Advances on Natural Products: Isolation, Identification and Biological Activity
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 106687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products; drug discovery; proteomics; cancer immunotherapy; immune checkpoints; immune checkpoint regulation
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Interests: bioactive natural products; anti-aging; nutraceuticals; cosmeceuticals
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Interests: natural products; DNA modification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Historically, natural products and their derived bioactive components, as well as analogs, have made a major contribution to drug discovery, especially for cancer and inflammatory diseases. The isolation and identification of novel bioactive ingredients as well as their advantageous applications in pharmacotherapy have always drawn much attention from scientists. A major challenge of nature-derived drug discovery is lab-intensive and time-consuming extraction and isolation processes. Therefore, novel techniques including green approaches, solvent-free methods, as well as the application of omics approaches have been employed.
In this Special Issue, we will accept the papers on the application of novel techniques for isolation and identification, novel bioactivities of natural product-derived ingredients, as well as the combination of omics approaches and traditional assays for the evaluation of bioactive ingredients.
Dr. Chang Liu
Dr. Hang Ma
Dr. Ang Cai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- isolation and identification
- drug discovery
- omics approaches
- phytochemical investigation
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