Venoms to Drugs: Venom as a Source for the Development of Human Therapeutics

1. Gives an overview of the development of drugs from peptides and proteins present in venom.

2. Six drugs derived from venoms have already been approved, and there are many more in development.

3. Medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, poisons experts, toxicologists

4. Issues in Toxicology Series, Toxicology Research, MedChemComm

5. The pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly interested in biologics from animal venoms as a potential source for therapeutic agents in recent years, the different aspects of benefit and risk are discussed in this book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849736634
• ISBN13: 9781849736633
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"