Plant Product- and/or Synthetic Compound-Based Drug Development for Livestock Disease Treatment
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 221
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; computational chemistry; QSAR; molecular modelling; molecular simulations; virtual screening; in silico ADME analysis; drug design and development
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2. Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir 35620, Türkiye
3. Medicinal and Biological Chemistry Science Farm Joint Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 862-0976, Japan
4. Department of Drug Discovery, Science Farm Ltd., Kumamoto 862-0976, Japan
Interests: structure-based drug discovery; molecular simulations; drug repositioning; structural biology; molecular modelling; QSAR; virtual screening
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Interests: livestock health and management; drug design and development; nanomedicine; flow cytometry; molecular biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are both similarities and differences between animal and human drug development processes. Although the pharmaceutical industry is generally devoted to human healthcare, the value of veterinary pharmaceutical is undisputed.
Some drugs are used for stopping the onset and progression of disease, whereas some of them are administered for growth promotion, particularly in food animals. These drugs can cause adverse effects to both medicated animals and the people who consume them.
Livestock production is a very important means of livelihood for people in the world. There are several pathogenic and metabolic disorders that affect these animals severely, threatening animal health and strength of the economy. In general, antimicrobials are commonly used for prophylactic and curative purposes. The excessive use of antimicrobials in livestock can transmit to people, resulting in the emergence of resistant bacteria. As such, it is an unmet need to discover new therapeutics in order to control disorders in livestock.
Natural products are great sources for the development of new therapeutic candidates as well as synthetic compounds.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to discover new therapeutics for the treatment of livestock diseases. It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews, which will be published in this Special Issue titled “Plant Product- and/or Synthetic Compound-Based Drug Development for Livestock Disease Treatment”.
Dr. Belgin Sever
Dr. Halil İbrahim Ciftci
Prof. Dr. Mihai Cosmin Cenariu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viral diseases
- bacterial diseases
- fungal diseases
- protozoan diseases
- metabolic disorders
- reproductive disorders
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