Molecular Mechanisms of Bioactive Nutrients Promoting Health Through Gut Microbiota: 3rd Edition
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 February 2026 | Viewed by 3554
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Interests: phytochemicals; natural products; functional foods; human health
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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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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of the 2020 Special Issue “Molecular Mechanisms of Bioactive Nutrients Promoting Health Through Gut Microbiota” and the 2023 Special Issue “Molecular Mechanisms of Bioactive Nutrients Promoting Health Through Gut Microbiota 2.0”.
It is becoming clear that the human gut microbiota plays a critical role in human health. The human gut microbiota, depending on dietary intake and consequently nutrient availability within the gut, can produce either harmful metabolites, leading to human diseases, or beneficial compounds that protect against host diseases. Abnormal gut microbiota can produce endotoxins, which enhance chronic inflammation and metabolic disorders. Modification of gut microbiota by bioactive food components to balance its compositions has grown to be seen as a promising strategy for the management of colon health and host health. Bioactive components can be obtained from dietary sources designed and characterized to meet human nutritional and immunological needs as well as balance the gut microbiota. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect the latest research findings on the interrelationship among bioactive food components (such as phytochemicals and complex carbohydrates), gut microbiota, colon stem cells, and chronic metabolic diseases. Health benefits of small molecular phytochemicals and large biopolymer polysaccharides have been reported in different disciplines; however, it is not clear how gut microbiota metabolize these dietary phytochemicals and polymers; it is also not clear how the gut metabolites from these dietary compounds further affect the host.
Prof. Dr. Baojun Xu
Dr. Matteo Bordiga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- complex carbohydrates
- gut microbiota
- prebiotics
- probiotics
- inflammation
- molecular mechanisms
- human health
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