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Recent Advances in Developing Insect Natural Products as Potential Modern Day Medicines
Joint Authors
Ratcliffe, Norman
Azambuja, Patricia
Mello, Cicero Brasileiro
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-21, 21 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-05-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Except for honey as food, and silk for clothing and pollination of plants, people give little thought to the benefits of insects in their lives.
This overview briefly describes significant recent advances in developing insect natural products as potential new medicinal drugs.
This is an exciting and rapidly expanding new field since insects are hugely variable and have utilised an enormous range of natural products to survive environmental perturbations for 100s of millions of years.
There is thus a treasure chest of untapped resources waiting to be discovered.
Insects products, such as silk and honey, have already been utilised for thousands of years, and extracts of insects have been produced for use in Folk Medicine around the world, but only with the development of modern molecular and biochemical techniques has it become feasible to manipulate and bioengineer insect natural products into modern medicines.
Utilising knowledge gleaned from Insect Folk Medicines, this review describes modern research into bioengineering honey and venom from bees, silk, cantharidin, antimicrobial peptides, and maggot secretions and anticoagulants from blood-sucking insects into medicines.
Problems and solutions encountered in these endeavours are described and indicate that the future is bright for new insect derived pharmaceuticals treatments and medicines.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ratcliffe, Norman& Azambuja, Patricia& Mello, Cicero Brasileiro. 2014. Recent Advances in Developing Insect Natural Products as Potential Modern Day Medicines. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-21.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ratcliffe, Norman…[et al.]. Recent Advances in Developing Insect Natural Products as Potential Modern Day Medicines. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-21.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Ratcliffe, Norman& Azambuja, Patricia& Mello, Cicero Brasileiro. Recent Advances in Developing Insect Natural Products as Potential Modern Day Medicines. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1020392
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1020392