DiaNat-DB: a molecular database of antidiabetic compounds from medicinal plants.

ABSTRACT: Natural products are an invaluable source of molecules with a large variety of biological activities. Interest in natural products in drug discovery is documented in an increasing number of publications of bioactive secondary metabolites. Among those, medicinal plants are one of the most studied for this endeavor. An ever thriving area of opportunity within the field concerns the discovery of antidiabetic natural products. As a result, a vast amount of secondary metabolites are isolated from medicinal plants used against diabetes mellitus but whose information has not been organized systematically yet. Several research articles enumerate antidiabetic compounds, but the lack of a chemical database for antidiabetic metabolites limits their application in drug development. In this work, we pr

SUBMITTER: Madariaga-Mazon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8694643 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature