Anticancer drug discovery from Chinese medicinal herbs
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Drug discovery from medicinal plants.
Current research in drug discovery from medicinal plants involves a multifaceted approach combining botanical, phytochemical, biological, and molecular techniques. Medicinal plant drug discovery continues to provide new and important leads against various pharmacological targets including cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer's, malaria, and pain. Several natural product drugs of plant origin have either...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chinese Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1749-8546
DOI: 10.1186/s13020-018-0192-y