Anticancer Compounds in Medicinal Plants—4th Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2025 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; functional dyes; structural elucidation; natural products chemistry; medicinal plants; natural bioactive compounds
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Interests: natural bioactive compounds; medicinal chemistry; bioactivity and toxicology; functional applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer, in its multiple forms, is presently one of the leading causes of death in both developing and developed countries, and it has become a major health problem and a burden on most public health care systems worldwide. Although several decades of drug discovery and development have provided a number of useful chemotherapeutic agents, there is a continuous interest in the search for new chemical entities with improved anticancer effectiveness and safety.
Since ancient times, humankind has relied on herbal medicines for the treatment and prevention of a plethora of different ailments, and their beneficial properties have been recognized both in traditional medicines and more contemporary herbalism practices. Medicinal plants, which have contributed to the collection of compounds that are now at our disposal for cancer therapy, constitute a reservoir of natural products that are able to provide new molecules with anticancer activity and new molecular frameworks, inspiring the design of derivatives with improved therapeutic ability.
The attention paid by scientific researchers to natural compounds as a source of anticancer molecules has increased exponentially in the last two decades, highlighting their enormous future potential.
For this Special Issue, “Anticancer Compounds in Medicinal Plants—4th Edition”, we invite researchers to contribute with original research or review articles related to natural compounds with anticancer properties isolated from medicinal plants. Contributions can include the discovery of new compounds, in vitro and in vivo assessments of the anticancer properties of medicinal plant-derived compounds, the elucidation of their mechanisms of action, and the design of derivatives with improved efficacy.
Dr. Paulo Santos
Dr. Lillian Barros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- phytochemicals
- cancer
- secondary metabolites
- medicinal plants
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