Marine Drugs for Cancer Disorders: Current and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanoparticles; drug delivery; marine drugs; cancer diagnosis and therapy; photodynamic therapy
Interests: polymeric constructs; bioinspired delivery systems; inorganic nanoarchitectures; developing altered inorganic frameworks; in-situ pharmacokinetics; cancer therapy; photodynamic/photothermal activation; multidrug resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions (research, reviews, and perspectives) on the topic of “Marine Drugs for Cancer Disorders: Current and Future Perspectives”. Various marine plants, microorganisms, and animals have been recognized to possess precious resources with medicinal properties, containing small and macro-sized molecules of new active compounds. Several reports have demonstrated that the extracted compounds from marine organisms possess exceptional nutritional and medicinal values. Despite their excellent properties, applicability is often limited due to poor bioavailability. The use of nanotechnology substantially increases the food and medicinal values of marine natural products, which are of particular interest in biomedical applications. The encapsulation of marine natural products in organic or inorganic nanoparticles can improve the bioavailability of marine drugs and further solve the low solubility of hydrophobic drugs. Marine drugs can be encapsulated in biopolymer, liposome, and lipid nanoparticles to improve their release profile and pharmacokinetics. Along this line, marine drugs can be incorporated in mesoporous silica, layered double hydroxide, and gold, as well as iron-oxide-based nanoparticles, to achieve controlled release of drugs and improve drug delivery efficiency for synergistic diagnostic and therapeutic applications. This Special Issue will offer an overview of the latest applications of nano-marine drugs for cancer-related disorders. In this Special Issue, we anticipate submissions demonstrating excellent biological activities from in vitro or in vivo studies of nano-marine drugs to overcome the hurdles of traditional drug delivery methods in treating cancer diseases.
Prof. Dr. Chia-Hung Lee
Dr. Ranjith Kumar Kankala
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine drugs
- natural products
- nanoformulations
- bioavailability
- controlled drug release
- cancer therapy
- drug resistance
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