Abstract

Natural products are quite complex constituents and falls in the category of alkaloids, terpenoids, carotenoids etc are yielded from the various sources with the prominent medicinal and healing values. In this text the discussion is made about their constituents along with their structures and interestingly it is very challenging to understand their role in healing various diseases without any major side effects. The alkaloids like caffeine, morphine, hyosamine etc are explained and sources from which they are obtained are also  mentioned. Ongoing researches do get innovative claims about the new natural products entities employing sophisticated instrumentations.

Issue

The Experiment 2013

Article Subject:

Biotechnology

KeyWords:

instrumentations, morphine, Caffeine, terpenoids, carotenoids.

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Omprakash H. Nautiyal, The Experiment, 2013, May, Vol.10. (1), 611-646