Targeting Nrf2/Keap1 signaling pathway by bioactive natural agents: Possible therapeutic strategy to combat liver disease

R Jayasuriya, U Dhamodharan, D Ali, K Ganesan, B Xu… - Phytomedicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (Nrf2), a stress-activated transcription
factor, has been documented to induce a defense mechanism against oxidative stress …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Nrf2 in chronic liver disease

W Tang, YF Jiang, M Ponnusamy… - World journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Nuclear erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a central regulator of antioxidative
response elements-mediated gene expression. It has a significant role in adaptive …

Parabacteroides distasonis ameliorates hepatic fibrosis potentially via modulating intestinal bile acid metabolism and hepatocyte pyroptosis in male mice

Q Zhao, MY Dai, RY Huang, JY Duan, T Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Parabacteroides distasonis (P. distasonis) plays an important role in human health,
including diabetes, colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. Here, we show that …

Hepatic 3D spheroid models for the detection and study of compounds with cholestatic liability

DFG Hendriks, L Fredriksson Puigvert, S Messner… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Drug-induced cholestasis (DIC) is poorly understood and its preclinical prediction is mainly
limited to assessing the compound's potential to inhibit the bile salt export pump (BSEP) …

Naturally occurring Nrf2 activators: potential in treatment of liver injury

RN Jadeja, KK Upadhyay, RV Devkar… - … Medicine and Cellular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidative stress plays a major role in acute and chronic liver injury. In hepatocytes, oxidative
stress frequently triggers antioxidant response by activating nuclear erythroid 2‐related …

Strong inhibitory activity and action modes of synthetic maslinic acid derivative on highly pathogenic coronaviruses: COVID-19 drug candidate

R Soltane, A Chrouda, A Mostafa, AA Al-Karmalawy… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
In late December 2019, a novel coronavirus, namely severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), escaped the animal–human interface and emerged as an …

Oleanolic acid alleviates ANIT-induced cholestatic liver injury by activating Fxr and Nrf2 pathways to ameliorate disordered bile acids homeostasis

J Liu, J Liu, C Meng, C Huang, F Liu, C Xia - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Cholestasis is a clinical syndrome with high incidence and few effective
treatments. Oleanolic acid (OA) is a triterpenoid compound with anti-cholestatic effects …

Antiviral activities of oleanolic acid and its analogues

V Khwaza, OO Oyedeji, BA Aderibigbe - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Viral diseases, such as human immune deficiency virus (HIV), influenza, hepatitis, and
herpes, are the leading causes of human death in the world. The shortage of effective …

Sterols and triterpenes: Antiviral potential supported by in-silico analysis

N Hisham Shady, KA Youssif, AM Sayed, L Belbahri… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The acute respiratory syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) caused
severe panic all over the world. The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has already brought …

NRF2 and FXR dual signaling pathways cooperatively regulate the effects of oleanolic acid on cholestatic liver injury

J Liu, J Liu, C Meng, Q Gu, C Huang, F Liu, C Xia - Phytomedicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Previous studies have shown that the anti-cholestatic effect of oleanolic acid
(OA) is associated with FXR and NRF2. However, how the two signaling pathways …