Naturally occurring anti-cancer compounds: shining from Chinese herbal medicine

H Luo, CT Vong, H Chen, Y Gao, P Lyu, L Qiu, M Zhao… - Chinese medicine, 2019 - Springer
Numerous natural products originated from Chinese herbal medicine exhibit anti-cancer
activities, including anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic, anti-metastatic, anti-angiogenic effects …

Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STATs) proteins in cancer and inflammation: functions and therapeutic implication

CY Loh, A Arya, AF Naema, WF Wong, G Sethi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT) pathway is connected upstream
with Janus kinases (JAK) family protein and capable of integrating inputs from different …

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 …

Ursolic acid-based derivatives as potential anti-cancer agents: An update

V Khwaza, OO Oyedeji, BA Aderibigbe - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ursolic acid is a pharmacologically active pentacyclic triterpenoid derived from medicinal
plants, fruit, and vegetables. The pharmacological activities of ursolic acid have been …

Targeting the JAK/STAT signaling pathway using phytocompounds for cancer prevention and therapy

S Bose, S Banerjee, A Mondal, U Chakraborty… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a prevalent cause of mortality around the world. Aberrated activation of Janus
kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling pathway …

Therapeutic modulators of STAT signalling for human diseases

G Miklossy, TS Hilliard, J Turkson - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
The signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins have important roles in
biological processes. The abnormal activation of STAT signalling pathways is also …

Potential role of natural compounds as anti-angiogenic agents in cancer

MK Shanmugam, S Warrier, AP Kumar… - Current vascular …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Neovascularization, also known as angiogenesis, is the process of capillary
sprouting from pre-existing blood vessels. This physiological process is a hallmark event in …

Thymoquinone inhibits bone metastasis of breast cancer cells through abrogation of the CXCR4 signaling axis

MK Shanmugam, KS Ahn, A Hsu, CC Woo… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Overexpression of chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) has been found to be associated
with increased cell proliferation, metastasis and also act as an indicator of poor prognosis in …

Ursolic acid in cancer prevention and treatment: molecular targets, pharmacokinetics and clinical studies

MK Shanmugam, X Dai, AP Kumar, BKH Tan… - Biochemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Discovery of bioactive molecules and elucidation of their molecular mechanisms open up an
enormous opportunity for the development of improved therapy for different inflammatory …

Cancer prevention and therapy through the modulation of transcription factors by bioactive natural compounds

MK Shanmugam, JH Lee, EZP Chai, MM Kanchi… - Seminars in cancer …, 2016 - Elsevier
The association between chronic inflammation and cancer development has been well
documented. One of the major obstacles in cancer treatment is the persistent autocrine and …