Natural Products: Biological, Antioxidant Properties and Health Effects—4th Edition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 3497
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutritional physiology; natural antioxidants; selenium and selenoproteins; elemental metabolomics; molecular metabolism
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Dear Colleagues,
Our prior Special Issues on “Natural Products: Biological, Antioxidant Properties and Health Effects” (Volumes 1–3), which were included in the Antioxidants volumes for 2022, 2023, and 2024, were successful collections of research and review articles that attracted over 160 submissions. With a follow-up Special Issue for 2025, we hope to further explore the constantly evolving research area of the biological and antioxidant activities of natural products as well as their implications on human and animal health.
Many antioxidants with radical scavenging and reducing properties are abundant in natural products, i.e., medicinal and aromatic plants, algae, foods, feeds, etc. Polyphenols, terpenoids, carbohydrates and their derivatives, and constituents of essential oils are only some examples of substances that can mitigate oxidative damage. They act on redox-sensitive transcription factors to reduce oxidative stress in vivo by quenching radical species, peroxides, and promoters of oxidative processes.
Considerable evidence has accumulated to indicate that incorporating naturally occurring antioxidant compounds into food or animal feed can improve overall product quality, extend shelf life, and reduce oxidation. Recent studies have also focused on natural bioactive compounds as a means of combating pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that are resistant to conventional drugs and seriously threaten human health and global healthcare systems. Additionally, using these supplements may reduce cellular oxidative stress, which has been connected to cardiovascular, neurological, and inflammatory disorders as well as certain cancer types.
Because natural goods can have so many positive effects, studying their bioactive ingredients is always appealing. Furthermore, it is crucial to keep in mind that agricultural leftovers and waste materials can also be a great source of antioxidants.
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit your research findings to the the fourth volume of this Special Issue, which aims to gather original research papers, reviews, clinical trials, and meta-analyses covering every facet of the biological properties, applications, and health effects of antioxidants derived from natural products.
The following topics are particularly encouraged: new uses of antioxidants and antimicrobials in food and feed science; and plant antioxidants and natural products that increase antioxidant capacity through technological, agricultural, analytical, biochemical, molecular, or analytical methods.
Please take note that chemical characterization employing analytical techniques including HPLC, MS, LC-MS, HPLC-MS, ICP-MS, and NMR should be incorporated into studies of complex mixtures of natural products.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Evangelos Zoidis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- algal antioxidants
- agricultural by-products
- algae
- bioactive compounds
- cancer
- cardiovascular diseases
- essential oils
- inflammatory diseases
- marine organisms
- metabolic diseases
- oxidative stress
- phytochemicals
- polyphenols
- radical scavenging
- shelf life
- waste products
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