Inhibition and Metabolic Pathway Analysis of Bioactive Substances on Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, many trials have been launched with the aim of developing new drugs from natural products with limited adverse effects. Severe problems related to climate change and particulate matter pollution have become common, threatening public health, and the prevalence of metabolic diseases has significantly increased. However, many researchers have directed their efforts towards functional studies on natural products. Since it is critical that we identify and analyze new functional compounds as well as their properties, evaluation criteria should be established.

This Special Issue welcomes papers presenting research and analytical methods related to functional compounds from natural products. Studies on bioactive sources for controlling metabolic diseases caused by climate change and particulate matter via immune modulation using in vitro and/or in vivo systems are of particular interest.

We welcome papers on the following topics:

• Discovery of bioactive compounds derived from plants;
• Analysis of biomarkers from natural sources;
• Metabolic analysis of various factors in vivo in animal disease models (chronic diseases, inflammation, pulmonary disease);
• Immunomodulation by natural sources;
• Bio-metabolic mechanisms of natural sources;

In vitro/in vivo models for testing food-derived products with immunomodulatory activity for pulmonary disease.

Dr. Dae-Hun Park
Dr. Seung-Sik Cho
Guest Editors

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