Anti-cancer Potential of Plant-Based Antioxidants
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 April 2025 | Viewed by 429
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cancer biology; antioxidants; reactive oxygen species; molecular biology; mitochondria; cancer therapy
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Interests: antioxidants; nutraceuticals; phytochemicals; biological activities; bioactive compounds; phenolic compounds; polyphenols
Interests: antioxidants; nutraceuticals; phytochemicals; biological activities; bioactive compounds; polyphenols
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of medicinal plants is the oldest form of primary healthcare, and has always been profitable in medical and pharmacological terms. Currently, it is well known that approximately 50% of the most effective drugs are derived from natural sources, hence the great interest of the pharmaceutical industry in exploring new natural sources for the extraction and identification of bioactive ingredients with potential health benefits. In this context, the study of medicinal plants and plant-derived bioactive substances plays a fundamental role in cancer therapy, allowing for the identification of molecules with valuable biological activity and/or the development of anticancer drugs widely used in the clinical practice, such as taxanes, chloroquine and artemisinin.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and comprehensive reviews dealing with the molecular mechanism of action underpinning the antitumor activity of functional antioxidants derived from plants on all types of neoplastic disease, including studies in vitro, animal models and clinical trials.
We look forward to your contribution.
Dr. Javier Espino
Dr. María Garrido
Dr. Jonathan Delgado-Adamez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer
- antitumor activity
- medicinal plants
- natural antioxidants
- polyphenols
- terpenoids
- carotenoids
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