Pharmacological Activities of Secondary Metabolites and Derivates of Medicinal Plants Around the World, 2nd Edition
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: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 2649
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmacognosy of Mexican medicinal plants; diabetes mellitus; cancer; diarrhea; molecular docking; secondary metabolites
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Dear Colleagues,
Since ancient times, our ancestors have sought ways to remedy the ills and diseases that afflicted them by experimenting with the use of all kinds of substances, whether of plant, animal, or mineral origin. It is estimated that approximately between 64% and 80% of the world's population use medicinal plants to treat their health problems. In this sense, medicinal plants have been the source of many secondary metabolites to which numerous pharmacological activities have been attributed, in many cases giving rise to pharmacological treatments with important activity, which are currently used in therapeutics. Considering the above, the objective of this Special Issue is to encourage researchers to share their findings on medicinal plants from different regions of the world and the secondary metabolites isolated from them, with a focus on the search for new pharmacological treatments that can be applied to treat diseases that are of importance worldwide. Importantly, the exact active ingredient of the plant extract must be reported in the submitted research manuscript, since papers describing the effects of mixed extraction from plants will not be accepted.
This Special Issue is led by Dr. Fernando Calzada and assisted by our GE's Assistant Editor, Dr. Miguel Valdes (<valdesguevaramiguel@gmail.com>, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Escuela Superior de Medicina, México).
More published papers could be found in the closed Special Issue: Pharmacological Activities of Secondary Metabolites and Derivates of Medicinal Plants around the World.
Dr. Fernando Calzada
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- secondary metabolites
- medicinal chemistry
- worldwide traditional medicine
- isolation and identification of secondary metabolites
- experimental studies
- photochemistry
- pharmacognosy
- medicinal plants
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