Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Efficacy of Essential Oils
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant-Derived Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2025) | Viewed by 895
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural compounds; essential oils and plant extracts; extraction methods and structure elucidation; factors affecting essential oil yield and composition; biological activities research into natural products; influence of secondary metabolites on ecological interactions; medicinal and aromatic plants; pharmacognosy, phytotherapy and ethnobotany
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the enormous progress achieved in the field of chemical synthesis and the existence of a large number of drugs, plants remain an inexhaustible source of new bioactive molecules. Of particular interest are essential oils; these complex mixtures of terpenes and phenylpropanoids are often the basis of the traditional uses of many aromatic plants and represent a source of agents with antimicrobial potential. Although they contain 1-3 main components, essential oils are usually combinations of numerous constituents with different properties and unpredictable synergistic and/or antagonistic modes of action, thus offering opportunities for the development of novel strategies to treat infectious diseases. This is of great significance in the context of contemporary and increasing resistance to synthetic antibiotics. On the other hand, apart from phenolic compounds derived from plants, essential oils draw attention in terms of antioxidant activity. From the aspect of increasingly common diseases that are directly or indirectly related to oxidative stress, research in this direction is being conducted more frequently.
This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles that provide relevant information on the development of extraction and characterization strategies and assess essential oils that show signs of potential antimicrobial and antioxidant activities and applications in pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Mijat Božović
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- essential oils
- chemical analysis
- extraction methods
- antimicrobial activity
- antioxidant potential
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