Dietary Antioxidants and Gut Health—2nd Edition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 127
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal nutrition; bioactive compounds; gastrointestinal tract; microbial activity
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Interests: mitochondria; phytochemicals; intestinal/systemic inflammation; protein metabolism; metabolism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the great response we received with the previous Special Issue "Dietary Antioxidants and Gut Health", we decided to release a second edition.
Under normal conditions, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are produced in gastrointestinal epithelial cells—either from oxygen metabolism or enteric commensal bacteria—and contribute to regulating gut health. However, elevated production of ROS/RNS increases further harmful free radical production and antioxidant activity, and imbalances in both lead to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress can also arise from nutritional, environmental (like heat stress), and pathological factors.
Supplemented antioxidants (vitamins and plant extracts with antioxidant properties) scavenge ROS/RNS and are beneficial in mitigating oxidative stress in the gut. This, in turn, translates into the proper functioning of the body, reducing the risk of metabolic, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases.
We encourage you to submit the results of your latest research or a review article on antioxidants of dietary origin and the key role they play in the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract, including in the regulation of microbiota.
We envisage that this Special Issue will help highlight the latest advances in aspects related to the interaction between these reactive species, as beneficial nutrients, and the gastrointestinal tract.
Dr. Marcin Taciak
Dr. Motoi Kikusato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary antioxidants
- gastrointestinal tract
- epithelial cells
- microbiota
- inflammation
- digestion ability
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