Role of Natural Product in Cardiovascular Disease—2nd Edition
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 585
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Interests: vascular biology; cardiovascular disease; metabolic diseases; evaluation of bioactive agents from natural sources
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Dear Colleagues,
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), generally referring to a group of disorders of the heart and vessels as well as their associated adverse conditions, has been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The majority of CVD is caused by physiological or metabolic risk factors that can be controlled, modified or treated, such as hyperlipidemia, blood viscosity, atherosclerosis, hypertension, obesity and diabetes. Currently, the common therapeutical medication strategies of CVD have largely depended on lipid-lowering statins, blood thinners, and beta blockers. However, some patients do not achieve ideal effects from these traditional therapeutics. Therefore, there is still an unmet medical need to seek new therapeutic modalities for CVD treatment.
Natural products have been emerged as a novel source of leading compounds for cardiovascular drug discovery, because of their broad spectrum of pharmacological and biological activities, including lipid-lowering, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic and immunomodulatory effects. Thus, in this Special Issue, we invite full-length research and review articles associated with the biological effect of natural products in preventing/counteracting cardiovascular diseases. This special issue only includes research “with defined molecular compound”.
The proposed topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Clinical or preclinical studies investigating natural products in the treatment of CVD;
- The role of natural products in preventing/counteracting vascular remodeling;
- The role of natural products in preventing/counteracting cardiac metabolic dysfunction;
- The use of natural products as leading compounds in drug discovery for the treatment of CVD;
- Pathogenesis and novel risk factors of CVD;
- Potential therapeutic targets of CVD.
Dr. Jian Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nature products
- phytochemicals
- biological and pharmacological activity
- cardiovascular disease (CVD) pathogenesis of CVD
- risk factors of CVD
- metabolic symptom
- clinical or preclinical studies
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