Nanotechnology Applied to the Effects of Nutrients on Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2022) | Viewed by 6815
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many nutrients, phytochemicals, and bioactive compounds have the potential to prevent or even treat chronic diseases including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, certain cancers, chronic respiratory disease, chronic liver disease, chronic inflammatory conditions, and more. However, their low levels of aqueous solubility, stability, bioavailability, and target specificity, and high levels of side effects including hepatic metabolism, and toxicity if taken at high doses, restrict their applications in combating chronic diseases that need regular doses for long periods. Encapsulation of these nutrients and compounds into biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles provides a very promising route to overcome these limitations. Nanoencapsulation can significantly increase their aqueous solubility and stability, improve their absorption and bioavailability, protect them from degradation, render their sustained release, prolong their circulation time, and enhance the permeation and retention effect in disease tissues. More importantly, nanoparticles coated with targeting ligands can deliver the encapsulated payload into specific cells or tissues, resulting in a high level of preventive or therapeutic efficacy and a low level of toxicity and side effects.
This Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Nanotechnology Applied to the Effects of Nutrients on Chronic Diseases”, welcomes the submission of manuscripts reporting original research or reviewing the scientific literature. Articles investigating effects of nanoparticle-assisted delivery of nutrients, phytochemicals and bioactive compounds on any type of chronic diseases are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Shu Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- nutrients
- nanoparticles
- nutraceuticals
- bioactivities
- bioavailability
- chronic diseases
- obesity
- diabetes
- cardiovascular disease
- fatty liver disease
- metabolic disorders
