Managing Natural Products

Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

Managing Hybrid IT-Products

While the economic impact of pure in-kind transfers tends to decrease, because of the declining differentiation possibilities, Hybrid Products (solutions) gain relevance. Hybrid Products are aligned products and services, which are being offered as integrated performance bundles (Johansson et al. 2003, S. 116-125). Therefore, their special trait is the added value of the integration of both, pr...

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marine microbial natural products

Antimicrobial Natural Products

Natural antimicrobials are secondary metabolites that can be found in plants, animals, and microorganisms.Plants, especially herbs and spices, are been given more attention in natural antimicrobial research, however; this chapter focuses on the newly discoveries in fruits and vegetables. Microorganisms that are been used in food fermentation also produce different antimicrobial metabolites incl...