oa Editorial [Hot-Topic:Current Trends in Natural Products as Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Allergy Agents (Guest Editor: Francesco Epifano)]

In the last years natural products have been re-discovered as valuable and effective pharmacological agents. In particular they were shown to exert positive effects in the therapy of acute and chronic diseases, like cancer and microbial syndromes, for which the use of chemotherapeutics or antibiotics failed due to increasing resistance. To this concern, many examples of natural products were reported in the recent and current literature. The aim of this special issue is to collect reviews from several research groups to get further insights in the up to date knowledge in the field of anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy agents obtained from the natural kingdom. Such an issue would be of great interest for several categories of scientists operating in natural product chemistry, phytochemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, pharmacognosy, and others.