Natural Products as Drug Candidates for Redox-Related Human Disease

Jong H Kim¹, Kirkwood M Land², Canhua Huang^{3

4}, Yuan-Yuan Zhang^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA.
³ School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
⁴ West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital and Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu 610041, China.
⁵ West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
⁶ Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China.

Editorial

Jong H Kim et al. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 Sep 13;16(9):1294.

doi: 10.3390/ph16091294.

Jong H Kim¹, Kirkwood M Land², Canhua Huang^{3

4}, Yuan-Yuan Zhang^{5

6}

¹ Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA.
³ School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
⁴ West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital and Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu 610041, China.
⁵ West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
⁶ Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China.

Abstract

This Special Issue presented recent progress on natural products that serve as drug candidates for redox-related human diseases [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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