Marine Natural Products with Anti-Aging Activity, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 3044
Editors
Interests: anti-aging; marine biotoxins; mussels; immune responses; storage lipids
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Interests: biology of aging; biogerontology; experimenetal gerontology; geroscience; cellular senescence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Building on the success of our first edition (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/87OS9N2S7J), this Special Issue will showcase advances in discovering, characterizing and translating marine-derived molecules and bioproducts that modulate fundamental mechanisms of aging and age-related pathologies.
We welcome original research, reviews, short communications, methods and perspective articles that focus on the following:
- Elucidate anti-aging mechanisms of marine natural products mapped to established hallmarks (e.g., oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, loss of proteostasis/autophagy, cellular senescence and inflammaging, and ECM remodeling/skin photoaging).
- Integrate multi-omics, chemoinformatics/AI, network pharmacology or synthetic biology to accelerate discovery and sustainable production from marine macro- and micro-organisms.
- Evaluate efficacy across models (cells, invertebrates, fish, rodents, and humans) with standardized readouts of healthspan/lifespan and clinically relevant biomarkers.
- Advance formulation, delivery, pharmacokinetics and safety, bridging laboratory findings to pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and dermocosmetic applications.
- Draw mechanistic insights from long-lived marine species to inspire intervention design.
We particularly encourage submissions that connect a defined marine product to a specific aging determinant, and translational studies addressing age-related diseases.
Dr. Maria Elisa Giuliani
Dr. Marco Malavolta
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- aging
- neuroinflammation
- hallmarks of aging
- cellular senescence
- senolytics
- senomorphics
- mitophagy
- autophagy
- proteostasis
- inflammaging
- NAD+ metabolism
- extracellular matrix
- photoaging
- skin aging
- healthspan
- lifespan
- marine peptides
- phlorotannins
- fucoidans
- carotenoids
- marine polysaccharides
- marine microbes/microalgae
- sustainable bioproduction
- synthetic biology
- dereplication
- network pharmacology
- chemoinformatics
- multi-omics
- drug delivery
- pharmacokinetics
- toxicity
- clinical translation
- nutraceuticals
- cosmeceuticals
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