Marine-Derived Compounds Applied in Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 7662
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural products; biomedical applications; drug discovery; anticancer compounds; anti-inflammatory compounds; antimicrobial compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infectious diseases are disorders caused by organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Considering the emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and issues relative to drug resistance, marine organisms are a rich source of novel bioactive leads for the discovery of next-generation antibiotics and/or agents for infectious diseases. There is an urgent need to develop new drugs against viral and bacterial diseases. In particular, the lack of new antibiotics and increase in bacterial resistance to drug treatments needs to be addressed, demanding novel approaches to drug discovery.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Use of marine bioactive compounds for the treatment/prevention of infectious pathologies
- Foods originated marine with antifungal/antibacterial capable of ameliorating infective symptoms
- Theoretical and computational studies of marine bioactive compounds against infectious diseases
- Pharmacological and toxicological effects of marine bioactive compounds: in vitro and in vivo studies of infectious diseases
- Clinical or preclinical studies showing marine bioactive compounds properties in the treatment of infectious diseases
- Technological strategies used to enhance the effects of marine bioactive compounds against infectious diseases.
As a Guest Editor for this Special Issue of Marine Drugs, I cordially invite you to submit original research papers or reviews on the isolation and structure determination, synthesis, and evaluation of novel compounds against bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases, the identification of novel biological targets or therapeutic approaches, or studies about resistance mechanisms and strategies to circumvent them.
Prof. Dr. Hee Jae Shin
Prof. Dr. Seon-Heui Cha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infectious diseases
- marine organisms
- marine natural products
- novel therapeutic agents
- bioactive compounds
- antimicrobial
- antifungal
- antiviral
- anti-protozoal
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