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Published on: June 29, 2016
Marine natural products as lead anti-HIV agents
D J Gochfeld1, K A El Sayed, M Yousaf
1Department of Pharmacognosy and the National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, P.O. Box 1848, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA.
Abstract:
Current anti-HIV drugs have extreme side effects and resistance to these drugs develops rapidly. The marine environment holds an unprecedented number of unusual chemical structural classes with activity against HIV. We review the literature on anti-HIV activity of marine natural products and discuss the efficacy of different structural classes.

