Special Issue: Hypoglycemic Mechanisms of Functional Components from Natural Products
Special Issue Leading Editor: Prof. Guoxun Chen, Prof. Wenyi Kang；Co-editor: Prof. Jian Liu, Prof. Min-hui Li
Deadline: July 31, 2021
Special Issue Editor
Leading Editor：
Assoc. Prof. & Dr. Guoxun Chen
Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Nutrition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
Editor-in-Chief of the Open Biotechnology Journal; Editorial board member of Food Science and Human Wellness; and Editorial board member of 13 other journals.
Chair, Nutritional Science & Metabolism Interest Group at American Diabetes Association, 2020-2022.
Interests: Bioactive compounds in the prevention and treatment of chronic metabolic diseases, and role of vitamin A in the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism
E-mail: gchen6@utk.edu
Prof. & Dr. Wenyi Kang
Associate Editor-in-Chief of Food Science and Human Wellness; Editor of Evidence-Base Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Director of National R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China.
Interests: Phytochemistry and pharmacology
E-mail: kangweny@hotmail.com
Co-editor：
Prof. & Dr. Jian Liu
Director of Degree Management Department, Graduate School, Hefei University of Technology; School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology
Interests: The effect of natural products on obesity and associated insulin resistance and diabetes
E-mail: lujian509@hfut.edu.cn
Prof. & Dr. Min-hui Li
Inner Mongolia Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Interests: Traditional Chinese medicine; natural products chemistry; ethnopharmacology
E-mail: prof_liminhui@yeah.net
Description
The goal of the special issue is to publish the most current advances in research of natural products from the food and medicinal herbs in the prevention and treatment of diabetes and underlying potential mechanisms.
Diabetes is a common chronic metabolic disease affecting the health of millions of people and has become a concern of public health worldwide. If it is not managed properly, diabetes complications will occur and cause health consequences in those patients eventually. Until now, many research groups have shown that a variety of natural products are evidenced to be effective and safe for the therapy of diabetes. However, the action mechanisms of these products which may involve with the function and survival of islet cells, insulin secretion, and insulin sensitivity/resistance, and their responsible effector molecules, signaling pathways, and targets, remain to be revealed. Therefore, further studies about the mechanisms of natural products in the glycemic control are necessary for the development of effective anti-diabetic medicines to curtail the future rise of number of patients with diabetes.
We invite submissions of original research articles and comprehensive reviews aiming to identify effective natural products for treating diabetes and elaborating their anti-diabetic mechanisms in vivo and/or in vitro.
Potential topics on diabetes include, but are not limited to：
· Effector molecules
· Efficacy evaluation
· Signaling pathways
· Targeted tissues, cells and cellular organelles
Keywords: Diabetes; Mechanisms; Signaling pathway; Targets; Natural products; Islet cells; Insulin secretion; Insulin resistance
Instructions for submission:
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Submission Deadline: June 30, 2021
Publication Data: August 2021