Myxobacteria: natural pharmaceutical factories

Myxobacteria: natural pharmaceutical factories

Myxobacteria are amongst the top producers of natural products. The diversity and unique structural properties of their secondary metabolites is what make these social microbes highly attractive for drug discovery. Screening of products derived from these bacteria has revealed a puzzling amount of hits against infectious and non-infectious human diseases. Preying mainly on other bacteria and fu...

Plants as factories for the Production of Pharmaceutical recombinant proteins

Nowadays, transgenic plants are used as an attractive alternative to produce recombinant pharmaceutical proteins. Recombinant proteins such as vaccines and antibodies can be produced in plants via two systemes: stable genetic transformation and transient expression. Stable transformation is included of integrating a gene into the plant nuclear or chloroplast genome. The transient expression can...

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Natural Compounds from Myxobacteria

Natural Surfactants for Pharmaceutical Emulsions

Nanodrugs and Natural Pharmaceutical Products

To consider the application of naturally occurring materials in novel drug delivery systems and advancements of nanotech-nology in formulating natural pharmaceutical products. Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (AJUMS) officiated as host to the second nanodrugs congress on March 2012, which was held by nanotechnology research center of AJUMS in cooperation with Shahid Chamran University...