Toad venom bufadienolides and bufotoxins: An updated review

AM Asrorov, M Kayumov… - Drug Development …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bufadienolides, naturally found in toad venoms having steroid‐like structures, reveal
antiproliferative effects at low doses. However, their application as anticancer drugs is …

Molecular mechanisms of bufadienolides and their novel strategies for cancer treatment

LJ Deng, Y Li, M Qi, JS Liu, S Wang, LJ Hu… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bufadienolides are cardioactive C24 steroids with an α-pyrone ring at position C17. In the
last ten years, accumulating studies have revealed the anticancer activities of …

Drug–target prediction utilizing heterogeneous bio-linked network embeddings

N Zong, RSN Wong, Y Yu, A Wen… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
To enable modularization for network-based prediction, we conducted a review of known
methods conducting the various subtasks corresponding to the creation of a drug–target …

Arenobufagin, isolated from toad venom, inhibited epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and suppressed migration and invasion of lung cancer cells via targeting IKKβ …

J Zhao, Q Zhang, G Zou, G Gao, Q Yue - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer incidence and
mortality worldwide. Arenobufagin (Arg), a representative natural bufadienolide compound …

Enhanced cytotoxic effects of arenite in combination with active bufadienolide compounds against human glioblastoma cell line U-87

B Yuan, J Li, SI Miyashita, H Kikuchi, M Xuan… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cytotoxicity of a trivalent arsenic derivative (arsenite, AsIII) combined with arenobufagin
or gamabufotalin was evaluated in human U-87 glioblastoma cells. Synergistic cytotoxicity …

[HTML][HTML] Natural compounds in the regulation of proteostatic pathways: An invincible artillery against stress, ageing, and diseases

A Upadhyay - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Cells have different sets of molecules for performing an array of physiological functions.
Nucleic acids have stored and carried the information throughout evolution, whereas …

Arenobufagin induces apoptotic cell death in human non-small-cell lung cancer cells via the noxa-related pathway

L Ma, Y Zhu, S Fang, H Long, X Liu, Z Liu - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Arenobufagin, an active component isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine Chan Su,
exhibits anticancer influences in several human malignancies. However, the effects and …

Affinity-based protein profiling reveals cellular targets of photoreactive anticancer inhibitors

N Ma, ZM Zhang, JS Lee, K Cheng, L Lin… - ACS Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Affinity-based protein profiling has proven to be a powerful method in target identification of
bioactive molecules. Here, this technology was applied in two photoreactive anticancer …

Temperature-sensitive gel-loaded composite nanomedicines for the treatment of cervical cancer by vaginal delivery

S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Wang, T Guo, X Hou, Z He… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, toad venom (TV) and realgar were loaded into a poloxamer 188/407
(F127/F188)-based temperature-sensitive in situ gel (TISG) and encapsulated in solid lipid …

Ethanol Exposure to Ethanol-Oxidizing HEPG2 Cells Induces Intracellular Protein Aggregation

PG Thomes, G Rensch, CA Casey, TM Donohue Jr - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Aggresomes are collections of intracellular protein aggregates. In liver cells of
patients with alcoholic hepatitis, aggresomes appear histologically as cellular inclusions …