Special Issue "Marine Compounds and Inflammation"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Agostino Casapullo
Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
E-Mail: casapullo@unisa.it
Phone: +39 089 969243
Fax: +39 089 969602
Interests: marine natural products; structure elucidation; chemical proteomics; target discovery; bioorganic chemistry

Dear Collegues,

Oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and marine organisms comprise approximately a half of the total biodiversity. Marine natural products possess a unique chemical diversity and have evolved for optimal interactions with biological macromolecules, constituting an enormous library of novel compounds with wide biological properties useful in the drug discovery process.

The search for new drugs is currently moving toward a rationalization in which chemistry and pharmacology are joined into a targeted approach to drug discovery, focused on specific diseases and molecular targets. In this context, inflammation is increasingly considered a crucial biological pathway, due to its involvement in a large number of diseases such as allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, atherosclerosis, and in particular in the initiation and progression cancer, strictly implicated in many inflammatory processes such as increased angiogenesis and DNA synthesis, genomic damage, cellular proliferation, disruption of DNA repair pathways, and inhibition of apoptosis. On this basis, the exploration of marine sources in search of novel chemical scaffolds for the treatment of inflammatory-driven diseases represents a key pharmacological goal.

As the Guest Editor, I would like to invite scientists to report their findings in the field of marine anti-inflammatory compounds.

Prof. Dr. Agostino Casapullo
Guest Editor

Submission

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• marine natural products
• inflammation
• transcription factors
• cytokines
• chemokines
• drug discovery
• anti-inflammatory effects
• bioactive compounds
• marine pharmaceuticals
• cancer
• autoimmune diseases
• intracellular signaling pathways