Modern In Vitro Test Systems

Herbal-derived compounds need a deep assessment of their pharmacological qualities and safety issues due to the widespread and growing use of herbal-derived medicines all over the world, which cannot rely only on traditional or supposed millenarian beliefs. In vitro and in vivo studies are useful and complementary in the acquisition of reliable data both for health caregiver and patients. Currently, the development of new drugs (eg, herbal-derived drugs) is suffering from two major limitations. First, none of the animal species or in vitro ...