Download or read book Natural Compounds as Drugs, Volume II written by Frank Petersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of substances derived from plants, fungi, bacteria and marine organisms has a long tradition in medicine. This book highlights the biodiversity-driven approaches which are now of eminent importance in natural products research. It addresses the question why natural products display such a complex chemical information, what makes them often unique and what their characteristics are. A compilation of current applicable technology makes this a brilliant reference work.