Marine Natural Products (PHG402)
This course enables the student to understand the importance of marines life and marines natural products, describe and deal with: the composition and bioactivity of sea water, the marine ecosystem and classification of major phyla of marine organisms; the importance of marine drugs as leads for novel pharmaceuticals; the chemistry, bioactivity and/ or toxicity of metabolites derived from marine organisms (specially algae, invertebrates and microorganisms); as well as, the techniques adopted for drug-development from marine resources.
Chemistry of Natural Products (2) (PHG322)
Chemistry of Natural Products (1) (PHG221)
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This module aims at the study of the chemistry of different classes of bioactive raw material (carbohydrates, different types of glycosides (cardiac, anthraquinones , flavonoids, tannins …), miscellaneous terpenoids, bitters), their structures, methods of isolation, identification, and determination, together with their biosynthetic pathway, besides their pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses and how to serve the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food industries in Egypt. |