Antimicrobial and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Bioactive Compounds Extracted from Plants, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 61
Special Issue Editors
2. AquaValor—Centro de Valorização e Transferência de Tecnologia da Água—Associação, Rua Dr. Júlio Martins n.º 1, 5400-342 Chaves, Portugal
Interests: biological activities of natural products; chemical characterization of biocompounds; multidrug-resistant pathogens; food and chemical toxicology; nutraceutical and medicinal value of agro-industrial by-products
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Interests: bioactivity; chemical characterization of natural products; identification, quantification, separation, and recovery of bioactive compounds from different food and agro-food byproducts; experimental design applied to extraction and process optimization of natural products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first volume of the Special Issue “Antimicrobial and Anti-inflammatory Activity of Bioactive Compounds Extracted from Plants” was published in 2024. It is a successful issue with 11 published papers, which has encouraged us to open a second volume on the same topic.
As a continuation of the Special Issue published in 2024, this second edition will focus on the search for new bioactive (food or medicinal) compounds in plants; mechanisms of action; characterization of their biological properties, including (but not limited to) methods for their extraction, purification, comprehensive profiling characterization, and quantification; beneficial biological properties that could potentially contribute to functional food and nutraceutical development; functional properties such as antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties, among others; in vitro and in vivo model systems; clinical investigations; and biotechnological applications of plants, including as nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. Original research papers and review articles in these areas are welcome.
Manuscripts reporting on the screening of crude plant extracts will largely not be considered for publication in this Special Issue. Manuscripts dealing with zone-of-inhibition assays will not normally be considered for publication; biological activities should be further quantified by MIC, IC50, or other statistical determinations.
Dr. Juliana Garcia
Dr. Irene Gouvinhas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plants
- phytochemicals
- bioactive compounds
- biological properties
- natural products
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