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Article #1758Re: Synthetic drugs vs. plant derived drugs
From: pp000165
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 18:50
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 18:50
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There are many rain forest amphibians and reptiles including venomous snakes that contain important substances needed for medical research and human treatment as well as plants. Destroying habitat not only makes the plants dissapear but insects, amphibians and reptiles --- all of which contain substances of medical importance. There are literally millions of such substances, mostly peptides, that await disocvery and subsequent synthesis. Destroying the forest destroys the potential for making such discoveries. There is a good book which reviews the scientific literature on this subject: Medical Herpetology which can be obtained from the publisher NG Publishing, RD 3, Box 3709A, Pottsville, PA 17901. It is 160 tightly printed pages and costs $19.95. I recommend this book for anyone interested in drugs derived from natural sources, partricularly tropical species. It also includes a review of plant derived compounds used as antidotes for snake venom poisoning.
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