Chemical Composition and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Essential Oils, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The plant kingdom is the main source of chemical diversity from which thousands of organic compounds are produced, including the components of essential oils.

Nature remains the more efficient and imaginative “synthetic chemist”, and this impressive mass of chemical diversity is crucial for the development of a potentially infinite number of new applications in the context of agriculture, food science and pharmacology, including interesting applications of plant essential oils in human health chemoprevention. The control of general and local inflammation is key to the chemo-preventive action of plant products toward several pathologies, and essential oil research plays an important role in this context.

The isolation and the chemical characterization of essential oils from plant species remains a fascinating challenge for natural product researchers.

This Special Issue will mainly address, but not exclusively, recent research concerning new applications related to the anti-inflammatory activity of essential oils and the investigation of the mechanism of action of the whole complex mixture, as well as of the pure components both at post-transcriptional and post-translational levels. Research that clarifies the well-known synergistic paradigm, i.e., the entire essential oil being more effective than its pure main components, is highly welcome.

Dr. Gianfranco Fontana
Guest Editor

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