Role of ceramide/sphingomyelin (SM) balance regulated through “SM cycle” in cancer

M Taniguchi, T Okazaki - Cellular signalling, 2021 - Elsevier
Sphingomyelin synthase (SMS), which comprises of two isozymes, SMS1 and SMS2, is the
only enzyme that generates sphingomyelin (SM) by transferring phosphocholine of …

Plant-derived natural products in cancer research: extraction, mechanism of action, and drug formulation

WH Talib, I Alsalahat, S Daoud, RF Abutayeh… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the main causes of death globally and considered as a major challenge for
the public health system. The high toxicity and the lack of selectivity of conventional …

Importance of thymoquinone, sulforaphane, phloretin, and epigallocatechin and their health benefits

MH Shahrajabian, W Sun - Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
Natural products have a broad diversity of multidimensional chemical formations, which play
an important role, and indicate the crucial nature as a golden source for gaining herbal drug …

Emerging roles of ceramides in breast cancer biology and therapy

P Pal, GE Atilla-Gokcumen, J Frasor - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the classic hallmarks of cancer is the imbalance between elevated cell proliferation
and reduced cell death. Ceramide, a bioactive sphingolipid that can regulate this balance …

NAT10, an RNA cytidine acetyltransferase, regulates ferroptosis in cancer cells

MH Dalhat, H Choudhry, MI Khan - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, we reported that N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10) regulates fatty acid metabolism
through ac4C-dependent RNA modification of key genes in cancer cells. During this work …

Thymoquinone and costunolide induce apoptosis of both proliferative and doxorubicin-induced-senescent colon and breast cancer cells

AH El-Far, K Godugu, AE Noreldin… - Integrative Cancer …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Doxorubicin (Dox) induces senescence in numerous cancer cell types, but these senescent
cancer cells relapse again if they are not eliminated. On this principle, we investigated the …

Identifying synergistic combinations of Doxorubicin-Loaded polyquercetin nanoparticles and natural Products: Implications for breast cancer therapy

S Sunoqrot, S Abusulieh, OH Abusara - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combining chemotherapeutic agents with bioactive natural products is an attractive cancer
treatment modality to reduce the dose and side effects of chemotherapy. Combination …

Recent findings on thymoquinone and its applications as a nanocarrier for the treatment of cancer and rheumatoid arthritis

RR Pal, V Rajpal, P Singh, SA Saraf - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer causes a considerable amount of mortality in the world, while arthritis is an
immunological dysregulation with multifactorial pathogenesis including genetic and …

Curcumin, thymoquinone, and 3, 3′-diindolylmethane combinations attenuate lung and liver cancers progression

AA Saddiq, AH El-Far… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cancer can develop due to abnormal cell proliferation in any body's cells, so there are over
a hundred different types of cancer, each with its distinct behavior and response to …

[HTML][HTML] Ceramide glycosylation and related enzymes in cancer signaling and therapy

Z Li, L Zhang, D Liu, C Wang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Ceramides, the core of the sphingolipid metabolism, draw wide attention as tumor
suppressor, and act directly on mitochondria to trigger apoptotic cell death. Ceramide-based …