Natural Products for the Treatment of Diabetes and Obesity II
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 111
Special Issue Editor
Interests: obesity; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; natural product; zebrafish; molecular biology; pharmacology; drug screening
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Overweight and obesity have become global human health issues in recent years. Frequent health-related consequences associated with obesity include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, and cancer. Along with the epidemic of obesity, there is a parallel increase in the prevalence of diabetes worldwide. Healthy lifestyle interventions are recommended to fight obesity and diabetes, such as increasing physical activity, eating healthy food, and maintaining the proper body weight. Bioactive compounds derived from natural product intake are another choice that is expected to prevent or treat obesity and diabetes with minimal side effects.
Therefore, this Special Issue of Molecules focuses on the natural products that combat obesity and diabetes, including but not limited to the following:
- Discovery of new bioactive compounds (derived from plants, animals, algae, fungus, etc.) and the related molecular mechanism research on obesity, diabetes, and their complications.
- Natural products work on inflammation, carcinogenesis, gut microbiota, and body–brain crosstalk, focusing on obesity and brain function, among other things.
- Methodology for optimizing bioactive compounds discovery.
We welcome researchers to share their findings in this field, either in the form of original research or review articles.
Dr. Liqing Zang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- bioactive compounds
- obesity
- diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- human health
- molecular mechanism
- nutrients
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