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Shah, MA, Adnan, M, Rasul, A, Hussain, G, Sarfraz, I, Nageen, B, Riaz, A, Khalid, R, Asrar, M, Selamoglu, Z, Adem, Ş and Sarker, SD (2020) Physcion and Physcion 8-O-β-D-glucopyranoside: Natural Anthraquinones with Potential Anti-cancer Activities. Current Drug Targets. ISSN 1389-4501
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Abstract
Nature has provided prodigious reservoirs of pharmacologically active compounds for drug development since times. Physcion and physcion 8-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (PG) are bioactive natural anthraquinones which exert anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties with minimum or no adverse effects. Moreover, physcion also exhibits anti-microbial and hepatoprotective properties while PG is known to have anti-sepsis as well as ameliorative activities against dementia. This review aims to highlight the natural sources and anti-cancer activities of physcion and PG along with asso-ciated mechanisms of actions. On the basis of the literature, physcion and PG regulate multitudinous cell signaling path-ways through the modulation of various regulators of cell cycle, protein kinases, microRNAs, transcriptional factors, and apoptosis linked proteins resulting in the effective killing of cancerous cells in vitro as well as in vivo. Both compounds effectively suppress metastasis, furthermore, physcion acts as inhibitor of 6PGD and also play an important role in chemosensitization. This review article suggests that physcion and PG are potent anti-cancer drug candidates but further investigations on their mechanism of action and pre-clinical trials are mandatory in order to comprehend the full potential of these natural cancer killers in anti-cancer remedies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1115 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
| Divisions: | Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences |
| Publisher: | Bentham Science Publishers |
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| Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2020 12:08 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2021 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.2174/1389450121999201013154542 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13924 |
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