Anti-Inflammatory Agents from Natural Antioxidants: Discovery, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editor
Interests: anti-inflammatory; antioxidants; natural products
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Dear Colleagues,
Oxidative stress caused by external stimuli is balanced with the antioxidant mechanism in the human body, leading to an appropriate level of inflammatory response, which act as a defense mechanism in the body against external stimuli. However, excess oxidative stress caused by the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that exceeds the capacity of antioxidants to counteract the deleterious effects of ROS ultimately induces excessive inflammatory responses, leading to an increase in risks, including chronic inflammatory diseases, cancers, aging. Therefore, research on candidate substances that can suppress the production of ROS and inflammatory reactions is being actively conducted. Synthetic drugs are widely used due to their superior efficacy and economic efficiency, while safety concerns call for the development of natural antioxidants.
This Special Issue provides an update on the beneficial effects of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents from natural products and uses various in vitro and in vivo disease models to represent the underlying molecular mechanisms of their biological activity. We invite you to submit your latest research results or review articles.
Potential topics include the isolation of compounds from natural products; the analysis of natural products, and the elucidation of their regulatory mechanism of actions for suppressing oxidative stress and inflammatory responses; and health-enhancing effects of natural products on chronic-oxidative-stress-related and inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Young-Chang Cho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- oxidative stress
- inflammatory responses
- antioxidant
- anti-inflammation
- anti-aging
- anticancer
- natural products
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