Recent Progress in Health Benefits from Curcumin, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 547
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Interests: extracellular vesicle; microglia; bioactive foods; neuroprotection; neurodegenera-tive diseases; ageing; anti-inflammatory molecules; curcumin; resveratrol; vita-mins
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural products have been used in medicine for thousands of years. In recent times, they have gained significant attention globally due to their potential health benefits.
Polyphenols such as resveratrol, curcumin and flavonoids are involved in plants’ defensive responses against stress from ultraviolet radiation, pathogens and physical damage. Phytochemicals regulate differential gene expression to modulate the various cellular pathways implicated in cellular protection. Curcumin, a natural dietary polyphenol extracted from Curcuma Longa L., is an anti-inflammatory, cyto- and DNA-protective, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer and anti-aging dietary compound.
Curcumin is a highly pleiotropic molecule that interacts with numerous molecular targets; in fact, different studies have demonstrated its capacity to attenuate inflammatory responses, induce antioxidant pathways and exert anti-cancer effects. Curcumin’s bioavailability is very low in humans, so an appropriate drug delivery system is useful for its clinical application.
This Special Issue entitled “Recent Progress in Health Benefits from Curcumin, 2nd Edition” welcomes the submission of both original research manuscripts and reviews concerning the biological properties of curcumin in vitro and in clinical trials, its bioavailability and its health-promoting effects other than its potential therapeutic applications, including its incorporation into novel functional matrices.
Prof. Dr. Chiara Porro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- curcumin
- natural compounds
- molecular pathway
- cancer
- anti-inflammatory proprieties
- antioxidant proprieties
- anti-aging
- therapy
- nanosphere
- exosomes
- miRNA
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