Medicinal Plants: Current Insights into Their Biological Activities and Integration with Micro- or Nanotechnologies
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 December 2024 | Viewed by 1826
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanotechnology; medicinal plants; biological activities
Interests: machine learning; algorithm design; nanotechnology
Interests: nanotechnology; bioactive nanomaterials; material engineering and physics
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Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants represent a major source of secondary metabolites with therapeutic activities. The biological activities of natural products are attributed to the configuration and conformation of their functional groups, which can act indiscriminately toward major molecular and cellular components of different organisms. In drug development, the structural diversity of natural products such as alkaloids, triterpenes, and flavonoids has been exploited to formulate innovative antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant agents. However, their clinical application is hampered by their poor solubility, limited specificity, and biocompatibility. Current technologies to overcome these drawbacks involve the use of micro- and nanomaterials to entrap them in rational-designed matrixes or leverage their phytochemical content to synthesize bioactive objects, yielding structures with potential pharmaceutical uses. This Special Issue invites authors to contribute original research articles, reviews, or communications regarding the evaluation of medicinal plants' biological activities, integrating spectroscopy and chromatography techniques to establish an approximate relationship between phytochemical content and observed therapeutic performance. We also welcome studies in which extracts or isolated compounds from medicinal plants have been used to synthesize bioactive micro- or nanostructures.
Dr. Jorge L. Mejía Méndez
Prof. Dr. Gildardo Sanchez-Ante
Dr. Edgar R. López-Mena
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal plants
- plant extracts
- bioactive nanomaterials
- inorganic materials
- organic materials
- drug delivery systems
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