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Review
. 2011 Oct;6(10):1549-58.

Drugs from the cloudforest: the search for new medicines from Monteverde, Costa Rica

William N Setzer  1
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Review

Drugs from the cloudforest: the search for new medicines from Monteverde, Costa Rica

William N Setzer. Nat Prod Commun. 2011 Oct.

Abstract

The University of Alabama in Huntsville Natural Products Research Group has been investigating the phytopharmaceutical potential of tropical rainforest higher plants from the Monteverde region of northwestern Costa Rica for the past twenty years. The group has focused primarily on anticancer agents, antimicrobial agents, and antiparasitic agents. This review presents an overview of some of our efforts in natural products drug discovery from Monteverde, Costa Rica.

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