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Luca Rastrelli

Luca Rastrelli

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
16568
World Ranking
7601
National Ranking
188

Overview

Luca Rastrelli is affiliated with the University of Salerno in Italy, contributing extensively to research in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Food Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology.

Their research topics are diverse, focusing notably on Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities, Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Food Composition and Properties, Bee Products Chemical Analysis, and Medicinal Plants and Neuroprotection.

Among recent scientific papers, several stand out by title, year, and publication venue:

  • Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities, 2021, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Virtual Screening of Natural Products against Type II Transmembrane Serine Protease (TMPRSS2), the Priming Agent of Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 2020, Molecules
  • Green non-conventional techniques for the extraction of polyphenols from agricultural food by-products: A review, 2021, Journal of Chromatography A
  • Onion Peel: Turning a Food Waste into a Resource, 2021, Antioxidants
  • Effect of Very-Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet on Psoriasis Patients: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Based Metabolomic Study, 2020, Journal of Proteome Research

Luca Rastrelli collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Maria D'Elia
  • Rita Celano
  • Anna Lisa Piccinelli
  • Luca Campone
  • Giuseppe Castaldo

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Foods
  • Preprints.org
  • Food Chemistry
  • Nutrients
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities.

    Atanas G Atanasov;Sergey B Zotchev;Verena M Dirsch

  • Flavonoid biosynthetic pathways in plants: Versatile targets for metabolic engineering.

    Seyed Mohammad Nabavi;Dunja Šamec;Michał Tomczyk;Luigi Milella

  • A critical analysis of extraction techniques used for botanicals: Trends, priorities, industrial uses and optimization strategies

    Tarun Belwal;Shahira M. Ezzat;Luca Rastrelli;Indra D. Bhatt

  • Isolation and quantitative analysis of phenolic antioxidants, free sugars, and polyols from mango (Mangifera indica L.) stem bark aqueous decoction used in Cuba as a nutritional supplement.

    Alberto J Núñez Sellés;Herman T Vélez Castro;Juan Agüero-Agüero;Johanes González-González

  • Chemical composition of Lepidium meyenii

    A. Dini;G. Migliuolo;L. Rastrelli;P. Saturnino

  • Cuban and Brazilian red propolis: botanical origin and comparative analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array detection/electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

    Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Cinzia Lotti;Luca Campone;Osmany Cuesta-Rubio

  • Curcumin: a natural product for diabetes and its complications.

    Seyed Fazel Nabavi;Raman Thiagarajan;Luca Rastrelli;Maria Daglia

  • Fatty acid composition and antioxidant levels in muscle tissue of different Mediterranean marine species of fish and shellfish.

    Siro Passi;Stefano Cataudella;Patrizia Di Marco;Francesco De Simone

  • Hepatoprotective effect of quercetin: From chemistry to medicine.

    Davide Barreca;Ersilia Bellocco;Grazia D'Onofrio;Seyed Fazel Nabavi

  • Structural revision of clusianone and 7-epi-clusianone and anti-HIV activity of polyisoprenylated benzophenones

    Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Osmany Cuesta-Rubio;Mariano Barrios Chica;Naheed Mahmood

  • Virtual Screening of Natural Products against Type II Transmembrane Serine Protease (TMPRSS2), the Priming Agent of Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

    Noor Rahman;Zarrin Basharat;Muhammad Yousuf;Giuseppe Castaldo

  • Epigallocatechin gallate and mitochondria—A story of life and death

    Marcos Roberto de Oliveira;Seyed Fazel Nabavi;Maria Daglia;Luca Rastrelli

  • Isoflavonoids isolated from Cuban propolis.

    Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Mercedes Campo Fernandez;Osmany Cuesta-Rubio;Ingrid Márquez Hernández

  • Anti-proliferative activity and chemical characterization by comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry of phlorotannins from the brown macroalga Sargassum muticum collected on North-Atlantic coasts.

    Lidia Montero;Andrea P. Sánchez-Camargo;Virginia García-Cañas;Anaëlle Tanniou

  • Chemical Constituents of Red Mexican Propolis

    Cinzia Lotti;Mercedes Campo Fernandez;Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Osmany Cuesta-Rubio

  • Chemical Characterization of Cuban Propolis by HPLC−PDA, HPLC−MS, and NMR: the Brown, Red, and Yellow Cuban Varieties of Propolis

    † Osmany Cuesta-Rubio;Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Mercedes Campo Fernandez;Ingrid Márquez Hernández

  • Green non-conventional techniques for the extraction of polyphenols from agricultural food by-products: A review

    Imma Pagano;Luca Campone;Rita Celano;Anna Lisa Piccinelli

  • Rate of degradation of alpha-tocopherol, squalene, phenolics, and polyunsaturated fatty acids in olive oil during different storage conditions.

    Luca Rastrelli;Siro Passi;Ferdinando Ippolito;Giovanni Vacca

  • An Overview on Citrus aurantium L.: Its Functions as Food Ingredient and Therapeutic Agent.

    Ipek Suntar;Haroon Khan;Seema Patel;Rita Celano

  • Metabolite profiling of licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) from different locations using comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography coupled to diode array and tandem mass spectrometry detection

    Lidia Montero;Elena Ibáñez;Mariateresa Russo;Rosa di Sanzo

  • Application of dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction for the determination of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereal products

    Luca Campone;Anna Lisa Piccinelli;Rita Celano;Luca Rastrelli

  • Determination of carbendazim, thiabendazole and thiophanate-methyl in banana (Musa acuminata) samples imported to Italy

    Attilio Veneziano;Giovanni Vacca;Swizly Arana;Francesco De Simone

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Patrizia Aquino
Rita Patrizia Aquino University of Salerno
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
Nunziatina De Tommasi
Nunziatina De Tommasi University of Salerno
Seyed Fazel Nabavi
Seyed Fazel Nabavi Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
Maria Daglia
Maria Daglia University of Naples Federico II
Wagner Vilegas
Wagner Vilegas Sao Paulo State University
Sonia Piacente
Sonia Piacente University of Salerno
Alejandro Cifuentes
Alejandro Cifuentes Spanish National Research Council
Elena Ibáñez
Elena Ibáñez Spanish National Research Council
Atanas G. Atanasov
Atanas G. Atanasov Medical University of Vienna

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