Abstract

There are over a hundred chemical substances that have been derived from plants for use as drugs and medicines; many more await and medicinal plants are the target of all the attention. The structural diversity of natural products still surpasses that from synthetic compounds and is far beyond any imagination of experts in the field. For many pharmaceutical companies, it is a good argument to investigate natural compounds. Many plants with antidiabetic virtues are known in traditional medicine over the world. The CPID (Centre de Pharmacologie et Innovation dans le Diabète) proposes a technology program to purify new natural antidiabetic substances. A large antidiabetic plant library is constructed for a high-throughput pharmacological screening with cell cultures.

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