Isolation, Identification and Application of Biologically Active Natural Products—Second Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 757
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medicinal and edible plants; natural product bioactivity; phytochemistry; structural characterization; biological activity evaluation; toxicological evaluation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant-based foods; functional foods; medicinal and edible plants; natural product bioactivity; phytochemistry; structural characterization; biological activity evaluation; toxicological evaluation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that natural products are small molecules produced naturally by any organism including primary and secondary metabolites. They are usually presented in the edible and medicinal plants, animals and microorganism. Traditionally, ethnopharmacology and phytomedicine have been proved to be an invaluable source of information on the probable medicinal properties of these natural resources. To date, the numerous phytochemical and pharmacological studies have been conducted to found significant biological ingredients. And some of these bioactive compounds were developed into clinical drugs. In many cases, current studies conducted in various pharmacological models (in vitro, in vivo, clinical trials) played important roles in biological evaluation of natural products being used as potential medicinal agents.
This Special Issue of Molecules cover the aspects concerning extraction, isolation and structure elucidation of natural products, structure-bioactivity relationship of natural products, novel analytical methods including in natural products, bioaccessibility and bioavailability of natural products, biological evaluation of bioactive natural products; safety and efficacy phytotherapy of natural products. I hope that this Special Issue will increase the understanding of bioactive natural products and I would like to thank the authors for their valuable contributions.
Prof. Dr. Gui-Guang Cheng
Dr. Ya-Ping Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemistry
- natural product chemistry
- food chemistry
- secondary metabolites
- isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive compounds
- novel analytical technique in natural products
- phytomedicine
- biological and pharmacological activity
- toxicological evaluation
