Plant-Based Extracts and the Therapeutic Potential of Bioactive Compounds, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant polyphenols; chemoprevention; advanced phytochemical analysis; herbal medicinal products
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Dear Colleagues,
The safety, efficacy, and quality of modern herbal medicinal products are determined by the valuable plant extracts used in their production. The quality of herbal substances must be consistent, and the multi-stage process (which involves achieving the maximum compliance of the chemical composition with that found in the plant material during the herbal preparation stage) must be standardized. Specific high-quality physicochemical tests are carried out on the final herbal extract, including the control of biologically active components or active chemical markers and the validation of developed analytical methods. This leads to valuable extracts that can be assessed in preclinical and clinical studies due to their therapeutic properties.This Special Issue showcases submissions that present a variety of preparative methods used to obtain liquid and solid herbal extracts and their phytochemical standardization procedures using validated analytical methods.
We welcome article submissions that present coupled chromatographic, spectroscopic, and spectrometric analytical techniques. Detailed phytochemical profiling should be combined with an evaluation of the biological properties (in vitro and in vivo studies or preliminary clinical evaluation) of herbal preparations and isolated bioactive phytoconstituents, especially regarding their ability to inhibit degenerative processes in the human body.
Dr. Grażyna Zgórka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant extracts
- herbal medicinal products
- standardization
- phytochemical profiling
- bioactive plant compounds
- therapeutic effects
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