From ancient herb to modern drug: Artemisia annua and artemisinin for cancer therapy

T Efferth - Seminars in cancer biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Artemisia annua L. is used throughout Asia and Africa as tea and press juice to treat malaria
and related symptomes (fever, chills). Its active ingredient, artemisinin (ARS), has been …

[HTML][HTML] Development of nanoscale drug delivery systems of dihydroartemisinin for cancer therapy: A review

KH Wong, D Yang, S Chen, C He, M Chen - Asian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), a first-line antimalarial drug, has demonstrated great
anticancer effects in many types of tumors, including liver cancer, glioblastoma, and …

Dihydroartemisinin inhibits the proliferation, colony formation and induces ferroptosis of lung cancer cells by inhibiting PRIM2/SLC7A11 axis

B Yuan, F Liao, ZZ Shi, Y Ren, XL Deng… - OncoTargets and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Lung cancer is the first leading cause of cancer-related deaths both worldwide
and in China and threatens human health and quality of life. New drugs and therapeutic …

Artesunate induces autophagy dependent apoptosis through upregulating ROS and activating AMPK-mTOR-ULK1 axis in human bladder cancer cells

X Zhou, Y Chen, F Wang, H Wu, Y Zhang, J Liu… - Chemico-Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Artesunate is a kind of derivative of artemisinin, which possesses potent anti-cancer effect in
addition to its anti-malarial property. And autophagy was a highly conserved process …

Artemisinin-type drugs for the treatment of hematological malignancies

RI Mancuso, MA Foglio, ST Olalla Saad - Cancer chemotherapy and …, 2021 - Springer
Qinghaosu, known as artemisinin (ARS), has been for over two millennia, one of the most
common herbs prescribed in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). ARS was developed as …

Cancer combination therapies with artemisinin-type drugs

T Efferth - Biochemical pharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Artemisia annua L. is a Chinese medicinal plant, which is used throughout Asia and Africa
as tea or press juice to treat malaria. The bioactivity of its chemical constituent, artemisinin is …

Recent pharmacological advances in the repurposing of artemisinin drugs

Y Meng, N Ma, H Lyu, YK Wong… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artemisinins are a family of sesquiterpene lactones originally derived from the sweet
wormwood (Artemisia annua). Beyond their well‐characterized role as frontline antimalarial …

Artemisinin and its derivatives: A potential treatment for leukemia

NS Lam, X Long, JW Wong, RC Griffin… - Anti-Cancer …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Artemisinin (ART) and its derivatives are one of the most important classes of antimalarial
agents, originally derived from a Chinese medicinal plant called Artemisia annua L. Beyond …

Artemisinin–second career as anticancer drug?

T Efferth - World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Artemisinin represents a showcase example not only for the activity of medicinal herbs
deriving from traditional chinese medicine, but for phytotherapy in general. Its isolation from …

Dihydroartemisinin increases gemcitabine therapeutic efficacy in ovarian cancer by inducing reactive oxygen species

S Yang, D Zhang, N Shen, G Wang… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ovarian cancer is the major cause of death in women gynecological malignancy and
gemcitabine (GEM) is commonly used in related chemotherapy. However, more than 90 …