Neuroprotective Effects of Marine Natural Products
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 11518
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The great diversity and richness of marine natural compounds have attracted the attention and interest of researchers and pharmaceutical companies, who are fully aware of the significant difficulties using these vast media implies. Bryozoans, tunicates, soft corals, sponges, macro and microalgae and cyanobacteria are interesting sources for new natural compounds with therapeutic potential. However, despite this big diversity, only a few marine compounds have been able to reach the pharmaceutical market. The increase in life expectancy has led to a rise in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases, most of them with common cellular abnormalities such as mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, autophagy or neuroinflammation. Natural compounds and especially marine compounds are characterized by their ability to modulate cellular antioxidant defenses, mitochondria, inflammation, and therefore, have great pharmacological potential as neuroprotective agents.
This Special Issue will highlight progress in the following fields of study: the use of bioactive compounds from marine organisms for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and new drug development (e.g., for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, stroke, Huntington's disease, aging); the isolation of novel compounds; the bioactivity screening in neuronal models (in vitro and in vivo); and the elucidation of new molecular modes of action of marine bioactive compounds with utility for nervous system pathologies.
We are inviting researchers to submit their reviews and new works showing evidence of the neuroprotective potential of marine products in cellular and animal models and related to the advances in terms of the new mechanisms of action and drug development of molecules of marine origin.
Dr. Eva Alonso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Neuroprotection
- Marine products
- Neurodegeneration
- Aging
- Drug development
- Bioactivity
- Screening
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