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Educational and
professional goals:
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Acquisition of knowledge about natural biologically active compounds and their influence on the development of chemotherapy, drug syntheses and rational drug design.
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Course description:
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The lecture topics are the following: a review on main groups of secondary metabolites with distinguished biological activity (glycosides, alkaloids, steroids, terpenes, antibiotics):the most important plant raw materials; modern methods of increasing of selected metabolites content in plant material; alkaloids with strong activity toward nervous system as lead compounds in the search for counterpain drugs; natural substances exhibiting antineoplastic, mutagenic and carcinogenic activity and their influence on advances of chemotherapy; natural anticancer drugs of plant origin; natural compounds as an inspiration in the rational drug design; actual needs for new drugs.
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