Anti-Inflammatory and Antimicrobial Compounds and Extracts from Plant Sources
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemistry of biologically active natural products; mechanisms of anticancer, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of flavonoids and triterpenoids from cranberry and other fruits; functional food factors and nutrition; isolation and structure elucidation of natural products; development of secondary metabolites in Vaccinium species
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Interests: bioactive natural products; anti-aging; nutraceuticals; cosmeceuticals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Inflammation plays a role in the development of many chronic health issues and diseases of aging, from cardiovascular disease to various cancers. Natural strategies to mitigate inflammation include traditional herbal medicine and botanical preparations, as well as the consumption of a plant-based diet. Knowledge of the active phytochemical constituents, their metabolites, and the inflammatory pathways potentially impacted by these natural products can provide scientists and healthcare professionals with an expanded toolkit to help prevent or improve inflammatory conditions. Likewise, the increased emergence of drug-resistant microbes poses a public health challenge that could be addressed in part through the discovery of plant-based natural products with previously unexplored antimicrobial properties.
This Special Issue welcomes author contributions describing original research on anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial phytochemicals, particularly studies describing the chemical characterization of extracts and preparations from plant sources and the determination of their biological activities and mechanisms of action. Review articles focusing on specific plant sources of anti-inflammatory and/or antimicrobial agents and their potential applications are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Catherine C. Neto
Dr. Hang Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- anti-inflammatory
- antimicrobial
- plants
- extracts
- botanicals
- metabolites
- functional foods
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