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Current Medicinal Chemistry

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ISSN (Print): 0929-8673
ISSN (Online): 1875-533X

An Over Four Millennium Story Behind Qinghaosu (Artemisinin)-A Fantastic Antimalarial Drug from a Traditional Chinese Herb

Author(s): Ying Li and Yu-Lin Wu

Volume 10, Issue 21, 2003

Page: [2197 - 2230] Pages: 34

DOI: 10.2174/0929867033456710

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Abstract

This article reviews the discovery and the further studies on qinghaosu and its derivatives or analogs over the last decades in the fields of medicinal chemistry and some pharmacology research, with an emphasis on the progress achieved in China.

Keywords: artemisinin, chemistry, structure determination, synthesis, pharmacology, antimalarial, mechanism of action

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