[HTML][HTML] Celastrol: a review of useful strategies overcoming its limitation in anticancer application

J Shi, J Li, Z Xu, L Chen, R Luo, C Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Celastrol, a natural bioactive ingredient derived from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, exhibits
significant broad-spectrum anticancer activities for the treatment of a variety of cancers …

Celastrol in cancer therapy: Recent developments, challenges and prospects

HY Lim, PS Ong, L Wang, A Goel, L Ding, ALA Wong… - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the world's biggest healthcare burdens and despite the current
advancements made in treatment plans, the outcomes for oncology patients have yet to …

[HTML][HTML] Celastrol as an emerging anticancer agent: Current status, challenges and therapeutic strategies

C Wang, S Dai, X Zhao, Y Zhang, L Gong, K Fu… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Celastrol is a pentacyclic triterpenoid extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F., which has multiple pharmacological activities. In particular …

Celastrol: progresses in structure-modifications, structure-activity relationships, pharmacology and toxicology

W Hou, B Liu, H Xu - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Celastrol, a principal bioactive ingredient of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, has gained
extensive exploration due to its unique structure features and multiple promising biological …

Biosynthesis, total synthesis, structural modifications, bioactivity, and mechanism of action of the quinone‐methide triterpenoid celastrol

Y Lu, Y Liu, J Zhou, D Li, W Gao - Medicinal research reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Celastrol, a quinone‐methide triterpenoid, was extracted from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F.
in 1936 for the first time. Almost 70 years later, it is considered one of the molecules most …

Molecular targets of celastrol in cancer: Recent trends and advancements

D Kashyap, A Sharma, HS Tuli, K Sak… - Critical Reviews in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the advancement in the well-equipped and sophisticated laboratories and facilities,
cancer remains to be a major cause of death worldwide. Consequently, further investigation …

Enhanced cancer therapy of celastrol in vitro and in vivo by smart dendrimers delivery with specificity and biosafety

P Ge, B Niu, Y Wu, W Xu, M Li, H Sun, H Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Celastrol, a pentacyclic triterpene extracted from the roots of Tripterygium Wilfordi (thunder
god vine) plant, has shown promising antitumor activities in various preclinical studies …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on celastrol, triptolide and triptonide: Insights on their pharmacological activity, toxicity, combination therapy, new dosage form and …

J Song, GN He, L Dai - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Celastrol, triptolide and triptonide are the most significant active ingredients of Tripterygium
wilfordii Hook F (TWHF). In 2007, the 'Cell'journal ranked celastrol, triptolide, artemisinin …

Celastrol suppresses angiogenesis-mediated tumor growth through inhibition of AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway

X Pang, Z Yi, J Zhang, B Lu, B Sung, W Qu… - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Understanding the molecular basis and target of traditional medicine is critical for drug
development. Celastrol, derived from Trypterygium wilfordii Hook F.(“Thunder of God Vine”) …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular modulators of celastrol as the keystones for its diverse pharmacological activities

SW Ng, Y Chan, DK Chellappan… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the recent years, much attention has been focused on identifying bioactive compounds
from medicinal plants that could be employed in therapeutics, which is attributed to their …