作者: Sherif S. Ebada , Peter Proksch
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19382-8_7
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摘要: Marine ecosystems show remarkable chemical, biological, and ecological diversities which have inspired marine natural product chemists for many years to identify novel chemical entities possessing potent pharmacological activities that could be eventually developed into therapeutics human diseases such as cancer, analgesia, microbial infections, allergy, immune diseases. By 1974, cytarabine (Ara-C, Cytosar-U®) vidarabine (Ara-A, Vira-A®) were the first two marine-derived pharmaceuticals in US pharmacopeia treat Since then, it took more than three further decades introduce next drugs namely ω-conotoxin MVIIA (ziconotide, Prialt®), was approved December 2004 an analgesic against severe chronic pain, ecteinascidin (ET-743, Yondelis®) October 2007 treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcomas, drug market. In addition other products are presently either clinical or preclinical trial phases.