Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease
Submission Deadline: 31 Dec 2022
Guest Editor
Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Interests: bioactive phytochemicals; bioavailability of phytochemicals; funcitonal foods; nutraceuticals; medicinal plants; herbal remedies; mediterranean diet; traditional diets; ethnonutrition; ethnopharmacology; food security; food safety
Special Issue in IMR Press journals
Special Issue in Antiaging Effects of Natural Products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decades, a huge amount of preclinical (i.e. in vitro and in vivo) studies indicated that phytochemicals and plant extracts exert a plethora of biological and pharmacological activities in cell cultures and animal models, though the evidence in humans is less substantiated and still fragmentary. Nowadays, we know that bioactive phytochemicals and herbal medicines possess antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant/prooxidant, cytotoxic and immunomodulating activities, inter alia, which make them promising cardioprotective, neuroprotective, anticancer, antidiabetes, antiobesity and antiaging agents. However, these natural products appear to be more effective in prevention than in treatment of chronic-degenerative diseases. This is the case of healthy diets rich in plant foods. Not least, phytochemicals can be used as adjuvants in association with conventional therapies in order to improve their efficacy, reduce their adverse effects, decrease the risk of selecting resistant microbial strains or cancer cells or even revert resistance (including radioresistance).
Within this broad context, this Special Issue welcomes contributes focusing on bioactive phytochemicals and botanicals, with an emphasis on their health-promoting effects. Therefore, we invite investigators to submit both original research and review articles that explore all these aspects.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marcello Iriti
Guest Editor
Keywords
- Nutraceuticals
- Functional Foods
- Medicinal Plants
- Herbal Remedies
- Plant Secondary Metabolites
- Ethnopharmacology
- Bioavailability
- ADME (adsorption
- distribution
- metabolism
- excretion)
- Non-communicable Diseases
- Cancer Chemoprevention
- Cardioprotection
- Neuroprotection
- Infectious Diseases
- Antimicrobials
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Immunomodulation
- Anti-obesity agents
- Antidiabetic agents
- Aging
- One Health
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Published Papers (7)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2023, 28(3), 44; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2803044
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(9), 259; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2709259
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(8), 228; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2708228
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(8), 227; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2708227
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(7), 206; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2707206
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(6), 197; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2706197
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2022, 27(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2702045
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Phytochemicals and Botanicals in Health and Disease)