Nutraceuticals: Current Approaches in Their Metabolism, Biological Activity and Preservation
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2927
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutraceuticals; metabolic engineering; metabolomics; transcriptomics; functional genomics
Interests: biotechnology; natural plant products; flavonoids; terpnoids; microalgae; molecular biology; biochem
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term nutraceutical involves natural substances able to improve human health. These substances are mainly biosynthesized and accumulated by plants, algae, fungi and other organisms in the form of secondary or even primary metabolites. In the character of nutraceuticals, these compounds need to be orally consumed to exert their benefits. Knowing the biological activity of nutraceuticals from edible sources may help to understand the natural ability of foods, especially native foods for controlling the inflammatory and oxidative process derived from unbalanced diets which promote the prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemias and neurodegenerative diseases. This volume aims to compile and disseminate recent efforts regarding the discovery of new sources of nutraceuticals supported by cutting-edge analytical techniques and novel biological or in silico protocols which led to elucidating their therapeutic effects. In addition, reports on new biotechnological platforms to scale the production of molecules with proven nutraceutical activity are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit potential contributions considering the following points:
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical studies for determining the accumulation of single or combined nutraceuticals in novel or overlooked edible sources.
- Metabolomics profiling to understand the synthesis and accumulation of primary and secondary metabolites in edible sources under diverse experimental conditions.
- In vitro, in vivo and in silico approaches to clarify the nutraceutical activity of single or combined substances.
- Biosynthesis, metabolic engineering, tissue culture and elicitation for the sustainable production of nutraceuticals.
- New methods to preserve nutraceuticals in foods.
- Comprehensive reviews on the status of molecules with nutraceutical activity.
Potential contributions may be focused on one of the first five points or cover more than one requirement.
Dr. Nemesio Villa-Ruano
Dr. Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutraceuticals
- new sources
- metabolism
- accumulation
- instrumental analysis
- biological tests
- metabolic engineering
- tissue culture
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