Natural Pharmacons: Biologically Active Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3714
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer and aging is a serious problem worldwide and leads to a significant threat to human health. Cancer incidence also has a substantial impact on fast aging. There has been continued progress in anticancer and antiaging agent development during the last few years.
Biologically active plant-derived pharmaceuticals were a novel target for such new agent development. Plant-derived pharmaceutical activates oxidative stress, apoptosis and endoplasmic reticulum stress to inhibit cell proliferation, migration and invasion in cancer and, at the same time, delay the aging process by inhibiting such activation in normal cells. Interestingly, the plant-derived pharmaceutical can work well in cancer and normal cells to induce anticancer and antiaging activity by switching their role in particular cells with different events.
This Special Issue on “Natural Pharmacons: Biologically Active Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals” aims to be an open forum where researchers may share their experiences and findings in this promising field. It is focused on the comprehensive and critical examination of current and emerging research on the design and development of advanced anticancer or antiaging agents from plant-derived pharmaceuticals and their application to experimental and clinical therapeutics. Contributions to this issue, in the form of both original research and review articles, may cover all aspects of the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents for cancer with antiaging properties for prolonging the overall survival of cancer patients using the latest biotechnology, pharmacology, and genetic engineering techniques in cellular and animal model.
Dr. Sreenivasan Sasidharan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anticancer
- antiaging
- apoptosis
- oxidative stress
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- antioxidant
- medicinal plants
- polyphenol
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