Natural Products and Compounds in Anticancer Drug Discovery
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural and synthetic bioactive compounds; mechanisms of anticancer activity; nuclear receptor modulators; nanoparticle-based drug carriers; metronomic anticancer therapy; combination anticancer therapy; high-performance liquid chromatography of bioactive compounds
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Dear Colleagues,
Nature is an invaluable source of bioactive compounds for preventing and treating malignant diseases. Millions of years of plant evolution have led to the natural biosynthesis of plenty of substances with antitumor activity. Despite the discovery of many natural anticancer drugs, treating malignant diseases still requires creating more efficient, less toxic, tumor-selective medicines.
This Special Issue will cover progress in the development of natural products and compounds with antitumor properties. This includes uses of known, rare, or endemic plant species as new sources of anticancer compounds; developing modern chromatography methods and extraction technologies for the recovery of new plant-derived antitumor metabolites; and nanotechnology-based natural anticancer drug products. Investigations on the various cellular mechanisms driving the activities of natural products and compounds, including pathways for apoptosis induction, as well as new viewpoints on the mechanisms driving the activities and drug–protein interactions of known anticancer plant products and substances, are also welcome.
Dr. Diana I. Ivanova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antitumor plant compounds
- antitumor plant-derived products
- cellular pathways for natural drug apoptosis induction
- chromatography of antitumor plant metabolites
- modern technologies for recovery of plant anticancer substances
- nanotechnology based natural anticancer drug products
- plant-derived antitumor drug-protein interactions
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