title: Drugs from the sea--fact or fantasy?
abstract: Drugs from the sea are as much a potential marine resource as cultivated fish, and mineral deposits. The study of the chemical structure and properties of unusual metabolic products of marine life is a subject where marine ecology and the experimental sciences of chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology and medicine share a common and complementary interest. The development of ad hoc collaboration between specialists has advanced basic knowledge and resulted in a significant feedback to marine biology and ecology as well as in the development of some useful drugs.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000032:analysis; D008386:Marine Biology; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000032:analysis; D011453:Prostaglandins / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014871:Water Microbiology / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D008387:Marine Toxins; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011453:Prostaglandins