Natural Pharmacons: Biologically Active Plant-Based Pharmaceuticals 2022
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 72398
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Interests: microfungi; macrofungi; antibacterial activity; antifungal activity; natural products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants present a valuable source of chemicals with potential therapeutic properties. They are widely used in traditional medicine as supportive therapeutics for various conditions and diseases. In recent years, there have been extensive studies in the area of medicinal plant research dealing with their various pharmacological effects. Novel research on this subject is necessary, since this is a hot topic field. Many in vitro studies describe the beneficial effects of plants for human health, highlighting promising pharmacological effects.
This thematic issue will cover the biological activity of medicinal plants and isolated compounds. Screening natural preparations for their biological activities is of prime importance, since natural raw material presents an excellent source of pharmaceuticals with a wide variety of different biologically active chemical structures. If your manuscript includes plant mixtures, please do check the following:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmaceuticals/instructions#mixtures
The scope of the thematic issue will cover but is not limited to:
- - Chemical characterization of natural preparations;
- Therapeutic potential of natural matrices in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases;
- Antimicrobial activity;
- Antioxidant activity;
- Anti-enzymatic activity;
- Anti-inflammatory activity;
- Mechanism of pharmacological actions;
- Structure–activity studies.
Dr. Dejan Stojković
Dr. Marina Soković
Guest Editors
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