The Role of Natural Products in Cancer Therapy and Prevention
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 757
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biochemistry; lemon peel polyphenol extract; Annurca apple polyphenols; colon cancer; matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-2/9; cell invasiveness; natural anti-metastatic agent
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Historically, the identification and study of natural products (NPs) derived from natural resources, such as microbes and plants from terrestrial and marine environments, has led to important contributions in pharmacotherapy. Nowadays, NPs play a major role in cancer treatment by modulating the cancer microenvironment and different signaling pathways: cell death pathways (apoptosis and autophagy), cell growth, proliferation and differentiation pathways, remodeling of extracellular matrices pathways (metastasis formation), and inflammatory processes. The rapid development of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs and their undesirable side effects makes it necessary to continue to advance the discovery and development of novel drugs with greater therapeutic efficiency and fewer side effects for cancer therapy.
I invite researchers to contribute original research articles as well as review articles to this Special Issue, which will increase knowledge and new perspectives about new strategies in the isolation and characterization of new bioactive natural compounds, new biological targets, and pharmacological effects.
Dr. Valentina Pagliara
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- cell invasiveness
- natural anti-metastatic agent
- signaling pathways
- cancer therapy
