ENVS 3040 Study Guide - Final Guide: Drug Discovery, Ecosystem Diversity, Herbivore
21 May 2017
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A key motivation in searching for active compounds is the potential discovery of compounds that have a new mode of action, not seen or made use of before in pharmacology. Compounds with novel modes of action might be more effective than compounds currently used to treat particular diseases, have fewer side effects, and/or be suitable for diseases that currently have no effective pharmaceutical treatments. Four main approaches to collecting plants for new drug discoveries. Phylogenetic plants are selected for investigation because they are related to plants already known to produce useful compounds: this approach has a higher probability than the random approach of identifying possible drugs. The article ethnobotany as a pharmacological research tool and recent developments in. Cns-active natural products from ethnobotanical sources , by mcclatchey and colleagues (2009), explores how ethnobotanists gather information about plants and the uses to which plants have been put by traditional societies. It includes the study of plants that have therapeutic applications.
