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Antibiotic study centers on Kansas plants
The disease-fighting compounds found in Kansas plants may be the antibiotics of the future, according to the author, professor of medicinal chemistry.
By ROSE SIMMONS Staff Reporter
"The literature is full of reports that mention Mitscher, in higher plants." Mitscher said.
Mitscher has been investigating plants like the sunflower and jimmycorn to develop folklore for planting the idea of researching plant antibiotic activity.
"I didn't stumble on unrevealed
truths," he said. "Folklore suggests that the extracts from higher plants are effective in treating some kinds of illnesses."
Mitscher said indigenous peoples, such as American Indians, had very old recipes for curing diseases by using plants.
Mitscher said his research had systematized the search for plants that could be used to treat diseases. He said his search had uneasured results but he has achieved for effectiveness against established antibiotics such as penicillin and tetracycline.
THE ESTABLISHED antibiotics, which are prepared from soil microorganisms, lose their effective compounds. Mitcher said. New antibiotics must be found to take their places, he said.
New antibiotics may come from Kansas plants, collected from the countryside by a team of graduate researchers. The direction of a research assistant.
When the-plants are brought back to the lab at KU, their chemical compounds are extracted and the testing for antibiotic activity begins.
IT TAKES six months to three years to determine what compounds are needed for the plant to perform its chemical complexity and how easily the plant's compounds can be purified.
The testing involves adding chemical compounds from a plant to screen plants.
The microbes are related to those that cause skin boils, diphtheria, tuberculosis and yeast infections, which especially afflict women.
Several local plants have been found
to contain active antibiotics effective against skin bolls, yeast infections and tuberculosis-causing organisms, he said.
The licorice root, used to flavor root beer and chewing tobacco, has been found to contain compounds that have anti-fungi properties, Mitscher said.
It takes years of testing before compounds from raw plant extracts are ready for commercial use. It also universities that can develop machines that do not have, Mitcher said.
Private firms, who do have the resources, have tested active compounds discovered by Mitscher's research.
The effectiveness of the compounds proved to have antibiotic activity, and that they were documented for private firms to approve expensive commercial testing.
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