Save 種類 from 絶滅 or lose 可能性のある 薬／医学s, 警告する 専門家s

By Claire Bates
Updated: 16:20 BST, 23 April 2008

A new 世代 of 麻薬s from 抗生物質s to 治療s for 癌, may be lost unless the world 行為／法令／行動するs to 茎・取り除く the 現在進行中の 絶滅 of 工場／植物 and animals groups, によれば conservationists.

They said 種類 are 存在 lost before 研究員s have had the chance to 診察する and understand their 可能性のある health 利益s.

The （人命などを）奪う，主張するs are made in the 調書をとる／予約する '支えるing Life', which? 警告するd that 種類 are 存在 lost 予定 to 気候 change and 汚染 and this would 攻撃する，衝突する the 未来 of 薬／医学.

The 調書をとる／予約する 最高潮の場面s many examples of 可能性のある 麻薬s. The southern gastric brooding frog, 設立する in Australian rainforest in the 1980s, raised their

The physiology of 耐えるs could help us understand some 病気s, while 毒（薬） frogs could help create 治療s for heart 病気

young in the 女性（の）'s stomach using enzymes that 予選 熟考する／考慮するs showed could be used to 扱う／治療する human ulcers. But the frogs became extinct.

"The 価値のある 医療の secrets they held are now gone forever," said Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, the 重要な authors from Harvard 医療の School said, in a 声明 解放（する）d by the 部隊d Nati ons today.

The 調書をとる／予約する 選ぶs seven groups that could be 特に 価値のある to 薬／医学: amphibians, 耐えるs, 反対／詐欺 snails, sharks, 大主教s, horseshoe cabs and gymnosperms that 含む pines and the ginkgo tree.

The authors say the 調書をとる／予約する's 結論s should not be used as an excuse to 収穫 野性生物, but as a 刺激（する） for greater 自然保護.

治療s from frogs alone 含む toxins from the Panamanian 毒（薬） Frog that could be useful for heart 病気, painkillers from the Ecuadorian 毒（薬） Frog, anti-bacterial 構内／化合物s from the 肌 of the African Clawed Frog, and 構内／化合物s from the Chinese

Large-Webbed Bell Toad that dilate 血 大型船s and so could 扱う／治療する high
血 圧力.

Frog glue could 修理 cartilage and other tissue 涙／ほころびs in humans, but climatic changes have to led to habitat loss and 突然変異s in frogs.

The 国際連合 is 主要な 会談 for a new 気候 協定／条約 to 限界 放出／発行s of heat-trapping gases.

"Amphibians are 特に 極度の慎重さを要する," said Achim Steiner of the U.N. 環境 Programme, in a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 at an 環境 首脳会議 in Singapore.

大きくする ?

The hammerhead shark is 直面するing possible 絶滅

A peptide from 反対／詐欺 爆撃するs, which mostly live in 珊瑚 暗礁s, is thought to be 1,000 times more potent than morphine and in 臨床の 裁判，公判s, has 供給するd 苦痛 救済 for 前進するd 癌 and エイズ 患者s. Another peptide from horseshoe crabs has shown 約束 in 扱う／治療するing prostate and breast 癌.

People lose bone 集まり when bed-ridden but hibernating 耐えるs produce new bone, by using a 実体 that may have uses in fractures and osteoporosis. The ginkgo tree could 反対する Alzheimer's and shark 肝臓s could produce 抗生物質s.

The U.N is hoping for an 協定 on 自然保護 at the 条約 on 生物学の 多様制 in Bonn in May.

"You can 投資する in 自然保護 -- 取引，協定s can be made in favour of nature," said Steiner.