Bioactive Natural and Synthetic Products in Human Health and Diseases: Basic, Preclinical and Clinical Studies—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Homeostasis of the human body is guaranteed throughout life and across all ages via nature’s blessed natural dietary products or in their modified format as synthetic scaffold products that aid in boosting immunity, maintaining health, treating ailments or preventing disease occurrences or recurrences, and thus ensuring normal wellbeing. Biologically active natural and plant-derived, including fruits and vegetables, product preparations and synthetic scaffold products are garnering interest as valid human health-promoting, disease prevention, and management entities. Several of these bio-actives are antioxidants, polyphenols and other major medicinal entities that regulate vital physiological processes, including gene expression, protein synthesis, metabolism, differentiation and growth via mechanisms that are not well understood. Through epidemiological and intervention studies, several of these bioactives have been claimed and/or proven to offer protection against aging and health, oxidative stress, infection and several chronic inflammatory diseases such as acne, atopic dermatitis, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, psoriasis, diabetes, diabetic ulcers, chronic wounds, various cancers, obesity and several associated risk factors. Moreover, cutting-edge research utilizing physiologically attainable doses in appropriate in vitro and preclinical model systems have provided some mechanistic insights on their benefits. Additionally, validating the health beneficial effects of nutraceuticals or pharmaceuticals and the detailed understanding of their intake, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, dose-response relationship and efficacy are thought-provoking, having complex relations, and such studies are warranted.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to update knowledge vis-à-vis the role of bioactive natural products from plants and dietary sources and synthetic scaffold compounds on human health and diseases such as the skin, other epithelial tissues like the breast, and other organ system diseases to shed light on the global relevance of scientific research findings on their usages. This may range from human health promotion, disease prevention and treatment, to reduction of adverse side effects, misuse and purposeless spending.

To help bridge the current knowledge gap, this Special Issue of Nutrients invites submission of manuscripts describing original research, communication, legislative documentations or quality reviews of scientific literature in skin and other organs’ health promotion and disease prevention and treatment. These conditions may include, but are not limited to, infection, oxidative stress, chronic inflammatory diseases including skin conditions such as acne, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, diabetic wounds and various kind of cancers. Submissions addressing a broad range of topics, including studies covering bioavailability, understanding physiological functional processes, molecular targets, pathways and mechanisms of action from in vitro, preclinical animal models, human population and dietary intervention studies to impacts on human health, disease prevention and management, and advice on intake and usage, and their outcomes are welcome.

We look forward to your exciting submissions.

Dr. Felicite Noubissi-Kamdem
Dr. Anthony L. Walker
Dr. Jean Christopher Chamcheu
Guest Editors

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• acne, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis
• antioxidants and phenolic compounds
• breast cancer
• chronic human diseases
• bioavailability and bioactivity
• skin beauty, aging and disease
• infection, immunity and inflammation
• cancer
• natural dietary bioactives and food supplement
• nutraceuticals and synthetic bioactive products
• natural dietary product as alternative medicine
• natural/synthetic bioactive agents for chemoprevention
• human intervention trials
• natural products, preclinical and clinical trials
• natural and synthetic antimicrobials and immune-modulatory agents
• phytonutrients for human health and disease