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Dr. Cristian Paz
Email: cristian.paz@ufrontera.cl
Affiliation: Department of Basic Sciences, University of La Frontera, Temuco, 4811230, Chile
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Research Interests: I work in chemistry of natural product, isolating and evaluating the activity of pure compounds isolated from medicinal plants of the Chilean flora
Summary
Medicinal natural products have a preponderant part in the drug discovery, and due to the arising of new challenges for microorganism control including virus, bacterial, fungi or protozoal the study of bioactive plants takes more importance in these days. Moreover, with the constant discovery of new therapeutic target for human health the bioactive metabolites are an inspiration for new drugs development. Also, the interaction between plants with insects, fungi or between plants are new topics possible to understand from their volatile metabolites.
The scope of the Special Issue is highlighting the role of plants in health going by their relevance in folk medicine and the study of their essential oils and metabolites by qualitative, quantitative and biochemical analysis.
Potential subjects for this topic include
- Extraction methods of plants
- Quantification of secondary metabolites
- Structure analysis of compounds isolated from plants
- Purification methods of secondary metabolites
- Biotransformation of natural compounds
- Antimicrobial activity of total extracts
- Enzymatic assays against relevant proteins
- Essential oils and their properties
- Biological activity of metabolites in general
- Plant-insect interaction
Keywords
natural products, isolation, structure determination, biological activity, plant defense, biological control
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