Bioactive Natural Compounds: Therapeutic Insights and Applications
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 596
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural products; bioactive compounds; phytochemistry; metabolomics; mass spectrometry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Life will soon publish a Special Issue on “Bioactive Natural Compounds: Therapeutic Insights and Applications”. Plant extracts and other natural products are complex mixtures of natural compounds and they and their metabolites are suitable for a various applications in the fields of pharmaceutics and nutrition. Natural products enriched with bioactive compounds provide the scientific and industrial communities with opportunities to develop new drugs, cosmetics and functional foods.
The natural compounds analysed in this Special Issue should include plant phytochemicals and animal products with proven effects. The bioactivity of phytochemicals of plant extracts is essential for their functionality and this bioactivity should be determined through novel and appropriate techniques and assays. Extraction is one of the most important steps in determining the functionality of chemicals of natural origin and different extraction methods and techniques could change composition and bioactive effects of plant extracts, which may also be covered by this Special Issue. Since bioactive compounds extracted from plant material are complex mixtures, their separation and quantitative and qualitative analysis are crucial steps in the structural composition of extracts. Appropriate and novel analytical methods or their validation procedures should be used for publications in this Special Issue., and extensive literature reviews of novel topics will be published in tandem.
Therefore, considering the great and growing interest in natural compounds, this Special Issue will cover the diverse perspectives of their qualitative and quantitative analysis. In striving to achieve this, we will compare extraction methods with the phytochemical profiles of extracts and their bioactivity to generate structure-focused views of natural compounds that can be employed as bioactive elements in various fields.
Dr. Vaidotas Žvikas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- bioactive compounds
- plant extracts
- phytochemicals
- analytical method validation
