Advances in Natural Products and Their Biological Activities
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 249669
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural product; bioctivity; inflammation; pain; antimicrobial activity; pharmacological activity
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: natural product; antimicrobial activity; pharmacological activity
Interests: natural product; pharmacological activity; ex vivo assay
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural product-based drug discovery can provide new structural chemical entities of interest for use in pharmacotherapy and biomedicine, representing an essential strategy for drug discovery through isolation, characterization, molecular optimization, and biological screening that will allow the discovery of drugs that can revolutionize the treatment of various diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases resulting from antimicrobial resistance, inflammatory processes, and neurological disorders. This Special Issue highlights selected applications and discusses key opportunities that can help address the exploration of bioactive compounds or biological materials from the environmental diversity of different biomes to maximize the identification of compounds that affect molecular targets and their pharmacological potential to benefit human health. We aim to focus on the selection of reviews and original research reports with high-quality advanced knowledge obtained by research groups worldwide that work with natural products. Additionally, research showing advanced technologies relating to formulations using natural compounds and their activities is also a focus of this Special Issue. Next, we welcome authors who can contribute original research on several related fields related to natural compounds, their bioactivity, and their mechanisms of action.
Prof. Dr. Irwin Rose Alencar Menezes
Prof. Dr. Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho
Prof. Dr. Almir Gonçalves Wanderley
Prof. Dr. Jaime Ribeiro-Filho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemical
- natural product
- phytotherapy
- medicinal plants
- biological activity pharmaceutical formulations
- biological activity
- pharmacological or toxicology effects
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