Phytochemicals of Natural Products

<p>The plant kingdom with its terrestrial and marine natural products has been widely explored. Plant-based products have long been used to prevent and treat various ailments. Many natural compounds have been reported to have a variety of interesting and significant biological activities including antioxidant anti-inflammatory antitumor antibacterial antiviral antifungal antiparasitic analgesic antidiabetic anti-atherogenic and antiproliferative as well as cardioprotective and neuroprotective properties. Therefore researchers pay special attention to the bioactive compounds synthesized by plants. Opportunities in functional ingredients and treatment of NCDs (oxidative stress diabetes obesity metabolic syndrome etc.) are widely explored. However many therapeutic properties of plants are still to be discovered. This Special Issue reprint intends to substantially contribute to our knowledge of their beneficial properties. Natural products could be a vast resource in respect of human well-being improvement. This Special Issue reprint also aims to disseminate some of the most recent and significant contributions in natural product research on phytochemicals and biological activity.</p>