title: Drugs from the cloudforest: the search for new medicines from Monteverde, Costa Rica.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA. wsetzer@chemistry.uah.edu
authors.forename: William N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Setzer
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003364:Costa Rica; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*; D014197:Trees
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents