Shikonin derivatives for cancer prevention and therapy

JC Boulos, M Rahama, MEF Hegazy, T Efferth - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Phytochemicals gained considerable interest during the past years as source to develop
new treatment options for chemoprevention and cancer therapy. Motivated by the fact that a …

Medicinal plants and phytochemicals against multidrug-resistant tumor cells expressing ABCB1, ABCG2, or ABCB5: a synopsis of 2 decades

T Efferth, O Kadioglu, MEM Saeed, EJ Seo… - Phytochemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Multidrug resistance is a major factor causing the failure of cancer chemotherapy. Efflux
pumps of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family expel a large array of diverse …

Cytotoxicity of apigenin toward multiple myeloma cell lines and suppression of iNOS and COX-2 expression in STAT1-transfected HEK293 cells

AN Adham, S Abdelfatah, AM Naqishbandi… - Phytomedicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Apigenin is one of the most abundant dietary flavonoids that possesses multiple
bio-functions. Purpose This study was designed to determine the influence of apigenin on …

In silico and in vitro screening of 50 curcumin compounds as EGFR and NF-κB inhibitors

MEM Saeed, R Yücer, M Dawood, MEF Hegazy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The improvement of cancer chemotherapy remains a major challenge, and thus new drugs
are urgently required to develop new treatment regimes. Curcumin, a polyphenolic …

N-acetylglycoside of oleanolic acid (aridanin) displays promising cytotoxicity towards human and animal cancer cells, inducing apoptotic, ferroptotic and necroptotic …

AT Mbaveng, GF Chi, IN Bonsou, S Abdelfatah… - Phytomedicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The discovery of novel phytochemicals represents a reasonable approach to
fight malignancies, especially those which are resistant to standard chemotherapy. Purpose …

SIRT1/PGC-1α/PPAR-γ correlate with hypoxia-induced chemoresistance in non-small cell lung cancer

R Xu, X Luo, X Ye, H Li, H Liu, Q Du, Q Zhai - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Resistance is the major cause of treatment failure and disease progression in non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC). There is evidence that hypoxia is a key microenvironmental stress …

Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of potent antibacterial medicinal plants from Africa

V Kuete - Advances in Botanical Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In this chapter, the traditional use, the phytochemical composition, and the pharmacological
activities of African medicinal plants displaying antibacterial effects were reported. We have …

The cardiac glycoside ZINC253504760 induces parthanatos-type cell death and G2/M arrest via downregulation of MEK1/2 phosphorylation in leukemia cells

M Zhou, JC Boulos, SM Klauck, T Efferth - Cell biology and toxicology, 2023 - Springer
Overcoming multidrug resistance (MDR) represents a major obstacle in cancer
chemotherapy. Cardiac glycosides (CGs) are efficient in the treatment of heart failure and …

Cytotoxicity of a naturally occuring spirostanol saponin, progenin III, towards a broad range of cancer cell lines by induction of apoptosis, autophagy and necroptosis

AT Mbaveng, GF Chi, GS Nguenang… - Chemico-Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study was aimed to investigate the cytotoxic potential of a natural compound, progenin
III on a broad range of cancer cell lines, including various sensitive and drug-resistant …

8, 8-bis-(Dihydroconiferyl)-diferulate displayed impressive cytotoxicity towards a panel of human and animal cancer cells

AT Mbaveng, F Damen, MGF Guefack, SB Tankeo… - Phytomedicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Recalcitrant cancers appear as a major obstacle to chemotherapy, prompting
scientists to intensify the search for novel drugs to tackle the cell lines expressing multi-drug …