Phytochemicals as Valuable Tools for Fighting Metabolic Disorders
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2144
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Interests: synthesis of heterocyclic compounds; chemotherapeutics; antioxidants; food-derived bioactive molecules; medicinal chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, phytochemicals have gained increasing attention for their treatment of metabolic disorders. Diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, obesity and metabolic syndrome are the main examples of these disorders, which are widely prevalent in developed countries and are often associated with the risk of co-morbidities such as cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Phytochemicals have shown promising effects due to their diverse biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and insulin-sensitising properties, and could thus be useful for prevention or as therapeutic alternatives or adjuvants to approved synthetic drugs. They could also be starting points for the development of new drugs with improved efficacy.
This Special Issue aims to provide original research or reviews on specific plant compounds, their effects on metabolic pathways and their potential in dietary interventions. Identification, characterization, biological evaluation in vivo and in vitro, computational studies, the mechanism of action of phytochemicals and their synthetic analogs with hypoglycemic and/or hypolipidemic activity are topics of interest for this Special Issue to which you are invited to contribute.
Dr. Anna Ramunno
Dr. Francesca Aiello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- metabolic disorders
- obesity
- diabetes
- antioxidants
- therapeutic applications
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