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Author Mandal, Shikha, author.

Title Extremophilic cyanobacteria for novel drug development / Sikha Mandal, Jnanendra Rath
Published Cham : Springer, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development, 1864-8118
SpringerBriefs in pharmaceutical science & drug development.
Contents 1 Introduction -- 2 Secondary Metabolites of Cyanobacteria and Drug Development -- 3 Glycoconjugates of Cyanobacteria and Potential Drug Development from them -- 4 Anticancer Drug Development from Cyanobacteria -- 5 Issues and Challenges of Drug Development from Cyanobacteria
Summary This volume presents recent developments in the novel drug development and potential of extremophilic cyanobacteria. It discusses how these tiny organism originated, produce oxygen that leads to evolution of life on the earth, how their survival strategies in extreme climatic conditions lead to diverse metabolic pathways, and the opportunity to use them to develop novel drugs. The book is comprised of five chapters, starting with the origin of cyanobacteria, their survival strategies under extreme conditions, and their capabilities to change metabolic activities. The second chapter explores the different metabolic pathways found in cyanobacteria and examines advances in this field and recent techniques like MALDI-TOF imaging and metagenomics tools as well as in silico techniques for rapid screening of secondary metabolites. Further chapters cover the glycomics of cyanobacteria, anticancer drug development, and some issues and challenges of using cyanobacteria to develop drugs. Extremophilic Cyanobacteria For Novel Drug Development provides insight into future perspectives in drug development and is a key resource for students, researchers and professionals in pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, pharmacognosy biotechnology, biology, and academics
Analysis biomedische wetenschappen
biomedicine
farmacologie
pharmacology
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
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Subject Cyanobacteria -- Therapeutic use
Drug development.
Pharmaceutical microbiology.
Extreme environments -- Microbiology.
Microbial metabolites.
Cyanobacteria -- drug effects
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Drug development
Extreme environments -- Microbiology
Microbial metabolites
Pharmaceutical microbiology
Form Electronic book
Author Rath, Jnanendra, author.
ISBN 9783319120096
3319120093
3319120085
9783319120089