Pharmaceuticals Based on or Loaded with Natural Products
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 6567
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ex-vivo permeation; nanosystems; drug delivery systems; biopolymers; buccal tablets; microparticles; dissolution kinetics
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Dear Colleagues,
According to the UN Agenda 2030, several actions (corresponding to 17 Sustainable Development Goals—SDGs) could be taken to act synergistically towards various areas of critical importance for both humanity and the planet. Nowadays, a growing trend is to recover waste, in accordance with a circular economy model, by means of extraction of the loaded or residual natural bioactive compounds (e.g., polyphenols, carotenoids, plant sterols and stanols, anthraquinones, astaxanthin), polymers (e.g., chitosan, hyaluronic acid, pectin), proteins (e.g., collagen, gelatine, fish protein hydrolysate), DNA fractions, lipids, vitamins, etc. These molecules can be successfully used to produce pharmaceuticals as they can exert a wide range of potent biological activities (e.g., antioxidant, antimicrobic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, antiaging, anti-hyperpigmentation, photoprotective, chemopreventive, anticancer and immunomodulatory) while also being quite safe.
This Special Issue will collect both scientific research papers and review articles focused on the use of the aforementioned natural products obtained by waste recovery to develop pharmaceutical products useful for several purposes. Dermatologic, transdermic, mucosal and oral formulations as well as micro- and nanotechnology-based delivery systems are welcome. The central natural products could be intended as actives (e.g., polyphenols, DNA fractions, fish protein hydrolysate, etc.) or as natural materials to develop the formulation or the nano- and micro-particulate delivery systems (e.g., gelatin, chitosan, hyaluronic acid, pectin, etc.). Contributions to the expansion of knowledge in this context are of great appeal in the pharmaceutical field while also being in agreement with the current “green” trend.
Dr. Giulia Di Prima
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- biopolymers
- antioxidants
- pharmaceuticals
- secondary raw materials
- dermatologic formulations
- transdermic formulations
- mucosal formulations
- oral formulations
- micro- and nano-delivery systems
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