Recent Research into Oxidative Stress and Toxicity of Chemicals and Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Drugs Toxicity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 February 2025 | Viewed by 777
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oxidative stress; nitric oxide; antioxidants; free radicals; malaria; Amazon medicinal plants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although the use of plants for medicinal purposes is as old as the history of humanity, we have not yet been able to systematically evaluate the potential uses of our planet's biodiversity to identify its numerous applications for improving the quality of life, especially for the development of new natural medicines that present the desired therapeutic effect but have no side effects often found in synthetic drugs. In addition, especially among antibiotics and antiparasitics, resistance to conventional drugs has become increasingly frequent, which drives us in the search for new therapeutic alternatives. However, there is limited scientific knowledge about several species with medicinal purposes and even less knowledge about their mechanisms of action and, especially, about the potential toxic effects of their use. Thus, this Special Issue is intended to present innovative research on the use of new medicinal plants and the involvement of oxidative stress in the underlying mechanisms of toxicity induced by chemicals or medicinal plants.
We invite submissions that cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- New plants with medicinal potential;
- Mechanisms of action of medicinal plants, mainly involving antioxidants or oxidative stress;
- Therapeutic use of synthetic chemicals derived from plants or substances isolated from plants;
- Acute, semi-chronic, or chronic toxicity studies of medicinal plants, synthetic chemical substances derived from plants, or substances isolated from plants.
Prof. Dr. Sandro Percário
Dr. Maria Fâni Dolabela
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- free radicals
- oxidative stress
- antioxidants
- medicinal plants
- natural products
- chemical toxicity
- plant toxicity
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