Natural Antioxidants from Plants and Foods
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1028
Special Issue Editor
Interests: inflammation; oxidative stress; reactive oxygen species; cytokines storm; molecular pathways; in vivo models; natural compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue “Natural Antioxidants from Plants and Foods” is a collection of research articles and review papers that explore the role of antioxidant compounds from plants and food.
Fruits and vegetables have received a great deal of attention due to their high content of antioxidants such as phenolics and flavonoids. Knowing the antioxidant potentials and exploring the possible benefits of the plant and food remain a hot topic for the past decades. Taking good use of natural products from our daily life still remains a top solution in solving challenges nowdays like anti-covid, anti-virus, anti-bacterial, anti-cancer and so on. In this sense, it is necessary to explore more about the antioxidative compounds from plant and foods in aspect of extracting methods, biological properties and pharmaceutical applications... which continues to develop.
The use of bioactive natural compounds (such as alkaloids, phenolics, terpenes, saponins, and volatile organic compounds) of animal or vegetal origin to treat oxidative stress and inflammation is increasing worldwide, thanks to their limited side effects. Various medicinal plant bioactive extracts and their identified/isolated active constituents have shown a variety of medicinal pharmacological properties against various acute and chronic diseases/disorders.
The objective of this Special Issue is to study, at a molecular level, the mechanisms of action of bioactive natural compounds to reduce pathological complications associated with oxidant and inflamamtor diseases. Importantly, the exact active ingredient of natural origin extract must be reported in the submitted research manuscript, since papers describing the effects of mixed extraction from natural origin are not in the scope of the journal.
Dr. Ramona D'Amico
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- polyphenols
- oxidative stress
- reactive oxygen species
- inflammation
- molecular pathways
- in vivo models
