Drug repositioning: Progress and challenges in drug discovery for various diseases

Y Hua, X Dai, Y Xu, G Xing, H Liu, T Lu, Y Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional de novo drug discovery, drug repurposing has become an
attractive drug discovery strategy due to its low-cost and high efficiency. Through a …

Vitamin–Microbiota Crosstalk in Intestinal Inflammation and Carcinogenesis

Z Zhai, W Dong, Y Sun, Y Gu, J Ma, B Wang, H Cao - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colitis-associated colorectal cancer (CAC) are
common diseases of the digestive system. Vitamin deficiencies and gut microbiota dysbiosis …

Polysaccharides from natural Cordyceps sinensis attenuated dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis in C57BL/6J mice

S Chen, J Wang, N Dong, Q Fang, Y Zhang, C Chen… - Food & Function, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As potential candidates for treating ulcerative colitis (UC), polysaccharides have been
attracting extensive interest in recent years. Cordyceps sinensis (C. sinensis) is a kind of …

Nuciferine ameliorates high‐fat diet‐induced disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism in obese mice based on the gut–liver axis

X Zhu, R Hao, X Lv, X Zhou, D Li, C Zhang - Food Frontiers, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐fat diets (HFDs) can trigger lipid accumulation, insulin resistance, and inflammatory
responses in the body, causing glucose and lipid metabolism dysfunction. This study aimed …

Orlistat resensitizes sorafenib-resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma cells through modulating metabolism

PW Shueng, HW Chan, WC Lin, DY Kuo… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sorafenib is one of the options for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and has
been shown to extend median overall survival. However, sorafenib resistance often …

Nuciferine Protects against Obesity-Induced Nephrotoxicity through Its Hypolipidemic, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antioxidant Effects

X Zhu, F Si, R Hao, J Zheng… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High-fat diets (HFD) could cause obesity, trigger lipid accumulation, and induce oxidative
stress and inflammation, leading to kidney damage. This study aimed to elucidate the …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dose orlistat promotes the therapeutic effect of oxaliplatin in colorectal cancer

Q Zhang, Y Zhou, X Feng, Y Gao, C Huang… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The failure of and resistance to oxaliplatin (OXA)-based chemotherapies may lead to poor
prognosis in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. It has been reported that orlistat (Orli) exhibits …

Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Ethanolic Extract from Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC., Quercetin, and Anti-Obesity Drugs in Adipose Tissue in Wistar Rats with Diet-Induced …

A Barrios-Nolasco, A Domínguez-López… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Obesity is characterized by the excessive accumulation of fat, which triggers a low-grade
chronic inflammatory process. Currently, the search for compounds with anti-obesogenic …

[HTML][HTML] FABP5 suppresses colorectal cancer progression via mTOR-mediated autophagy by decreasing FASN expression

M Ye, C Hu, T Chen, P Yu, J Chen, F Lu… - … Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lipid metabolism plays an important role in the occurrence and development of cancer, in
particular, digestive system tumors such as colon cancer. Here, we investigated the role of …

Tabersonine attenuates obesity‐induced renal injury via inhibiting NF‐κB‐mediated inflammation

C Qian, J Wang, W Lin, Y Chen, J Yang… - Phytotherapy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity‐induced metabolic disorders can cause chronic inflammation in the whole body,
activating the nuclear factor kappa B (NF‐κB) pathway and inducing apoptosis. Therefore …