Exploring Amazon Bioactives: Novel Anti-Pathogen Therapeutics and Pharmaceutical Breakthroughs
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 April 2026 | Viewed by 2102
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Amazonian bio-compounds; resistant infectious agents; phenols; antioxidant activity; antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory; cytotoxicity, genotoxicity; animal toxicity
Interests: thermochemical conversion of ligno-cellulosic biomass to produce bio-oils rich in phenolic compounds with biological (antioxidant activity, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory) activity; biomass-to-energy; bio-oil to fuels
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Interests: experimental, preclinical or clinical research of plants; chemically characterized extracts, fractions, oils and isolated products on biological activity; pharmacological, toxicological and immunomodulatory properties
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of this Special Issue, “Exploring Amazon Bioactives: Novel Anti-Pathogen Therapeutics and Pharmaceutical Breakthroughs”, is to present a collection of scientific manuscripts focusing the recent advances in prospection for Amazonian bio-compounds with potential action against emerging and/or resistant infectious agents to obtain pharmaceutical products. Topics of interest include but are not limited to chemical, biochemical and pharmacological properties and mechanisms of action of phytochemicals on pathogens such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa, among other pathogenic agents, in order to advance the discovery of new molecules with potential to generate new pharmaceutical products, conversion of biomass into bio-oils rich in phenolic compounds, physical–chemical properties and chemical composition of bio-oils.
Prof. Dr. Marta Chagas Monteiro
Prof. Dr. Nélio Teixeira Machado
Dr. Pedro Roosevelt Romão
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste biomass
- thermochemical processes
- bio-oils
- phenolic compounds
- anti-inflammatory actions
- antiviral mechanisms
- cancer
- cytokine/chemokine regulation
- inflammatory conditions/diseases
- innate immunity
- immune response
- immunomodulatory and anti-infective effects
- immunomodulation
- immunotoxicology
- medicinal chemistry
- neglected tropical diseases
- parasitic disease
- purinergic signaling
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