Curcumin and dimethoxycurcumin induced epigenetic changes in leukemia cells

HE Hassan, S Carlson, I Abdallah, T Buttolph… - Pharmaceutical …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Curcumin is an ideal chemopreventive and antitumor agent characterized by poor
bioavailability and low stability. The development of synthetic structural analogues like …

The combination of dimethoxycurcumin with DNA methylation inhibitor enhances gene re-expression of promoter-methylated genes and antagonizes their cytotoxic …

HE Hassan, JA Keita, L Narayan, SM Brady… - Epigenetics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Curcumin and its analogs exhibited antileukemic activity either as single agent or in
combination therapy. Dimethoxycurcumin (DMC) is a more metabolically stable curcumin …

Modulation of the activity of histone lysine methyltransferases and demethylases by curcumin analog in leukaemia cells

S Sawesi, SA Malkaram… - Journal of Cellular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Curcumin is a known epigenetic modifier that demonstrated antitumor effect in different types
of cancer. The poor solubility and metabolic stability are major drawbacks that limit its …

[HTML][HTML] Curcumin differentially affects cell cycle and cell death in acute and chronic myeloid leukemia cells

M Martínez-Castillo… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Curcumin is a phytochemical with potent anti-neoplastic properties. The antitumoral effects
of curcumin in cells derived from chronic or acute myeloid leukemia have been already …

Metabolism and anticancer activity of the curcumin analogue, dimethoxycurcumin

C Tamvakopoulos, K Dimas, ZD Sofianos… - Clinical Cancer …, 2007 - AACR
Purpose: The plant-derived compound curcumin has shown promising abilities as a cancer
chemoprevention and chemotherapy agent in vitro and in vivo but exhibits poor …

[PDF][PDF] Curcumin-mediated reversal of p15 gene promoter methylation: implication in anti-neoplastic action against acute lymphoid leukaemia cell line

V Sharma, AK Jha, A Kumar, A Bhatnagar, G Narayan… - Folia biologica, 2015 - fb.cuni.cz
Curcumin has been documented to exert anticancer effects by interacting with altered
proliferative and apoptotic pathways in cancer models. In this study, we evaluated the …

Curcumin derivatives: molecular basis of their anti-cancer activity

V Basile, E Ferrari, S Lazzari, S Belluti… - Biochemical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Curcumin, a phenolic compound from the plant Curcuma longa L., has shown a wide-
spectrum of chemopreventive, antioxidant and antitumor properties. Although its promising …

[HTML][HTML] Dimethoxycurcumin reduces proliferation and induces apoptosis in renal tumor cells more efficiently than demethoxycurcumin and curcumin

TA Zanetti, BI Biazi, GC Coatti, A Baranoski… - Chemico-Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Curcumin (Cur), is a pigment with antiproliferative activity but has some pharmacokinetic
limitations, which led researchers to look for more effective structure analogs. This work …

Antineoplastic potential of curcumin (cooperative study in Bulgaria and Germany)

Y Ilieva, K Kaloyanov, D Yosifov, B Robev… - Phytochemistry …, 2014 - Springer
The unfavorable safety of existing anticancer medications and the issue of multidrug
resistance have fuelled the search for novel plant compounds as potential antineoplastic …

[HTML][HTML] Mitotic spindle defects and DNA damage induced by dimethoxycurcumin lead to an intrinsic apoptosis pathway in HepG2/C3A cells

TA Zanetti, BI Biazi, GC Coatti, A Baranoski… - Toxicology In Vitro, 2019 - Elsevier
Dimethoxycurcumin (DiMC), a synthetic analog of curcumin, was shown to have
antiproliferative activity in human tumor cell lines. Therefore, we investigated its cytotoxic …