Reactive oxygen species and cancer paradox: to promote or to suppress?

S Galadari, A Rahman, S Pallichankandy… - Free Radical Biology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), a group of highly reactive ions and molecules, are
increasingly being appreciated as powerful signaling molecules involved in the regulation of …

Targeting autophagy using natural compounds for cancer prevention and therapy

S Deng, MK Shanmugam, AP Kumar, CT Yap, G Sethi… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy, also known as macroautophagy, is a tightly regulated process involved in the
stress responses, such as starvation. It is a vacuolar, lysosomal pathway for the degradation …

Cleavage of GSDME by caspase-3 determines lobaplatin-induced pyroptosis in colon cancer cells

J Yu, S Li, J Qi, Z Chen, Y Wu, J Guo, K Wang… - Cell death & …, 2019 - nature.com
Pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death (PCD), has garnered increasing attention as it
relates to innate immunity and diseases. However, the involvement of pyroptosis in the …

Accumulation of polystyrene microplastics in juvenile Eriocheir sinensis and oxidative stress effects in the liver

P Yu, Z Liu, D Wu, M Chen, W Lv, Y Zhao - Aquatic toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
As a widespread and ubiquitous pollutant of marine ecosystems, microplastic has the
potential to become an emerging global threat for aquatic organisms. The present study …

[HTML][HTML] Celastrol induces ROS-mediated apoptosis via directly targeting peroxiredoxin-2 in gastric cancer cells

X Chen, Y Zhao, W Luo, S Chen, F Lin, X Zhang… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Oxidative stress from elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been
reported to induce cell apoptosis and may provide a means to target cancer cells. Celastrol …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of Mediterranean diet on metabolic syndrome, cancer and longevity

N Di Daniele, A Noce, MF Vidiri, E Moriconi… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Obesity symbolizes a major public health problem. Overweight and obesity are associated to
the occurrence of the metabolic syndrome and to adipose tissue dysfunction. The adipose …

Therapeutic potential of vital transcription factors in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease with particular emphasis on transcription factor EB mediated autophagy

SN Rai, N Tiwari, P Singh, D Mishra, AK Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy is an important cellular self-digestion and recycling pathway that helps in
maintaining cellular homeostasis. Dysregulation at various steps of the autophagic and …

Celastrol: a review of useful strategies overcoming its limitation in anticancer application

J Shi, J Li, Z Xu, L Chen, R Luo, C Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Celastrol, a natural bioactive ingredient derived from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, exhibits
significant broad-spectrum anticancer activities for the treatment of a variety of cancers …

Celastrol attenuates angiotensin II–induced cardiac remodeling by targeting STAT3

S Ye, W Luo, ZA Khan, G Wu, L Xuan, P Shan… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Excessive Ang II (angiotensin II) levels lead to a profibrotic and hypertrophic
milieu that produces deleterious remodeling and dysfunction in hypertension-associated …

Targeting drug chemo-resistance in cancer using natural products

WH Talib, AR Alsayed, M Barakat, MI Abu-Taha… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally. The development of drug resistance
is the main contributor to cancer-related mortality. Cancer cells exploit multiple mechanisms …