Plant Bioactive Compounds in Human Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 164
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Interests: computational biology; molecular modeling; drug design; protein structure and dynamics; protein conformational disorders
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants have been a major source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and a remarkable number of modern drugs have been designed from plant bioactive compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and phenolic acids. Still, their significant contribution to preventing human diseases is becoming more popular day by day. Due to the extensive spectrum of their molecular makeup, plant compounds are pharmacologically active against many pathophysiological conditions, such as microbial infection, oxidative stress, inflammation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and thus benefit many acute and chronic degenerative diseases. Furthermore, phytochemicals can serve as adjuvants when used with conventional medicines to enhance their effectiveness, minimize their adverse reactions, lower the probability of resistant microbial strains or cancer cells being developed, and perhaps show reverse resistance, including radioresistance. Considering the recent advantages in omics technologies, it is plausible to anticipate that many more undiscovered structure–activity correlations involving plant molecules that are of physiological and pharmacological importance will be revealed and defined. The current Special Issue aims to bring together chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, computer-aided drug design scientists, and clinicians to work as a multidisciplinary team in diverse areas with multiple applications of plant molecules in diverse human diseases.
This Special Issue invites submissions of (in vitro, in vivo and in silico) original research and review articles focusing on new perspectives in chemistry and functional characteristics of plant-based bioactive compounds, including their chemistry, pharmacokinetics, interactions, and molecular mechanisms against human diseases.
This special issue is supervised by Dr. Raju Dash and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Sarmistha Mitra (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology).
Dr. Raju Dash
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant extracts
- plant-derived compounds
- secondary metabolites
- mechanism of action
- bioavailability
- human health and disease
- computer-aided drug design
- machine learning and artificial Intelligence
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