Vascular Bioactivities of Marine Natural Products
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2019) | Viewed by 9522
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Interests: inflammation; endothelial cells; tissue regeneration; stem cells; cell differentiation; bioactive compounds; innovative cell cultures
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Dear Colleagues,
The constant increase in human life expectancy has significantly accounted for the increase of the risk of cardiovascular diseases among other disorders such as type II diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative and oncological diseases. These age-related disorders may be considered one of the most demanding worldwide health problems.
Numerous approaches have been described to delay and possibly treat cardiovascular disease and other age-related disorders; of these, some take account of the use of natural molecules and nutritional supplements.
Notably, the marine ecosystem presents an interesting source of new isolable bioactive compounds with diversified chemical structures, which are also believed to be an effective source of drug discovery.
In the last two decades, in fact, a large screening of marine compounds has been conducted and a wide range of activities, such as anti-inflammatory and/or anti-oxidant activities, have been reported. This supported the development of a recent discipline named marine pharmacology, which investigates the sea milieu looking for potential new pharmaceuticals.
These recent findings have established that such marine natural compounds have potential promising and significant vascular bioactivities, which may trigger the discovery of new drugs for the management of cardiovascular diseases, generally found in elderly people.
In this Special Issue we invite researchers to contribute original research articles and review articles that address primary and secondary metabolites of marine origin with vascular biological properties, which can be used either as supplements or marine natural products, but also as potential drugs that can delay the morbidity and mortality of related cardiovascular disorders.
As Guest Editor, I invite you to contribute to the Special Issue on the “Vascular Bioactivities of Marine Natural Products”. Original research reports and reviews will be published online in Marine Drugs.
Prof. Assunta Pandolfi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine metabolites
- antioxidant activity
- anti-inflammatory activity
- vascular cells
- endothelial dysfunction
- nitric oxide bioavailability
- cardiovascular disease
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