Abstract
A review of the drug development process during the past half century clearly shows that drugs derived from natural resources represent a significant segment of the pharmaceutical market as compared to randomly synthesized compounds. In fact, about one quarter of all drugs in modern pharmacopeia derive from plants. If semisynthetic derivatives of natural compounds or drugs mimicking pharmacophores from natural products are included into this group, the numbers are even higher.
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