Special Issue "Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Natural Products as Sources of New Approved Drugs"
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 279
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products; drug delivery; liposomes; lipid nanocarriers; micro and nanoemulsions; nanoparticles; solubility; stability; bioefficacy; oral, brain and skin delivery; PAMPA test
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Interests: metabolomics; imaging mass spectrometry; natural product chemistry; microbial drug discovery; antimicrobials; plant–microbe interactions; chemical ecology; molecular ecology; endophytes; phytopathogens; biocontrol organisms; biologics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Collection titled "Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Natural Products as Sources of New Approved Drugs”. This issue will be a collection of papers from researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members.
Natural products are fascinating molecules for drug discovery due to their exciting structural variability and their interactions with various biological targets, which represent the best approach to develop successful medications for many diseases. Due to an increasing demand for chemical diversity in pharmaceutical screening programs, the identification of novel therapeutic drugs from natural sources represents an interesting approach. Indeed, plants are extremely rich sources of bioactive molecules with a multitude of applications in biomedicine, cosmetics, and the food industry.
Contributions to this Special Issue may cover all research related to the extraction, identification, and characterization of bioactive molecules from plants, the evaluation of their biological activities that could potentially contribute to the development of new drugs, and their formulation using classical and innovative delivery systems to increase their bioavailability.
Original research papers and review articles are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Maria Camilla Bergonzi
Dr. Souvik Kusari
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- bioactive molecules
- pharmacological properties
- in vitro and in vivo test
- clinical investigations
- formulations development
