Morin: a promising natural drug

A Caselli, P Cirri, A Santi, P Paoli - Current medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Morin is a natural polyphenol, originally isolated from members of the Moraceae family that
can be extracted from leaves, fruits, stems and branches of numerous plants. Several …

Modulation of the activity of ABC transporters (P-glycoprotein, MRP2, BCRP) by flavonoids and drug response

AI Alvarez, R Real, M Pérez, G Mendoza… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The present article aims to review the up-to-date information on the most recent studies of
the interaction of flavonoids with ABC transporters, in particular the drug pharmacokinetic …

Probenecid, a gout remedy, inhibits pannexin 1 channels

W Silverman, S Locovei, G Dahl - American journal of …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Probenecid is a well-established drug for the treatment of gout and is thought to act on an
organic anion transporter, thereby affecting uric acid excretion in the kidney by blocking …

Morin as an imminent functional food ingredient: An update on its enhanced efficacy in the treatment and prevention of metabolic syndromes

K Thakur, YY Zhu, JY Feng, JG Zhang, F Hu… - Food & function, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Flavonoids represent polyphenolic plant secondary metabolites with a general structure of a
15-carbon skeleton comprising two phenyl rings and a heterocyclic ring. Over 5000 natural …

Morin, a bioflavonoid suppresses monosodium urate crystal-induced inflammatory immune response in RAW 264.7 macrophages through the inhibition of …

C Dhanasekar, S Kalaiselvan, M Rasool - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Our previous studies had reported that morin, a bioflavanoid exhibited potent anti-
inflammatory effect against adjuvant-induced arthritic rats. In this current study, we …

Effect of hypouricaemic and hyperuricaemic drugs on the renal urate efflux transporter, multidrug resistance protein 4

AAK El‐Sheikh, JJMW Van Den Heuvel… - British journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose: The xanthine oxidase inhibitors allopurinol and oxypurinol are
used to treat hyperuricaemia, whereas loop and thiazide diuretics can cause iatrogenic …

Effects of onion on serum uric acid levels and hepatic xanthine dehydrogenase/xanthine oxidase activities in hyperuricemic rats.

F Haidari, MR Rashidi, SA Keshavarz… - Pakistan journal of …, 2008 - europepmc.org
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of onion on serum uric acid levels and
hepatic Xanthine Dehydrogenase/Xanthine Oxidase activities in normal and hyperuricemic …

Mechanism of high affinity inhibition of the human urate transporter URAT1

PK Tan, TM Ostertag, JN Miner - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Gout is caused by elevated serum urate levels, which can be treated using inhibitors of the
uric acid transporter, URAT1. We exploited affinity differences between the human and rat …

Discovery and Characterization of Moracin C as an Anti-Gouty Arthritis/Hyperuricemia Candidate by Docking-Based Virtual Screening and Pharmacological …

M Lv, S Jiang, S Deng, Z Zhao, Z Yang… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the present study, a natural product database of compounds associated with herbs
traditionally verified to treat gout/hyperuricemia/arthritis was constructed. 3D-shape and …

Pharmacological evaluation of a novel skeleton compound isobavachin (4′, 7-dihydroxy-8-prenylflavanone) as a hypouricemic agent: Dual actions of URAT1/GLUT9 …

Z Zhao, J Luo, H Liao, F Zheng, X Chen, J Luo… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previously we discovered a novel natural scaffold compound, isobavachin (4′, 7-dihydroxy-
8-prenylflavanone), as a potent URAT1 inhibitor by shape and structure based on a virtue …