Biomedical Applications of Bioactive Ingredients from Natural Products—2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical & Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
3. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: pharmacoepidemiology; neuropsychopharmacology; addiction medicine; psychoactive substances; ethnopharmacology; natural substances; herbal medicine
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Interests: public health; hygiene; medicinal chemistry; natural products; antioxidants; pharmacoepidemiology; nutritional epidemiology; structure-activity relationships; drug utilisation; risk minimization and communication
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products have historically made a big contribution to the evolution of drug discovery, and bioactive ingredients and their structural analogues have a key role in preventing and treating non-communicable and chronic diseases—all of which has accelerated scientific interest in this field. Modern methods for the evaluation and manipulation of bioactive ingredients from natural products have enabled a better understanding of their mechanisms of action and a clearer view of their potential in medicinal applications.
In this Special Issue, we investigate closely the recent perspectives on the biomedical applications of bioactive ingredients and their structural analogues from natural products.
A particular focus of this Special Issue will be to summarize the recent technological developments that have enabled natural product-based drug discovery, highlight potential applications in the prevention and treatment of pathological conditions, discuss key challenges in identifying and establishing biological actions, and communicate the opportunities that stem from current research.
Dr. Georgia Eirini Deligiannidou
Dr. Christos Kontogiorgis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- pure compounds
- encapsulation
- antioxidant
- anti-inflammatory
- nanoparticles
- bioactive compounds
- in vitro
- in vivo
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