Natural Products of Therapeutic Potential
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April 1st 2021
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Lakshmi M
Abstract
Natural Products of Therapeutic Potential The use of herbs for healing and treating diseases precedes recorded human history probably by thousand of years. Over the ensuing millennia, humankind discovered and made use of an enormous range of natural compounds. In earlier research, many natural products helped us to reveal a novel aspect of physiology. For example, digitalis from foxglove showed the role of sodium-potassium ATPase, morphine pointed the way to the receptors a effected by endogenous opioids, muscarine, nicotine and tubocurarine helped explore the different types of acetylcholine receptors and so on.