Natural Antioxidants and Aquatic Animal Health—2nd Edition
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: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 1457
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Interests: aquatic animals; pharmacology; toxicology
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Dear Colleagues,
Our previous edition received a large number of submissions. Building on this success, I am pleased to announce the second edition of our Special Issue entitled “Natural Antioxidants and Aquatic Animal Health—2nd Edition".
Numerous medicinal plants and their extracts have been confirmed to possess antioxidant properties. They are widely used as drugs or feed additives due to their abundant extraordinary beneficial health effects for humans and animals. In aquaculture, farmed animals are invariably exposed to numerous stressors, such as high stocking densities, temperature fluctuations, and pathogenic infections. To counter these stress-induced adverse effects, medicinal plants and their extracts have increasingly been recognized as eco-friendly and effective alternatives to synthetic chemicals. Over the past few decades, these plants and their derivatives have been commonly used as dietary additives in aquaculture to alleviate oxidative stress, promote growth, and reduce the incidence of diseases. Medicinal plants, rich in various active substances such as polysaccharides, alkaloids, tannins, saponins, glycosides, flavonoids, steroids, and essential oils, have been proven to possess significant antioxidant properties. The selection of natural antioxidants or these medicinal plants will thus be pivotal in future aquaculture development. Future research will also focus on the antioxidant defense mechanisms within aquatic animals and on elucidating the links between natural antioxidants and the health of aquatic animals.
In this Special Issue, we aim to discuss the relationship natural antioxidants and aquatic animal health. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) the discovery of new natural antioxidants; 2) the key mechanisms through which natural antioxidants impact the health of aquatic animals; 3) the anti-stress and disease resistance mechanisms inherent in aquatic animals; and 4) the influence of natural antioxidants on aquatic species based on multi-omics analyses.
Dr. Rui Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural antioxidants
- oxidative stress
- medicinal plants
- aquatic animals
- feed additives
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