Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of a third volume of “Quantitative Identification and Action-Mechanisms of Anti-cancer and Anti-inflammatory Natural Compounds 3.0”, published in IJMS. It is our hope that this volume will inherit the outstanding success of our previous Special Issue. Despite 32 outstanding papers being published in the second volume of the SI, it remains possible to of publish further high-quality work. We sincerely encourage all researchers in related fields with an interest in this Special Issue to contribute their original research. Many natural substances have been discovered which possess pharmacological activity, especially of anticancer and anti-inflammatory varieties. Despite those discoveries, there remain limitations to making those for drugs and health supplements since their efficacy when combined the appropriate disease animal model, identification of their molecular mechanisms, and quantification of exposures and pharmacological behaviors must be validated. This Special Issue aims to cover a selection of research papers and reviews that expand knowledge from recently discovered natural resources with anticancer and anti-inflammatory activity to incorporate new quantitative identification of natural resources in the body. In addition, new evaluation methods for the above fields will also be covered. Therefore, we sincerely welcome not only studies on searching novel natural compounds with anticancer and anti-inflammatory activity, but also studies on the evaluation of efficacy of natural compounds, elucidation of mechanisms of action, identification of molecular targets, enhancement of bioactivity via derivatization or pharmaceutical formulation, and the new characterization of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of known bioactive natural compounds.

Prof. Dr. Hye Gwang Jeong
Prof. Dr. Hwi-Yeol Yun
Prof. Dr. Hangun Kim
Guest Editors

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• anticancer
• anti-inflammatory
• natural compounds
• efficacy
• mechanism of action
• molecular target
• bioactivity
• pharmacokinetics
• pharmacodynamics