
successful symposium on this topic, held August 24-27, 1997 in Uppsala,
Sweden.
In this volume, leading academic and industrial scientists discuss novel
methods for assaying natural products to find new structure-activity
relationships. Of key importance in this process is the availability and
reliability of specific bioassay methods, but chapters also discuss
chemical and biological diversity and how to dereplicate natural product
extracts to increase efficiency in lead discovery.
Anti-tumor, HIV-inhibitory, antiprotozoal, anti-infective and
immunomodulatory natural products are discussed. Various industrial
projects are presented for the first time.
This volume bridges the gap between academic and industrial research and
scientists, and should be required reading in drug companies and
faculties of pharmacy, as well as serving scientists in pharmacognosy,
pharmacology, phytochemistry, natural products and drug discovery.