Plant Bioactive Compounds in Pharmaceuticals, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyphenols; medicinal plants; antioxidant activity; innovative pharmaceuticals
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Interests: pharmaceutical technology; plant extracts; nanotechnology; pharmacology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, relevant scientific knowledge about bioactive compounds has come to support the evidence-based use of medicinal plants. Consequently, it is necessary to elucidate the most important mechanisms of their action in the body. In order to obtain pharmaceutical products, plant material is first processed into different types of extracts that eventually become the finished product. Thus, it is particularly important that the raw material selected is chemically, pharmacologically, and clinically characterized. In this way, we can assert proof of the quality and safety of these phytoproducts so that they can be administered considering an appropriate therapeutic benefit/risk ratio. Following this, the extracts can be standardized into one or more bioactive compounds that can then be processed into an administrable pharmaceutical product. We want manufacturers to obtain patented extracts using concrete and science-based data based on research results. Through these research results, we also seek to obtain further information that highlights the structural, physico-chemical, and pharmacological properties of medicinal plants, especially those with key roles in human metabolism and physiology, as well as those with major implications regarding specific biological properties.
Prof. Dr. Jurca Tünde
Prof. Dr. Laura Gratiela Vicas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- medicinal plant
- phytocomplexes
- cell cultures
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