Special Issue "Polysaccharides: Organic Chemistry, Bioactivity and Analysis, including Those from Medicinal Plants and Fungi"

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A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2008)

Special Issue Editor

Guest Editor
Dr. Shao-ping Li
Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau
Website: http://www.umac.mo/icms/staff/alsp_e.html
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Interests: extraction, isolation and determination of active ingredients, especially polysaccharides and volatile compounds, in Chinese medicine; quality control methods, including HPLC, LC-MS, CE, CEC and GC-MS, for Chinese medicine; active ingredients and quality control of cordyceps

Published Papers

Click here to see a list of 12 papers that have been published in this special issue.

Special Issue Information

Important additional information, Open Access:

This special issue will be fully Open Access with publishing fees paid by authors (see http://www.mdpi.org/oaj-supports.htm). Open Access increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations as indicated by several studies. (Added on 9 November 2007)
Leading Papers (most of these are review papers):
  1. Mazumder, S.; Lerouge, P.; Loutelier-Bourhis, C.; Driouich, A.; Ray, B. Structural characterisation of hemicellulosic polysaccharides from Benincasa hispida using specific enzyme hydrolysis, ion exchange chromatography and MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy. Carbohydr. Polym. 2005, 59, 231–238.
  2. Xu, H.; Zhang, Y.Y.; Zhang, J.W.; Chen, D.F.. Int. J. Immunopharmacol. 2007, 7, 175–182.
  3. Omarsdottir, S.; Petersen, B.O.; Paulsen, B.S.; Togola, A.; Duusb, J.; Olafsdottir, E.S. Carbohydr. Res. 2006, 341, 2449–2455.
  4. Jia, L.M.; Liu, L.; Dong, Q.; Fang, J.N.. Carbohydr. Res. 2004, 339, 2667-2671.
  5. Ga, O.G.de; Martıneza, M.; Sanabria, L.; Pinto, G.L.de; Igartuburu, J.M.. Food Hydrocol. 2005, 19, 37–43.
  6. Reis, R.A.; Tischer, C.A.; Gorin, P.A.J.; Iacomini, M.. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2002, 210, 1-5.
  7. Yang, J.H.; Du, Y.M.; Huang, R.H.; Wan, Y.Y.; Li, T.Y.. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2002, 31, 55-62.
  8. Barton, C.J.; Tailford, L.E.; Welchman, H.; Zhang, Z.; Gilbert, H.J.; Dupree, P.; Goubet, F.. Planta 2006, 224, 163–174.
  9. Wang, Q.J.; Fang, Y.Z.. J. Chromatogr. B 2004, 812, 309–324.
  10. Zhang, M.; Cui, S.W.; Cheung, P.C.K.; Wang, Q.. Trends Food Sci. Tech. 2007, 18, 4-19.
  11. Volpi, N.; Maccari, F.. J. Chromatogr. B 2006, 834, 1–13.
  12. Paulsen, B.S.; Olafsdottir, E.S.; Ingolfsdottir, K.. J. Chromatogr. A 2002, 967, 163–171.
  13. Lo, T.C.T.; Jiang, Y.H.; Chao, A.L.J.; Chang, C.A.. Anal. Chimica. Acta 2007, 584, 50–56.
  14. Ban, E.; Choi, O.; Ryu, J.; Yoo, Y.S.. Electrophoresis 2001, 22, 2217–2221.
  15. Hui,C.W.; Di, X.. J. Chromatogr. B 2004, 812, 241–257.
  16. Li, S.P.; Zhang, G.H.; Zeng, Q.; Huang, Z.G.; Wang, Y.T.; Dong, T.T.X.; Tsim, K.W.K.. Phytomedicine 2006, 13, 428-433.
  17. Lin, Z.B.; Zhang, H.N.. Acta. Pharmacol. Sin. 2004, 25, 1387-1395.
  18. Schepetkin, I.A.; Quinn, M.T.. Int. J. Immunopharmacol. 2006, 6, 317– 333.
  19. Chen, J.R.; Hu, T.J.; Zheng, R.L.. Int. J. Immunopharmacol. 2007, 7, 547–553.
  20. Lin, Y.L.; Zhang, L.N.; Chen, L.; Jin, Y.; Zeng, F.B.; Jin, J.; Wan, B.; Cheung, P.C.K.. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2004, 34, 231–236.
Submission

All papers should be submitted to molecules@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed monthly journal published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 800 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (1050 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.).

Keywords

Organic chemistry, Chemical characteristic, Analysis, Medicinal chemistry, Material science, Biomaterials, Bioassay, Pharmacological activity, Medicinal plant, Herb, Herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, Fungus, Mushroom

Last update: 8 June 2009

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