Chemotherapy herbal products

Herbal Products for the Chemotherapy of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection... [Pg.387]

The following are the herbal products used for chemotherapy of HIV infection ... [Pg.387]

Although the use of bioactive natural products as herbal drug preparations dates back hundreds, even thousands, of years ago, their application as isolated and characterized compounds to modern drug discovery and development only started in the 19th cenmry, the dawn of the chemotherapy era. It has been well documented that natural products played critical roles in modem dmg development, especially for antibacterial and antitumor agents. More importantly, natural products presented scientists with unique chemical stmctures, which are beyond human imagination most of the time, and inspired scientists to pursue new chemical entities with completely different stmctures from known dmgs. [Pg.472]

Ramawat, K.G. and Goyal, S. 2009. Natural products in cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy. In Ramawat, K.G. (ed). Herbal Drugs Ethnomedicine to Modem Medicine. Springer Berlin, Germany. [Pg.393]

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