The Role of Nutraceuticals in Gastrointestinal Diseases and the Applications in Microbiota
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: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 937
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Nutraceuticals represent a reality that is progressively finding a concrete role in clinical practice in a technical-regulatory scenario that remains controversial in some respects. The placement of food substances with pharmaceutical effects places them in an intermediate condition between that of food and that of active ingredients. This complex scenario is further complicated by the emerging knowledge relating to the microbiota, which open new scenarios regarding the prebiotic potential (and the related postbiotics that could derive from it) for nutraceutical substances. Gastrointestinal diseases, in their direct effects and in their metabolic applications, in this context, represent one of the first and main scenarios where the effect of nutraceuticals can and must be investigated, starting from the compositional aspects, analyzing the known biological‒molecular effects, reaching to proven or potential clinical applications. In particular, the study of synergistic applications to the conventionally used pharmacological ones also represents a further element aimed at the development of new possible therapeutic potentials.
Therefore, this Special Issue entitled "The Role of Nutraceuticals in Gastrointestinal Diseases and the Applications in Microbiota" will discuss the recent advances in the molecular metabolic mechanisms highlighted for nutraceutical substances used in the management of Gastrointestinal Disorders, analyzing both the direct effects of and the implications due to the interaction with the microbiota.
Arguments relating to both original and reviewed articles are welcome.
Dr. Alexander Bertuccioli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbiota
- nutraceuticals
- probiotics
- prebiotics
- postbiotics
- IBS
- IBD
- GERD
