Molecular Insights into Animal Nutrition: Oxidative Stress, Polyphenols and Functional Feed Materials
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: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 171
Special Issue Editors
Interests: toxicology; animal nutrition; oxidative stress; reactive oxygen species; biochemistry
Interests: antioxidant activity; functional foods; toxicology; redox nutrition; antioxidant administration
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Dear Colleagues,
Animal nutrition plays a crucial role in maintaining animal health, productivity, and physiological balance. Recent advances in molecular biology, biochemistry, and omics technologies have significantly improved our understanding of how nutrients and bioactive dietary compounds regulate metabolic pathways and cellular responses in animals. In particular, oxidative stress and the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as key mechanisms linking nutrition with cellular function, immune responses, and overall physiological status.
Dietary strategies, including the use of functional feed additives, have attracted considerable attention as tools to modulate oxidative balance and improve animal performance and health. Among these, plant-derived polyphenolic compounds have been widely studied due to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cytoprotective properties. These bioactive molecules can influence multiple molecular pathways, including antioxidant defense systems, metabolic regulation, and cellular signaling processes.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Molecular Insights into Animal Nutrition: Oxidative Stress, Polyphenols and Functional Feed Materials”.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the molecular mechanisms underlying animal nutrition, with particular emphasis on oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species, and the role of bioactive dietary compounds such as polyphenols. The topic is closely aligned with the scope of the journal, which focuses on molecular and biochemical mechanisms in biological systems. Understanding how nutrients and functional feed additives affect molecular pathways is essential for improving animal health, productivity, and sustainability in modern animal production systems.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Molecular mechanisms of nutrient metabolism in animals
- Oxidative stress and antioxidant defense systems
- Role of reactive oxygen species in animal physiology
- Polyphenolic compounds as functional feed additives
- Nutrigenomics and molecular responses to dietary interventions
- Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of plant-derived compounds
- Biomarkers of oxidative stress in animal nutrition studies
- Nutritional modulation of cellular signaling pathways
- Interaction between nutrition, metabolism, and immune function
- Nutritional toxicology and dietary contaminants
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sotiria Makri
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Kouretas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal nutrition
- oxidative stress
- reactive oxygen species
- polyphenols
- feed materials
- molecular nutrition
- antioxidant defense
- animal physiology
- nutritional toxicology
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