Quality Control of Herbal Products: Secondary Metabolites as Special Markers
A special issue of Scientia Pharmaceutica (ISSN 2218-0532).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 January 2020) | Viewed by 601
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemistry of natural products; analytical methods; NMR; GC-MS; terpenes (iridoids, sesquiterpene lactones, and triterpenes); phenolics (flavonoids, phenols, phenolic acids, and lignans); essential oils; ethnopharmacology; history of pharmacy
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, it is considered highly beneficial for human health to use herbal products due to their remarkable medicinal properties. As a result, the commercial demand for such products is continuously on the rise both in the European and in the global market. Cultivations through various methods are employed to address this demand, as they successfully meet the need for the mass production of plant material and the demand of pharmaceutical companies for standardized plants with known concentrations of bioactive ingredients. Unfortunately, it has been observed that adulterated and low-quality plant material, as well as preparations without certification, are found in the market.
This Special Issue concerns investigations focused on the authenticity of plant material with the help of its chemical fingerprint.
Prof. Dr. Helen D. Skaltsa
Prof. Dr. Anastasia Karioti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- herbal products
- adulterations
- quality control
- quantification
- secondary metabolites
- markers
- HPLC
- LC-MS
- NMR
- statistics
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