[PMID]: | 26503558 |
[Au] Autor: | Cai Y; Fang X; He C; Li P; Xiao F; Wang Y; Chen M |
[Ad] Endereço: | * State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau 999078, P.R. China. |
[Ti] Título: | Cucurbitacins: A Systematic Review of the Phytochemistry and Anticancer Activity. |
[So] Source: | Am J Chin Med;43(7):1331-50, 2015. |
[Is] ISSN: | 0192-415X |
[Cp] País de publicação: | Singapore |
[La] Idioma: | eng |
[Ab] Resumo: | Cucurbitacins are highly oxidized tetracyclic triterpenoids that are widely present in traditional Chinese medicines (Cucurbitaceae family), possess strong anticancer activity, and are divided into 12 classes from A to T with over 200 derivatives. The eight most active cucurbitacin components against cancer are cucurbitacin B, D, E, I, IIa, L glucoside, Q, and R. Their mechanisms of action include antiproliferation, inhibition of migration and invasion, proapoptosis, and cell cycle arrest promotion. Cucurbitacins are also found to be the inhibitors of JAK-STAT3, Wnt, PI3K/Akt, and MAPK signaling pathways, which play important roles in the apoptosis and survival of cancer cells. Recently, new studies have discovered synergistic anticancer effects by using cucurbitacins together with clinically approved chemotherapeutic drugs, such as docetaxel and methotrexate. This paper provides a summary of recent research progress on the anticancer property of cucurbitacins and the various intracellular signaling pathways involved in the regulation of cancer cell proliferation, death, invasion, and migration. Therefore, cucurbitacins are a class of promising anticancer drugs to be used alone or be intergraded in current chemotherapies and radiotherapies to treat many types of cancers. |
[Mh] Termos MeSH primário: |
Antineoplásicos Fitogênicos Cucurbitacinas/farmacologia Cucurbitacinas/uso terapêutico Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico Neoplasias/patologia Fitoterapia
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[Mh] Termos MeSH secundário: |
Animais Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos Pontos de Checagem do Ciclo Celular/efeitos dos fármacos Linhagem Celular Tumoral Movimento Celular/efeitos dos fármacos Proliferação Celular/efeitos dos fármacos Transformação Celular Neoplásica/efeitos dos fármacos Cucurbitacinas/química Cucurbitacinas/classificação Quimioterapia Combinada Seres Humanos Metotrexato/uso terapêutico Conformação Molecular Invasividade Neoplásica Transdução de Sinais/efeitos dos fármacos Relação Estrutura-Atividade Taxoides/uso terapêutico
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[Pt] Tipo de publicação: | JOURNAL ARTICLE; META-ANALYSIS; RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T |
[Nm] Nome de substância:
| 0 (Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic); 0 (Taxoids); 15H5577CQD (docetaxel); 60137-06-6 (Cucurbitacins); YL5FZ2Y5U1 (Methotrexate) |
[Em] Mês de entrada: | 1609 |
[Cu] Atualização por classe: | 151207 |
[Lr] Data última revisão:
| 151207 |
[Sb] Subgrupo de revista: | IM |
[Da] Data de entrada para processamento: | 151028 |
[St] Status: | MEDLINE |
[do] DOI: | 10.1142/S0192415X15500755 |
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