The Immunomodulatory Potential of Natural Compounds: Recent Advances
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2905
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition and dietary components; herbal medicine; immunomodulatory potential of natural compounds; novel gene regulation; diabetes-related diseases; metabolic disease; inflammation; COPD; cancer therapy; cancer biology; regulation of p53; regulation of c-Myc
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural compounds are increasingly used for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, bactericidal, and veridical properties for the benefit of human health. Although the number of publications dealing with natural compounds has increased significantly in recent years, it is true that there is still a lack of research on evaluating the efficacy of natural products.
Inflammation presents the latest international advances in experimental and clinical research on the physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, and pharmacology of inflammation. It can be either short-lived (acute) or long-lasting (chronic). Acute inflammation goes away within hours or days. Chronic inflammation can last months or years, even after the first trigger is gone. Conditions linked to chronic inflammation include cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, COPD, and Alzheimer’s disease.
The aim of this Special Issue is to study, at a molecular level, the mechanisms of action of natural compounds (herbal medicine) in their various beneficial properties to human health and develop novel preventive and therapeutic agents against inflammation, metabolic disease, cancer, and other associated diseases.
We invite all scientists working on natural compounds (herbal medicine) to participate in this Special Issue. Original research articles or reviews on all aspects of the molecular and cellular mechanisms modulated by natural compounds (herbal medicine) are welcome.
We look forward to your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Hyeung-Jin Jang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- nutrients
- herbal medicine
- inflammation
- metabolic disease
- cancer therapy
- p53
- c-Myc
- novel gene
- heart disease
- asthma
- COPD
- Alzheimer’s disease
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