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| Title |
A Historical Overview of Natural Products in Drug Discovery
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Metabolites, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.3390/metabo2020303 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel A. Dias, Sylvia Urban, Ute Roessner |
| Abstract |
Historically, natural products have been used since ancient times and in folklore for the treatment of many diseases and illnesses. Classical natural product chemistry methodologies enabled a vast array of bioactive secondary metabolites from terrestrial and marine sources to be discovered. Many of these natural products have gone on to become current drug candidates. This brief review aims to highlight historically significant bioactive marine and terrestrial natural products, their use in folklore and dereplication techniques to rapidly facilitate their discovery. Furthermore a discussion of how natural product chemistry has resulted in the identification of many drug candidates; the application of advanced hyphenated spectroscopic techniques to aid in their discovery, the future of natural product chemistry and finally adopting metabolomic profiling and dereplication approaches for the comprehensive study of natural product extracts will be discussed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 24 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Hungary | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 75% |
| Scientists | 3 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 3,440 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 6 | <1% |
| Mexico | 5 | <1% |
| India | 5 | <1% |
| Germany | 4 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 3 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Pakistan | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 12 | <1% |
| Unknown | 3395 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 596 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 543 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 490 | 14% |
| Researcher | 268 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 154 | 4% |
| Other | 468 | 14% |
| Unknown | 921 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 819 | 24% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 439 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 416 | 12% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 290 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 86 | 3% |
| Other | 344 | 10% |
| Unknown | 1046 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2024.
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