Analysis and Processes of Bioactive Components in Natural Products
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green technologies; subcritical water extraction; biowaste valorization; bioactive compounds; plant extracts; natural products; functional foods; natural medicines
Interests: algal bioactive extracts; algal biotechnology; bioactive compounds; green extraction; nutraceuticals; functional foods; plant extracts; VOCs; HRMS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are all witnessing a growing interest in the bioactive components of natural products, and scientific research into their bioactive potential is increasing every year. This is not surprising, considering that natural bioactive products have a wide spectrum of possible biological activities (ranging from therapeutic to toxic, allergic, or mutagenic effects) and play an important role in discovering and developing new drugs. As the term "bioactive components" is usually only associated with beneficial health effects, this suggests that therapeutic compounds of natural origin are of a particular scientific interest. Many attempts have been made to provide sensitive and selective analytical methods for the determination and characterization of bioactive compounds. However, analyzing bioactive compounds from natural resources still poses a significant challenge.
This Special Issue aims to provide the scientific community with a high-quality research platform containing the latest methods and techniques, focusing on the processes of isolation, characterization, identification, and evaluation of the biological activity of bioactive components in natural products.
Suitable topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bioactive components derived from microbes to higher plants and animals (including marine organisms);
- Methods for isolation, characterization, and identification of bioactive components from natural products using hyphenated techniques;
- Evaluation of extraction techniques;
- In vitro and in vivo biological screening to evaluate the biological activity of extracts and isolated compounds;
- Metabolomic studies of biactive compounds.
Original research and review articles are welcome.
Dr. Tanja Brezo-Borjan
Dr. Sanja Radman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive components
- natural products
- extraction
- isolation
- characterization methods
- biological activity
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