Natural Products and Derivatives for the Management of Inflammatory Conditions
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2024) | Viewed by 2031
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HDAC; vasorelaxant agents; antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals; leukemia; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; hybrid compounds; retinitis pigmentosa
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2. Net4Science Academic Spin-Off, Università “Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: computational chemistry; medicinal chemistry; infectiouse disease; drug repurposing; virtual screening; molecular dynamics; antioxidant activity
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural products represent a huge source of chemicals with a wide set of uses in drug discovery. Indeed, they emerged as a good starting point due to their interaction with different enzymes/receptors. In this context, not only polyphenols but also other classes of secondary metabolites showed themselves to be promising anti-inflammatory/anti-oxidant agents, fostering the development of new or repurposed pharmacological tools in both academia and industry. This was also spurred by the use of computational methods, which predict biochemical interactions that can be then confirmed in in vitro/ex vivo/in vivo studies.
In this Special Issue, we welcome review articles and original articles from chemical and biological point of views, ranging from drug discovery to biological/pharmacological studies and from virtual screening to fully integrated biochemical/pharmacological studies, in order to understand the full potential of natural products in drug research.
Dr. Gabriele Carullo
Dr. Isabella Romeo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidant activity
- anti-inflammatory agents
- drug design
- drug discovery
- cancer
- infectious disease
- immunology
- inflammation
- molecular docking
- virtual screening
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