Bioactive Compounds in Pharmaceutical Research
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 4836
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioactive compounds; antioxidants; apoptosis; cancer; biomedicines; polyphenols
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Dear Colleagues,
Bioactive compounds derived from natural sources possess numerous biological and pharmacological activities. Bioactive compounds from plants, animals, bacterial, and fungal sources are very important in improving health and curing/preventing diseases. The natural bioactive compounds possess different pharmacological actions (such as antioxidant, anticancer, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, anti-microbial, cardioprotective, diuretic, anti-aging, osteogenic, wound healing, etc.) and present a wide range of therapeutic activities and hence they are being used in many pharmaceutical applications. Most of the traditional medicine preparations require the use of bioactive natural compounds extracted from the plant. Apart from plant sources, bioactive compounds from animal sources like polyunsaturated fatty acids, polysaccharides, peptides, and enzymes also have many therapeutic values.
This special issue “Bioactive Compounds in Pharmaceutical Research” contains the research and review articles about different bioactive compounds, their pharmacological activity, and potential molecular mechanism in different disease models (E.g.: Cancer, cardiovascular disease; diabetes; aging, diabetes, and infectious diseases).
Dr. Rathinasamy Baskaran
Prof. Dr. Wan-Teng Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- peptides
- phytochemicals
- functional food
- nutraceuticals
- biomedicines