Dietary Bioactive Compounds and Their Benefits for Human Health
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 418
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrition; endocrinology; food science thyroid hormones; vitamins; micronutrients; antioxidant activity of foods
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Interests: phytochemicals; molecular biology of cancer; apoptosis; food science; insulin resistance mechanisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is focused on the use of dietary bioactive compounds, such as polyphenols, vitamins and micronutrients, for the development of innovative therapeutic strategies against many human diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic and autoimmune pathologies. This therapeutic approach extended to multiple pathological conditions is allowed by the pleiotropic biological effects of phytochemicals, which can simultaneously target several molecular pathways, like those involved in the development of a chronic inflammatory state, of anti-apoptotic mechanisms, oxidative stress and insulin-resistance conditions. A healthy diet (such as the Mediterranean diet) can provide natural compounds that are able to restore the physiological condition of patients, counteracting the detrimental effects caused by a pro-inflammatory environment, an increase in ROS levels and development of several hallmarks of cancer. In addition, the combination of different phytochemicals can induce synergistic biological activities, remarkably increasing the beneficial effects for human health. The interdisciplinary teamwork with colleagues of both basic and translational research fields will lead to the development of new therapeutic interventions based on natural molecules, which possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties, without the toxic side effects associated with synthetic drugs. Noteworthily, the experimental approaches used to increase the bioavailability of the dietary bioactive compounds should be held in high regard, because they allow one to increase the beneficial effects for human health of all the natural molecules taken with the diet.
In this Special Issue, we invite your contributions, either in the form of original Research Manuscripts or Reviews, on the theme of “Dietary Bioactive Compounds and Their Benefits for Human Health”.
Prof. Dr. Marco Giammanco
Dr. Emanuele-Salvatore Scarpa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary phytochemicals
- autoimmune pathologies
- cancer
- neurodegenerative diseases
- antioxidant
- anti-inflammatory
- bioavailability
