Special Issue "Pharmacomicrobiomics and Botanicals: Effect of Gut Microbiota on Botanicals"
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 September 2023) | Viewed by 296
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chromatographic analysis; metabolomics; pharmacokinetic; pharmacomicrobiomics; drug discovery from natural product
Interests: active metabolites; microbial enzymes; drug metabolism; herb–drug interaction; dietary supplements
Interests: natural products chemistry; active metabolites; structure elucidation; dietary supplements
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We welcome you to submit your findings on gut microbiota-related botanical research. Botanicals are the major components of different traditional medicines and dietary supplements, but poor knowledge on botanicals’ mechanisms has limited their clinical translation. The gut, the largest digestive organ of the body, harbors trillions of microbes with diversified genera, which are collectively known as the gut microbiota. They greatly influence orally administered botanicals by modulating their phytoconstituents. The newly formed chemicals differ from the parental phytoconstituents concerning their bioavailability, bioactivity, and chemical properties. On the other hand, phytoconstituents of ingested botanicals may affect the gut ecosystem, especially microbial diversity, their populations, and their secretions, which play an enormous role in therapeutic activity and efficacy. Phytoconstituents changed by gut microbiota and their secretion will help to explore the underlying mechanism for botanicals on a deeper level. An understanding of gut microbiota and botanical interaction will provide new insights into precision drug discovery from botanical and generate scientific evidence for its clinical translation.
This Special Issue aims to bring together articles that explore scientific research on all aspects of gut microbiota and botanical interactions, including gut microbiota-based metabolism of botanicals, the in silico prediction of metabolites formed through gut microbiota, pharmacokinetic assessment, the effect of gut microbiota on efficacy, targeted and untargeted metabolomics, gut microbe on the immune system, the effect of botanicals on gut microbial biodiversity and qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Papers addressing the pharmacological evaluation of botanicals and their synergistic effect with gut microbes are also welcome.
Dr. Washim Khan
Dr. Islam Husain
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- botanicals
- biotransformation
- pharmacokinetic
- metabolomics
- pharmacological evaluation
