**7. Conclusions and future perspective**

Phenolic compounds of natural sources, herbs, foods, marine organisms, insects, and other natural sources, still maintain a crucial role in our daily health life in prevention and/or treatment. Therefore, a better utilization of extracts rich in phenolic compounds and/or isolated pure phenolic compounds, e.g., alkaloids, flavonoids, stilbenes, tannins, curcuminoids, coumarins, lignans, quinones, may help in providing the community with chemopreventive properties (e.g., antioxidant, anticarcinogenic, or antimutagenic and antiinflammatory effects). Moreover, phenolic compounds may also contribute in inducing apoptosis by arresting cell cycle, regulating carcinogen metabolism and ontogenesis expression, inhibiting DNA binding and cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, or differentiation, and blocking signaling pathways.

This chapter covers the foremost recent preclinical and clinical research from FAB-Lab and summarizes structural categories and molecular mechanisms of phenolic compounds from medicinal herbs and dietary plants.

Accordingly, the founding factors of FAB-Lab vision were to:


### **Acknowledgements**

The author acknowledges the support of Academy of Scientific Research and Technology ASRT, the Arab Development Fund, Kuwait, ICRO-UNESCO International, UNESCO Biotechnology, TWAS-ARO, CEC for both research and capacity building grants to FAB-Lab. Also, the author is deeply indebted to the unwavering support and sincere appreciation of Prof. Dr. W.T. Shier (University of Minnesota, USA, Prof. Dr. I. Khan, Prof. Dr. Charles Hufford, and Prof. Dr. M. El-Sohaly (University of Mississippi, USA), Prof. Dr. Francesca Pataculi (College of Medicine, University of Rome), Prof. A. Kumar (Assam University, India), Prof. Dr. Bharat B. Aggarwal (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas), Prof. Dr. Werner E. Müeller (Universität Mainz, Germany), Prof. Dirk Selmar (Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), Prof. Dr. Amarullah H. Siregar ((Indonesian Community on Functional Advancement Medicine, Jakarta, Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Ibraheim Jantan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), and Prof. Dr. Delgado (Havana, Cuba).
