Natural Products, Their Derivatives, and Synthetic Compounds: Role in Nutrition Intervention and Health Promotion
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 171
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products and chronic disease prevention; food chemistry and nutrition; bioactive lipids in cancer
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Interests: phytochemicals; prevention or treatment of chronic diseases; lipid metabolites and cancer
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Interests: natural products; nutrition intervention; pharmacological properties; health risk assessment; nuclear receptors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past century, a large number of clinical drugs have been designed, synthesized, and used in the management, prevention, and treatment of human diseases. In comparison with mostly single-target synthetic compounds, natural products derived from folk medicines, edible plants, and animals might offer advantages due to their broader range of targets. Numerous natural products and their derivatives including doxorubicin, etoposide, paclitaxel, and vinblastine have demonstrated promising efficacy in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Furthermore, natural products such as phenolic compounds, vitamins, terpenoids, polysaccharides, and polypeptides can also promote nutrition and health benefits, and protect against inflammatory chronic diseases (e.g., obesity and diabetes). Despite all this, a further exploration of the role of natural and synthetic compounds in nutrition intervention and health promotion is still needed in order to develop commercially and clinically available products.
This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers to discuss the role of natural and synthetic compounds in nutrition intervention and health promotion with the aim of contributing to the development of this field. We welcome contributions of high-quality research that take the form of original research articles, reviews, or mini-reviews, and are based on but are not limited to experimental, epidemiological, and clinical studies of the health benefits of natural and synthetic compounds, the pharmacological properties and target identification of natural and synthetic compounds, as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms of human diseases.
Prof. Dr. Jianjun Deng
Prof. Dr. Haixia Yang
Dr. Jie Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- synthetic compounds
- structural modification
- human diseases
- nutrition intervention
- health promotion
- pharmacological properties
- molecular mechanisms
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