Discovery of Bioactive Compounds for Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 2917
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Chinese medicine; inflammatory diseases; pharmaceutics; drug delivery; quality control
Interests: perioperative medicine; anaesthesia and neuroinflammation; perioperative cardioprotection; neurodegenerative diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Inflammation is a complex physiological response of the body in defense against various harmful stimuli. However, an excessive or prolonged inflammatory response might cause continuous damage to the body and induce different chronic diseases. In recent years, there has been an ongoing discovery of bioactive agents with anti-inflammatory effects originating from naturally occurring compounds as well as their derivates, and this has become one of the most exciting areas in drug development. In addition, different research models and methodologies also play important roles in demonstrating the effectiveness and elucidating the underlying biological mechanisms of such compounds for inflammatory diseases.
This Special Issue intends to capture the state of the art and contemporary progress in this field. Proposed topics include novel methods for the discovery and testing of anti-inflammatory compounds, natural products, synthesized compounds, novel mechanisms and targets of anti-inflammation, advanced models (both in vitro and in vivo), the development of research methodologies and technologies, etc.
We expect that combined, submitted articles will give a realistic assessment of the value of bioactive compounds to future pharmaceutical discovery.
Dr. Hua Yu
Dr. Tin-chun Gordon Wong
Dr. Wei Xiong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- inflammatory diseases
- natural products
- structure-activity relationship
- anti-Inflammation
- antioxidant
- experimental models
- drug research and development
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