Zhang Lixin, Demain Arnold L. (ed.) Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine

Totowa, NJ.: Humana Press Inc. 2005. — 382 p.Fundamental Issues Related to Natural Product-based Drug Delivery
Natural Products and Drug Discovery. Arnold L. Demain and Lixin Zhang
Strategies
Integrated Approaches for Discovering Novel Drugs From Microbial Natural Products. Lixin Zhang
Automated Analyses of Hplc profiles of Microbial Extracts: A new Tool for Drug Discovery Screening. José R. Tormo and Juan B. García Manipulating Microbial Metabolites for Drug Discovery and Production. C. Richard Hutchinson
Improving Drug Discovery From Microorganisms. Chris M. Farnet and Emmanuel Zazopoulos
6 Developments in Strain Improvement Technology: Evolutionary Engineering of Industrial Microorganisms Through Gene, Pathway, and Genome Shuffling. Stephen B. del Cardayré
Specific Groups of Drugs
The Discovery of Anticancer Drugs From Natural Sources. David J. Newman and Gordon M. Cragg
Case Studies in Natural-Product Optimization: Novel Antitumor Agents Derived From Taxus brevifolia and Catharanthus roseus. Jian Hong and Shu-Hui Chen
Terpenoids As Therapeutic Drugs and Pharmaceutical Agents. Guangyi Wang, Weiping Tang, and Robert R. Bidigare
Arsenic Trioxide and Leukemia: From Bedside to Bench. Guo-Qiang Chen, Qiong Wang, Hua Yan, and Zhu Chen
Microbial Diversity
New Methods to Access Microbial Diversity for Small Molecule Discovery. Karsten Zengler, Ashish Paradkar, and Martin Keller
Accessing the Genomes of Uncultivated Microbes for Novel Natural Products. Asuncion Martinez, Joern Hopke, Ian A. MacNeil, and Marcia S. Osburne
Specific Sources
New Natural-Product Diversity From Marine Actinomycetes. Paul R. Jensen and William Fenical
Novel Natural Products From Rainforest Endophytes. Gary Strobel, Bryn Daisy, and Uvidelio Castillo
Biological, Economic, Ecological, and Legal Aspects of Harvesting Traditional Medicine in Ecuador. Alexandra Guevara-Aguirre and Ximena Chiriboga