Relevance of Plant Phytochemicals in the Promotion of Human Health
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 7255
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmacology; toxicology; chemoprevention
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Interests: natural products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A range of evidence has demonstrated that plants perform an important role in the care and improvement of human health. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 80% of the Earth’s inhabitants depend on or have used traditional medicine/complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) for their primary health care needs, conceptualizing TCAM as any practice, knowledge, and belief on health that incorporates medicine based on plants, animals, and/or minerals, spiritual therapies, manual techniques, and exercises applied individually or in combination to maintain wellbeing. Different positive factors generate its continuous acceptance, highlighting its diversity, flexibility, easy access, relatively low cost and, importantly, the presence of relatively low adverse toxic effects in comparison with allopathic medicine, where these effects are frequently attributed to synthetic drugs. An essential part of this beneficial impact is attributed to the presence of phytochemicals or bioactive compounds, classified as terpenoids (carotenoids, sterols), fibers, polysaccharides, saponins, organosulfur compounds (isothiocyanates, indoles), alkaloids, and phenolics compounds (flavonoids, stilbenes, coumarins, tannins, phenolic acids) that jointly or individually have demonstrated the ability to prevent and/or treat different pathologies, including cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, hypertension, atherosclerosis, chronic respiratory diseases, osteoporosis, and cancer. In recent decades, its popularization and scientific interest has grown, with the purpose to identify new phytochemicals, study their protective and/or therapeutic effects, and establish the mechanisms of action involved, especially those related to their antioxidant capacity. The present Special Issue of Plants aims to give a forum to researchers and academicians to show their interest in the mentioned fields. Therefore, please accept a cordial invitation to submit original research articles or comprehensive review articles to be included in this Special Issue.
Dr. Eduardo Osiris Madrigal-Santillán
Dr. Jeannett Alejandra Izquierdo-Vega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plants
- pharmacology
- toxicology
- pharmacognosy
- natural products
- phytochemicals
- chemopreventive mechanisms
- antioxidant agents
- oxidative stress
- toxicological genetics
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