id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-020778-4jslid14 El Sayed, Khalid A. Natural Products as Antiviral Agents 2007-09-02 .txt text/plain 12785 1834 72 The aim of this review is to provide an overview on the central role of natural products in the discovery and development of new antiviral drugs by displaying 340 structures of plant, marine and microbial origin that show promising in vitro antiviral activity. I n orde r t o comba t viruse s whic h have devastatin g effect s o n humans , animals , insects , cro p plants , fung i and bacteria, many research efforts hav e been devoted for the discovery of new antiviral natural products. Many marine-derived peptides, alkaloids, proteins, nucleosides and other A^-containing compound s were show n to be active agains t severa l vira l species. ./cache/cord-020778-4jslid14.txt ./txt/cord-020778-4jslid14.txt