Polyphenols and Plant Extracts for the Prevention of Cancer
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 July 2024 | Viewed by 1093
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tumor diseases are claiming more and more victims worldwide. Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide; it was responsible for nearly 10 million deaths in recent years. Therefore, in addition to therapeutic intervention for cancer diseases, prevention plays an important role. As a part of primary prevention, phytochemicals are capable of preventing, delaying, or reversing the initiation, promotion, and progression of preneoplastic cells into cancerous cells, thus reducing the incidence of cancerous diseases. These compounds also play a role in tertiary prevention, and they can influence the formation of metastasis through different molecular pathways, thus reducing mortality in the long term. Therefore, this Special Issue prioritizes studies that discuss the chemoprevention of cancer diseases using phytochemicals of plant origin. It searches for evidence on the mechanisms of action of bioactive agents in fruits, vegetables, and plant extracts, such as polyphenols, through experiments on specific cell lines, animal models, and human studies.
Our goal is to highlight plant-derived compounds that are important for tumor prevention and to introduce new research results to the scientific community. This Special Issue focuses on the investigation of compounds and plant extracts using molecular biological methods, epigenetics, and human epidemiological studies.
We invite your research group to submit summaries of their original studies on this important, current topic.
Dr. Tímea Varjas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemoprevention
- plant extract
- animal model
- in vivo model
- in vitro study
- messenger RNA expression
- miRNA expression
- blocking agent
- suppressing agent
- apoptosis
