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Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy--their role for anti-cancer drug development.

Current drug targets - 1 Mar 2006

Heinrich Michael, Bremner Paul

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Local and traditional knowledge has been the starting point for many successful drug development projects over the last decades. Here we discuss some examples of anti-cancer drugs which have had enormous impact as anti-cancer agents (camptothecan, taxol and derivatives) and a few examples of drugs currently under various stages of preclinical development. Ethnobotanists investigate the relationship between humans...

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PMID: 16515525
DOI: 10.2174/138945006776054988

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