Celastrol: a spectrum of treatment opportunities in chronic diseases

R Cascão, JE Fonseca, LF Moita - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The identification of new bioactive compounds derived from medicinal plants with significant
therapeutic properties has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Such is the case of …

Targeting transcription factor STAT3 for cancer prevention and therapy

EZP Chai, MK Shanmugam, F Arfuso… - Pharmacology & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs) comprise an important
class of transcription factors that have been implicated in a wide variety of essential cellular …

Molecular targets of celastrol in cancer: Recent trends and advancements

D Kashyap, A Sharma, HS Tuli, K Sak… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the advancement in the well-equipped and sophisticated laboratories and facilities,
cancer remains to be a major cause of death worldwide. Consequently, further investigation …

Anticancer effect of celastrol on human triple negative breast cancer: possible involvement of oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, apoptosis and PI3K/Akt …

S Shrivastava, MK Jeengar, VS Reddy… - … and molecular pathology, 2015 - Elsevier
Signaling via the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin
(mTOR) is crucial for divergent physiological processes including transcription, translation …

Recent advances in drug delivery of celastrol for enhancing efficiency and reducing the toxicity

Y Sun, C Wang, X Li, J Lu, M Wang - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Celastrol is a quinone methyl triterpenoid monomeric ingredient extracted from the root of
Tripterygium wilfordii. Celastrol shows potential pharmacological activities in various …

Tripterygium wilfordii bioactive compounds as anticancer and anti-inflammatory agents.

KF Wong, Y Yuan, JM Luk - Clinical & Experimental …, 2012 - search.ebscohost.com
Bioactive compounds from medicinal plants with anticancer and anti-inflammatory effects
have become key resources in drug discovery fields for the treatment of various …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular modulators of celastrol as the keystones for its diverse pharmacological activities

SW Ng, Y Chan, DK Chellappan… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the recent years, much attention has been focused on identifying bioactive compounds
from medicinal plants that could be employed in therapeutics, which is attributed to their …

Targeting the NF-κB pathway in cancer therapy

DJ Erstad, JC Cusack - Surgical Oncology Clinics, 2013 - surgonc.theclinics.com
The NF-kB pathway, which is ubiquitous in nature and evolutionarily conserved in most cell
types, 1 controls the expression of genes involved in multiple physiologic processes …

The natural compound magnolol inhibits invasion and exhibits potential in human breast cancer therapy

Y Liu, W Cao, B Zhang, Y Liu, Z Wang, Y Wu, X Yu… - Scientific Reports, 2013 - nature.com
Invasion and metastasis are the main causes of treatment failure and death in breast cancer.
Thus, novel invasion-based therapies such as those involving natural agents are urgently …

COVID-19. Pandemic surgery guidance

BLDM Brücher, G Nigri, A Tinelli, J Florencio… - 4 OPEN, 2020 - iris.uniroma1.it
Based on high quality surgery and scientific data, scientists and surgeons are committed to
protecting patients as well as healthcare staff and hereby provide this Guidance to address …