Curcumin: an inflammasome silencer

S Hasanzadeh, MI Read, AR Bland, M Majeed… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Curcumin is the major bioactive polyphenolic ingredient of turmeric. Increasing evidence
indicates that the health benefits of curcumin are mediated through its anti-inflammatory and …

NLRP3 inflammasome and its inhibitors: a review

BZ Shao, ZQ Xu, BZ Han, DF Su, C Liu - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Inflammasomes are newly recognized, vital players in innate immunity. The best
characterized is the NLRP3 inflammasome, so-called because the NLRP3 protein in the …

Dietary sugars and endogenous formation of advanced glycation endproducts: emerging mechanisms of disease

M Aragno, R Mastrocola - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
The rapid increase in metabolic diseases, which occurred in the last three decades in both
industrialized and developing countries, has been related to the rise in sugar-added foods …

Inflammasome priming in sterile inflammatory disease

MN Patel, RG Carroll, S Galván-Peña, EL Mills… - Trends in molecular …, 2017 - cell.com
The inflammasome is a cytoplasmic protein complex that processes interleukins (IL)-1β and
IL-18, and drives a form of cell death known as pyroptosis. Oligomerization of this complex is …

[HTML][HTML] Ellagic acid ameliorates oxidative stress and insulin resistance in high glucose-treated HepG2 cells via miR-223/keap1-Nrf2 pathway

X Ding, T Jian, Y Wu, Y Zuo, J Li, H Lv, L Ma… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
As a promising new target, miR-233 may regulate oxidative stress by targeting keap1-Nrf2
system to affect the pathological process of liver injury in T2DM. Ellagic acid (EA) is versatile …

High dietary fructose: direct or indirect dangerous factors disturbing tissue and organ functions

DM Zhang, RQ Jiao, LD Kong - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
High dietary fructose is a major contributor to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome,
disturbing tissue and organ functions. Fructose is mainly absorbed into systemic circulation …

Relevant mediators involved in and therapies targeting the inflammatory response induced by activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in ischemic stroke

Q Xu, B Zhao, Y Ye, Y Li, Y Zhang, X Xiong… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor (NLR) family pyrin
domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is a member of the NLR family of inherent …

Role of thioredoxin-interacting protein in diseases and its therapeutic outlook

N Qayyum, M Haseeb, MS Kim, S Choi - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP), widely known as thioredoxin-binding protein 2
(TBP2), is a major binding mediator in the thioredoxin (TXN) antioxidant system, which …

The signaling pathways regulating NLRP3 inflammasome activation

M Chen, X Ye, X He, D Ouyang - Inflammation, 2021 - Springer
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multi-molecular complex that acts as a molecular platform to
mediate caspase-1 activation, leading to IL-1β/IL-18 maturation and release in cells …

NLRP3 inflammasome in ischemic stroke: as possible therapeutic target

M Alishahi, M Farzaneh… - … Journal of Stroke, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Inflammation is a devastating pathophysiological process during stroke, a devastating
disease that is the second most common cause of death worldwide. Activation of the NOD …