Molecular and Cellular Studies of Natural Antioxidants as Potential Therapeutics for Cancer
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 37112
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural product screening for anticancer; oxidative stress, antioxidant, DNA damage, apoptosis, selective killing, flow cytometry
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Interests: tumor biology; signal transduction; chemoresistance; programmed cell death; natural products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am inviting you to submit an article for the upcoming Special Issue “Molecular and Cellular Studies of Natural Antioxidants as Potential Therapeutics for Cancer” in Pharmaceuticals.
Mounting evidence demonstrates natural antioxidants’ chemopreventive and antiproliferative effects on cancer cells. For this purpose, many natural products have been rapidly developed, most of which present antioxidant properties but rarely anticancer effects. Moreover, antioxidants may exhibit dual functions for modulating oxidative stress by decreasing or increasing cellular ROS levels in a concentration-dependent manner. Therefore, the antioxidant properties of natural products warrant detailed investigation, especially for their applications in cancer therapy.
This Special Issue will present research and review papers concerning the development of novel pharmaceuticals and therapy strategies with natural antioxidants for anticancer research, which holds great future promise. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Identification of new targets for natural antioxidants in cancer theranostics;
- Evaluation of natural products with antioxidant and anticancer properties;
- Evaluation of natural products with antioxidant and chemopreventive properties;
- Exploring the relationship between oxidative stress and natural antioxidants;
- The mechanism of antioxidant signaling in natural products;
- Studies of natural antioxidant-derived compound development;
- Prospective combination therapy with clinical drugs and natural products;
- Prospective combination therapy with radiation and natural products.
Prof. Dr. Hsueh-Wei Chang
Dr. Chien-Chih Chiu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidants
- natural products
- oxidative stress
- ROS
- mitochondria
- DNA damage
- apoptosis
- ferroptosis
- necroptosis
- migration
- angiogenesis
- ER stress
- senescence
- cell death
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