Antioxidant Capacity of Bioactive Plant Compounds for Therapeutic Purpose
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 114186
Special Issue Editor
Interests: intestinal absorption of nutrients; sepsis status (LPS, cytokines and inflammation); plant extracts and olive oil (squalene) for therapeutic purposes; encapsulation of plant extracts to improve their bioavailability; antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of plant extracts; antioxidant and anti-inflammatory markers; studies (modulators, pathways and targets) of apoptosis, necroptosis and autophagy; cell culture; cancer (mainly colon cancer) and diseases related to oxidative stress (cardiovascular, osteoarthritis and cancer); chemotherapeutics (gold complexes)
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Dear Colleagues,
The applications of plant extracts for therapeutic purposes have been used in traditional medicine since plants contain bioactive compounds with beneficial health properties, polyphenols being the most abundant. Recent evidence suggests that the beneficial effects of polyphenols involve decreases in oxidative/inflammatory stress signaling. Epidemiological studies and associated meta-analyses strongly suggest that long-term consumption of diets rich in plant polyphenols offers protection against the development of cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, and neurodegenerative diseases.
On the other hand, we cannot rule out the revaluation of fruit and vegetable wastes (skins, leaves, peels, pulps, seeds, roots, and stems) that contain a high amount of bioactive compounds such as polyphenols and vitamins, among others, with an important antioxidant activity. The circular economy is a new model of production and consumption that involves the recovery of plant byproducts, discarded to date, providing multiple environmental, economic, and social benefits.
Currently, phytochemical and ethnobotanical studies are being carried out in order to identify the mechanism of action of a wide variety of natural compounds present in extracts or wastes from the plant.
This Special Issue may publish original research papers and reviews on aspects related to the antioxidant properties of bioactive plant compounds as well as the modulators and pathways involved in their therapeutic actions.
Dr. María Jesús Rodríguez-Yoldi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antioxidant activity
- bioactive plant compounds
- plant extracts
- plant wastes
- oxidative stress diseases
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