Drug discovery is a challenging field. It involves team work of several experts including medicinal chemists, natural chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, clinicians etc to generate a safe and biologically active drug. In the drug discovery programme, medicinal plants play a key role and are a source of novel molecules. The knowledge of folk medicine and ethnopharmacological studies of plants play a significant role in the development of primary screening methods in drug discovery.Enzymes are the targets for many drugs because of the simplicity of enzyme based assays. It involves...
Drug discovery is a challenging field. It involves team work of several experts including medicinal chemists, natural chemists, pharmacologists, tox...