Natural Products: From Isolation and Identification to Biological Activity—4th Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 129
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal and aromatic plants; ethnobotanical uses; plant extracts; bioactive compounds; polyphenols; nutraceuticals
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Dear Colleagues,
It is widely accepted by the scientific community that natural products represent a major source of new chemical entities, with potential applications for drug discovery (especially as anticancer and anti-infective agents). The discovery of new bioactive natural products as leads for therapeutic development can be inspired by ethnobotanical knowledge or achieved by screening a collection of extracts for bioactivity using in vitro, ex vivo and even in vivo assays.
Traditionally, plants have been excellent sources of naturally produced compounds with biological effects. Other organisms, such as marine and terrestrial animals, and microorganisms, also provide very important drug candidate molecules.
The biological activity and structural diversity of bioactive compounds are unsurpassed by any available synthetic screening libraries. As such, these privileged scaffolds serve as important biologically prevalidated platforms for the design of compound libraries in the search for new drug candidates with diverse indications for human health.
The fourth edition of this Special Issue aims to gather the updates and recent advances in research on natural products as sources of bioactive compounds. This Special Issue may include full articles and reviews focused on new extraction procedures; and the isolation and characterization of biologically active compounds from a wide range of natural sources; as well as in vitro and in vivo studies of the biological properties of extracts, fractions and isolated compounds which could potentially be explored for the development of pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals.
Dr. Natalizia Miceli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ethnobotany
- biological activity
- antioxidants
- phytochemical characterization
- plant secondary metabolites
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