Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Antidiabetic, and Anticancer Activities of Medicinal Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Nature creates plants for us with multiple purposes. In addition to beautifying and protecting our environment as living and processed materials, economic plants feed the hungry population, and medicinal plants are an indispensable part of healthcare systems in many countries. Multiple components of metabolites from medicinal plants offer unique health benefits, and isolated single molecules from plant extracts provide a rich source for modern drug discovery and development to fight cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic diseases, and so on. These diseases are often linked to the primary causes of excess reactive species and chronic inflammation in the human body.

Thus, the present Special Issue will focus on anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, and anticancer actions exhibited by plant extracts and isolated molecules. We encourage original research articles and reviews that contribute to an improved understanding and utilization of medicinal plants with these bioactivities for drug discovery and therapeutic application.

We also invite manuscripts elucidating the synergy of multiple components typically present in medicinal plants, crude extracts, and purified extracts. Studies exploring the interaction and connection among the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, and anticancer activities are especially welcome. 

Dr. G. David Lin
Prof. Dr. Maria Iorizzi
Dr. Claudia Genovese
Guest Editors

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• anti-inflammatory
• antioxidant
• antimicrobial
• antidiabetic
• anticancer
• multicomponent synergy
• natural products chemistry
• phytopharmacology