Sustainable Valorization of Seafood By-Products through Recovery of Valuable Bioactive Compounds 2.0
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seafood by-products; bioactive molecules; in vivo assays; enzymes; protein hydrolysates; upgrading; bioactive ingredients
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Interests: seafood processing and utilization of processing by-products; marine peptides and protein hydrolysates; marine glycosaminoglycans; nutraceuticals and functional foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Based on the success of the Special Issue ”Sustainable Valorization of Seafood By-Products through Recovery of Valuable Bioactive Compounds” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/JHU7MRG39S),
we are pleased to announce the second edition of this Special Issue.
Seafood processing, mainly on factory vessels, generates a large number of by-products, such as heads, bones and guts, which represent between 30% and 70% of the whole weight. These by-products, although hardly used, are a good source of macro and micronutrients, as well as of molecules with bioactive potential such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, peptides, or chitosan. An improved waste processing strategy is, however, necessary to extract these compounds, especially in the framework of a circular economy.
In this context, we invite authors to contribute to this Special Issue with articles on the extraction of bioactive molecules from seafood processing by-products, with cosmetic (e.g., wound repairers), pharmaceutical, or nutraceutical interest (antihypertensives, hypoglycaemics, nootropics, anti-aging, anti-tumour, etc.). Articles describing the optimisation of the extraction process of these molecules, mainly using green technologies, and their bioactive effect in vitro and/or in vivo, as well as processes that favour their production (e.g., fermentation), are also welcome.
Dr. Oscar Martinez-Alvarez
Prof. Dr. Ali Bougatef
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- seafood upgrading
- bioactive molecules
- nutraceuticals
- cosmeceuticals
- high-throughput screenings
- protein hydrolysates
- marine ingredients
- functional food
