Biological Activities of Natural Products III

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products originating from the plant kingdom offer an unexplored opportunities for potential medicinal, health promoting, and cosmetic applications.

In recent years, special attention has been given to natural products exhibiting antioxidant and antiproliferative/anticancer properties. They are of vital importance since they can be used in the treatment and prevention of different lifestyle diseases. Plant extracts and/or isolated compounds exhibiting other directions of biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory, immunostimulating or antimicrobial effects and also cardioprotective, neuroprotective, and antidiabetic activities, are also very significant.

The results of biological activity studies of currently unknown and/or uninvestigated natural products can broaden the range of professional phytotherapeutics available in different regions of the world, including Europe. The selection of plant-derived medicinal products can also be expanded through the verification of ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological knowledge of various ethnic groups in the world.

In addition to plants, fruitbodies of mushrooms, algae, and lichens are rich and still unrecognized sources of natural products.

The main aim of the Special Issue on “Biological Activities of Natural Products” is to present the newest results of investigations and findings in the above-presented area. Results presenting the correlation between chemical composition of extracts and/or isolated compounds and their biological activity are particularly welcome. Research on antioxidant and antiproliferative/anticancer activities of extracts and/or isolated products will be preferentially considered. Research on other above-mentioned activities will also be appreciated. The results of biological activity studies documented in vitro and in vivo, and also results of clinical investigations, will be appreciated.

Original papers or review articles are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Halina Ekiert
Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Szopa
Guest Editors

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