Bioactive Antioxidants from Natural and Synthetic Sources: Isolation, Analysis, and Therapeutic Potential
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: spectroscopy; biochemistry; environmental chemistry
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Special Issue Information
The therapeutic potential of bioactive antioxidants depends not only on their chemical activity, but also on their effective isolation from natural sources or synthesis, accurate analytical characterization, and demonstrated biological efficacy in physiological systems.
Recent advances in this field focus on three key aspects—innovative isolation techniques to obtain high-purity antioxidants from complex natural matrices, advanced analytical methods for the characterization of antioxidant structures and activities, and cutting-edge approaches to evaluate their therapeutic potential in disease prevention and treatment.
We invite researchers to contribute original research articles or comprehensive reviews to this Special Issue, which will highlight current developments in obtaining, analyzing, and applying bioactive antioxidants from both natural and synthetic sources.
Contributions may cover diverse aspects including novel extraction/synthesis methods for bioactive antioxidants, advanced analytical characterization techniques, mechanistic studies of therapeutic effects in cellular/animal models, as well as clinical applications and translational research.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Jolanta Flieger
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bioactive antioxidants
- Therapeutic potential
- Isolation techniques
- Extraction methods
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