Biomedical Applications of Natural Plant Extract
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 35139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant extracts and secondary metabolites; essential oils; phytochemistry; gas chromatography; anticancer; antimicrobial; antioxidant activity of natural plant extracts
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Interests: cell culture; cytotoxicity assays; plant extracts and secondary metabolites; phytochemistry; anticancer; antioxidant; antimicrobial activity of natural plant extracts
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural plant extracts are widely used in traditional and modern medicine as a source of many secondary metabolites with potent anticancer, antioxidant, immunomodulatory, antimicrobial, anti-inflammation, hypoglycemic or hypocholesterolemic properties. Many of them are components of drugs used in everyday treatments of different internal and skin diseases. Simultaneously, many plant extracts and secondary metabolites are still not well known, and their biological and pharmacological activities are extensively studied, thus showing their potential healing value and usefulness in phytotherapy.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present scientific papers describing modern in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo studies on natural plant extracts and their applications in a wide range of biomedicine. Phytochemistry of active natural products with studies on their mechanisms of biological and pharmacological action, the possibility of using plant extracts in any biological and medical field, or other relevant issues can be discussed.
Prof. Dr. Jadwiga Renata Ochocka
Dr. Justyna Stefanowicz-Hajduk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological and pharmacological activities
- phytochemistry of natural plant extracts
- treatment of skin diseases
- clinical applications
- preclinical experiments
- in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo study
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