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

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

Volume: 10 Issue: 21

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

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

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.

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Li Ying and Wu Yu-Lin, An Over Four Millennium Story Behind Qinghaosu (Artemisinin)-A Fantastic Antimalarial Drug from a Traditional Chinese Herb, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2003; 10 (21) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867033456710