Marine Bioactive Substances: From By-Products to Innovative Applications
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: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 794
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food science; food flavor; seafood processing
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine bioactive substances have emerged as a treasure trove of novel functional components. Peptides, polysaccharides, lipids, enzymes, and other secondary metabolites exhibit remarkable bioactivities such as antioxidant, immunomodulatory, anticancer, and metabolic regulatory properties. Particularly in the fishery and aquaculture industries, a large amount of by-products (e.g., fish skin, fish scales, viscera, minced meat, shells, and seaweed residues) are often discarded, which not only wastes resources but may also trigger environmental problems. The development of advanced extraction and modification technologies will help promote future development and application of marine bioactive substances in functional foods, pharmaceutical products, and cosmetics, and presenting a path to the sustainable development of marine resources.
This Special Issue invites relevant original research papers and review papers that focus on the extraction, purification, biological activity, and function of natural bioactive substances from marine biological resources, aiming to deeply understand the research concepts and latest achievements in marine bioactive substances.
Dr. Wenzheng Shi
Prof. Dr. Dandan Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- biological activity
- peptide
- protein hydrolysates
- extract methods
- molecular structures
- functional characteristics
- by-product utilization
- bioaccessibility and bioavailability
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