Prevention Effects and Molecular Mechanisms of Dietary Bioactive Compounds Against Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food science; phytochemicals; nutraceuticals; pharmaceuticals; functional foods; molecular nutrition; cell biology
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Dear Colleagues,
Dietary bioactive compounds are a class of compounds derived from dietary sources and have relevant biological activity, especially the source from the food and medicine homology. After these bioactive compounds are ingested through diet or by innovative foods and supplements, they can prevent chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer's through various ways, such as gut microbiota or sugar and lipid metabolism intervention. At present, dietary bioactive compounds include flavonoids, stilbenes, terpenes, alkaloids, saponins, polysaccharides, etc., which have been reported to exhibit prevention effects in different chronic diseases. Moreover, some bioactive compounds that are demonstrated to provide health benefits through diet or after enriched foods, e.g., olive oil with phenolics, sterols, carotenoids, prebiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, and adzuki bean with phenolic acids, proanthocyanidins, flavonoids, and saponins. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of their effect on prevention still need to be fully understood. In this Special Issue, we will collect and summarize the prevention activities of dietary bioactive compounds in different chronic diseases based on the in vitro study, in vivo study, or clinical trial
Prof. Dr. Baojun Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive components
- chronic diseases
- flavonoids
- saponins
- molecular mechanism
- gut microbiota
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