Health-Promoting Effects of Medicinal and Edible Plants and Their Molecular Mechanism
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 1188
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food science; phytochemicals; nutraceuticals; pharmaceuticals; functional foods; molecular nutrition; cell biology
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Interests: food chemistry; gas chromatography; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; polyphenols; volatile compounds; wine chemistry; extraction; fermentation; prebiotic compounds
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Dear Colleagues,
Many plants are medicinal food homologs that are widely distributed worldwide and have been widely consumed. Medicinal and edible plants are rich in primary metabolites such as protein, dietary fiber, and carbohydrates and contain various secondary metabolites, including polyphenols, flavonoids, saponins, alkaloids, etc. The phytochemicals of medicinal and edible plants have been reported to have a wide range of health-promoting effects, including anti-cancer, anti-obesity, anti-Alzheimer's disease, and more. However, previous studies have not fully identified specific bioactive compounds contributing to health-promoting effects or their underlying molecular mechanisms. In this situation, a Special Issue collecting the latest developments and focusing on medicinal and edible plants' health-promoting effects and their molecular mechanisms will be very attractive to readers.
This Special Issue will provide new insights into medicinal and edible plants' health-promoting effects and molecular mechanisms. We encourage authors to submit original articles based on in vitro, in vivo, clinical trials, and reviews related to this attractive topic.
Prof. Dr. Baojun Xu
Dr. Matteo Bordiga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- edible plants
- health-promoting effect
- molecular mechanism
- phytochemicals
- diseases
- curing targets
- signaling pathway
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