Reprint

Plant Natural Products for Human Health

Edited by
March 2019
514 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03897-712-4 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03897-713-1 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Plant Natural Products for Human Health that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Medicine & Pharmacology
Summary

Plants have served mankind as an important source of foods and medicines. While we all consume plants and their products for nutritional support, a majority of the world population also rely on botanical remedies to meet their health needs, either as their own “traditional medicine” or as “complementary and alternative medicine”. From a pharmaceutical point of view, many compounds obtained from plant sources have long been known to possess bio/pharmacological activities, and historically, plants have yielded many important drugs for human use, from morphine discovered in the early nineteenth century to the more recent paclitaxel and artemisinin. Today, we are witnessing a global resurgence in interest and use of plant-based therapies and botanical products, and natural products remain an important and viable source of lead compounds in many drug discovery programs.

 

This Special Issue on “Plant Natural Products for Human Health” compiles a series of scientific reports to demonstrate the medicinal potentials of plant natural products. It covers a range of disease targets, such as diabetes, inflammation, cancer, neurological disease, cardiovascular disease, liver damage, bacterial, and fungus infection and malarial. These papers provide important insights into the current state of research on drug discovery and new techniques. It is hoped that this Special Issue will serve as a timely reference for researchers and scholars who are interested in the discovery of potentially useful molecules from plant sources for health-related applications.
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Keywords
heat-process; onion; calorie restriction; Amadori rearrangement compounds; hyperglycemia; A549 cells; hinokitiol; MMPs; p53/Bax; antioxidant enzymes; caspases; migration; cannabinoid type 1 receptor; endoplasmic reticulum stress; gluconeogenesis; gomisin N; lipogenesis; insulin resistance; garlic; ischemia; heme oxygenase; reperfusion; heart; Keap1; Nrf2; Neuroprotective; PC12 cells; PhGs; anti-malaria activity; plants; natural products; ethnopharmacology; Plasmodium parasites; copaiba; oleoresin; essential oil; sesquiterpenoids; diterpenoids; biological activity; molecular targets; Astragali Radix; astragaloside IV; genistein; mitochondrial bioenergetics; oxygen consumption rate; natural products; drug design and development; innovation; automation; computational softwares; bioinformatics; precision medicine; omics; global health; sweet orange; bitter orange; neroli; orange petitgrain; mandarin; lemon; lime; grapefruit; bergamot; yuzu; kumquat; cannabigerol; Cannabis sativa; neuroinflammation; oxidative stress; phytocannabinoid; iridoids; nuclear factor-kappaB; mitogen-activated protein kinase; anti-inflammation; Ziziphus jujuba; triterpenic acids; pharmacokinetic study; acute liver injury; Aβ; AD; lychee seed; neuroinflammation; catechin; procyanidin A2; apoptosis; cinnamamides; antistaphylococcal activity; time-kill assay; biofilm; antitubercular activity; MTT assay; antifungal activity; PET inhibition; toxicity; structure–activity relationship; bleeding time; flavonoid; morin hydrate; OH· free radical; platelet activation; protein kinase; thromboembolism; Glycyrrhiza uralensis; prenylated flavonoids; antiproliferation; differentiation; melanoma cell; adjuvant-induced arthritis; arthritis; celastrol; curcumin; dietary supplements; EGCG; green tea; inflammation; liposomes; microbiome; nanoparticles; natural products; resveratrol; rheumatoid arthritis; targeted delivery; traditional medicine; Tripterygium wilfordii; triptolide; Penthorum chinense Pursh; NAFLD; hepatic steatosis; flavonoids; SIRT1; AMPK; dihydromyricetin; myocardial hypertrophy; oxidative stress; sirtuin 3; ginseng; human-hair-follicle dermal papilla cells; WNT/β-catenin; Shh/Gli; TGF-β; BMP/Smad; mouse-hair growth; Panax notoginseng saponins; aspirin; HepaRG cells; herb–drug interactions; P. eryngii; glucans; inflammation; inflammatory bowel disease; medicinal plants; phytochemicals; scoulerine; bergapten; immunomodulator; adjuvant; cytoxicity; dendritic cells; immune modulation; APAP; acetaminophen; hepatotoxicity; hpatoprotection; paracetamol; animals; preclinical studies; natural products; small molecules; phytochemicals; plants; fucoidan; acetaminophen; Nrf2; oxidative stress; hepatotoxicity; plant natural product; drug discovery; human health

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