Sources and Bioactivities of Marine Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 6237
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine lipids with biological activity and with interest in human health and nutrition; bioactive glycolipids; fatty acid and sterol compositions; marine sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids; analytical methods in structure determination and lipidomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: marine lipids with biological activity and with interest in human health and nutrition; bioactive glycolipids; fatty acid and sterol compositions; marine sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids; analytical methods in structure determination and lipidomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: marine lipids with biological activity and with interest in human health and nutrition; bioactive glycolipids; fatty acid and sterol compositions; marine sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids; analytical methods in structure determination and lipidomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since 2013, Marine Drugs has published several Special Issues dealing with “marine lipids” in general and four with 31 papers devoted to marine fatty acids, their sources, and their bioactivities. As this field of research is very dynamic, the present Special Issue entitled “Sources and Bioactivities of Marine Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids” aims to focus especially on PUFAs isolated from marine organisms. In fact, those compounds—particularly long-chain PUFAs such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)—are known to present interesting activities such as improving the efficacy and tolerability of cancer chemotherapy, cancer prevention, neuroprotective efficiency, cardiovascular disease protection, or anti-inflammatory effects. Due to their biological activities and to avoid an overconsumption of fish oil (the main source of PUFAs), new alternative renewable sources for these PUFAs are needed.
The welcomed contributions will provide noticeable extensions of knowledge from various points of view, such as the description of novel unconventional PUFAs and their possible properties, novel renewable marine sources of PUFAs, potential applications for by-products of fish industries, lipidomics approaches for the study of PUFAs, and new biological activities, but also information about the mechanisms responsible for those activities. Moreover, scientific papers dealing with biosynthetic pathways in marine organisms but also new potential applications for those PUFAs could also be considered for publication.
As Guest Editors, we invite colleagues working on marine lipids to contribute to this Special Issue of Marine Drugs with interesting papers showing significant advances within this field.
Dr. Aurelie Couzinet-Mossion
Prof. Gilles Barnathan
Dr. Gaetane Wielgosz-Collin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)
- marine organisms
- biological activities
- biosynthetic pathways
- industrial applications
- lipidomics
- marine lipids
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