Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal Plants and Their Importance in Drug Discovery in Pakistan

• DOI: 10.26480/msp.01.2017.17.26
• Publication Date: 2017-08-08T04:31:20Z
• Authors: Ghulam Mustafa; Rawaba Arif; Asia Atta; Sumaira Sharif; Amer Jamil
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 15. Life on land; 3. Good health

Humans have relied on nature throughout their ages to cater for basic needs including medicines cure a wide spectrum of diseases. Plants formed the basis sophisticated systems traditional medicines. For therapeutic agents many presently known lead compounds are natural products or derivatives. Ethnomedicinal studies play vital role discover new drugs from indigenous medicinal plants. Green pharmaceuticals getting popularity and extraordinary importance because vast opportunities drug discoveries provided by unmatched availability chemical diversity either as pure homogenous plant extracts. Therefore, in recent years demand herbal several variety species is consistently increasing. In spite being an agricultural country having different ecological regions, plants Pakistan not been explored secondary metabolites which responsible treating Although, huge extracts reported activities such antimicrobial, anti-cancerouse, antiviral antioxidant but complete biochemical profiling these lacking. LC-MS GC-MS techniques applied field discovery its success rate very low subject profiling. should be used explore active constituents could future.