Analysis of Plant Metabolites, Antioxidants Compounds and Their Biological Activities (Volume II)
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023)
Special Issue Editor
2. Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Interests: analysis of plant metabolites and antioxidants compound and enzymes activity in plants; biochemical characterization of plants suffering from abiotic stress; analysis of proteins by using gel electrophoresis; analysis of isoenzymes by using native gel electrophoresis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Medicinal plants have long been used as a form of natural therapy. Plant-derived extracts, or phytochemicals, have been used as food additives and to treat a variety of medical conditions. Many plants' secondary metabolites have become an important part of human health, increasing the value of plant extracts as herbal medicines. Secondary metabolites comprise a diverse group of molecules produced by higher plants that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of the plants that produce them. Nevertheless, a growing body of research indicates that they may display multiple effects beneficial for the general well-being of human and animal organisms. Those effects include non-specific ones that affect the whole organism, such as antioxidant, antifungal, antimicrobial, anticancer, pharmacological or anti-inflammatory effects. Among the plant secondary metabolites used as therapeutic agents are phenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins, terpenes, cardiac glycosides, alkaloid derivatives, and many others. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to collect the latest findings and advances in traditional medicinal plant research, including studies on wild edible species and their current and potential future applications on cell metabolism, as well as their incorporation in various phytochemical preparations or food supplements and their biological assays.
Therefore, we would like to invite researchers from a large number of regions and countries to submit papers presenting options for analyzing plant metabolites and antioxidant compound and their biological activity in plants, based on either biotechnical or multidisciplinary research, for publication in this Special Issue. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, short communications and reviews, either mono- or multidisciplinary, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Hossam Saad El-Beltagi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- secondary metabolites
- plant
- essential oil
- antioxidants
- bioactive compounds
- docking
- biological activity
- cytotoxic effect
