Therapeutic Potential of Plant Secondary Metabolites in the Treatment of Diseases and Drug Development

• Outros autores: Drašar, Pavel B. (Editor)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; Chemical engineering; Cannabis sativa (Cannabis); cannabinoids; tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); cannabidiol (CBD); cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2); Papaver somniferum (opium poppy); secondary metabolites; ursolic acid; NSCLC; tumorsphere; EGFR; STAT3; MMP2; PD-L1; MAFLD; tanshinone IIA; phytochemical; lipogenesis; lipid accumulation; LXRα; malaria; quinine; chloroquine; artemisinin; onchocerciasis; ivermectin; moxidectin; cancer; vincristine; vinblastine; anabolic; diabetes; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; β-ecdysone; ecdysteroid; ecdysterone; Mas1; osteoporosis; sarcopenia; COVID-19; cardiometabolic diseases; respiratory diseases; natural product; SARS-CoV-2; lung cancer; United States Food and Drug Administration-approved drug; natural remedy; triterpenoid; molecular ribbon; Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition; amide bond; multifunctional PEG3 derivative; antimicrobial activity; anti-HIV activity; cytotoxicity; supramolecular self-assembly; phytocannabinoids; cannabichromene; thermos-TRPs; TRPA1; α,α-dimethylheptyl effect; betulinic acid; BODIPY; bevirimat; cell-cycle; fluorescent microscopy; maturation inhibitor; capsaicinoids; endocannabinoidome; microbiota; overweight; obesity; food intake; lipidomics; metabolism; alkaloids; membrane fusion; viral fusion inhibitor; antiviral therapy; curcumin; cancer cells; bioavailability; curcumin derivatives; curcumin analogues; curcumin delivery systems; natural product synthesis; lignans; inflammation; NF-κB inhibition; n/a
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The importance of natural products, and especially plant secondary metabolites, for the treatment of diseases and drug development has already been obvious in medicine for several thousand years. Thus, this Special Issue of MDPI Biomedicines collects eight top articles from the field as regular full...