Animal health drugs

Raymond, V. and Sattelle, D.B., Novel animal-health drug targets from ligand-gated chloride channels, Nat. Rev. Drug Discov., 6,427, 2002. 

Whilst santonin was not primarily an Animal Health drug, it is a natural product with anthelmintic properties and, as we shall see later, today s antiparasitic market is dominated by a single class of natural products. Although since then, plant metabolites have played a commercial role, the major impact has been made by microbial natural products. 

In this last section, I would like to give you some personal thoughts on the future of natural products as animal health drugs. There are three main questions I would like to address ... 

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