Dietary Bioactive Ingredients in the Modulation of Signaling Pathways in Cancer
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; bioactivity; natural products; drug discovery; breast and prostate tumors; molecular modeling; molecular cell biology; cancer recurrence; cancer cell motility
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Dear Colleagues,
Epidemiological studies have highlighted the role of dietary bioactive ingredients in reducing the incidence of certain malignancies. Examples of validated cancer-modulating effects enabled by dietary bioactive ingredients include the reduced susceptibility of Mediterranean and Southeast Asian populations to certain cancers due to their dietary consumption of olive phenolics and soy isoflavones, respectively. Dietary bioactive ingredients are recognized as being able to directly suppress and prevent cancers or indirectly suppress cancers through crosstalk with the human gut microbiota. Emerging bioinformatic technologies such as RNA and single-cell sequencing show potential in validating the anticancer contributions of bioactive dietary ingredients and aiding in the discovery of more novel cancer-selective targeted mechanistic signaling pathways, which will facilitate their nutraceutical use to achieve improved therapeutic outcomes. For this Special Issue, we welcome submissions highlighting the contribution of dietary bioactive ingredients to cancer prevention and control, as well as their molecular mechanisms.
Prof. Dr. Khalid A. El Sayed
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive dietary ingredients
- cancer prevention
- cancer progression
- cancer-targeted pathways
- nutraceuticals
- metastasis
- signaling transduction
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