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Bioactive Natural Products for Treatment of Human Disease
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Bioactive Natural Products for Treatment of Human Disease

A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Biology and Pathology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 3597

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hyun-jung Park

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Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyonggi University, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea
Interests: phytomedicine; natural products; bioactive compounds

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Natural products have a history of being used as traditional medicines in many countries for treating disease and maintaining health. Bioactive natural products are now regarded as an important repository for the development of potential novel drugs. Extensive research on the preventative and therapeutic effects of bioactive natural products necessitates regular reporting of the literature as to the updating potential roles of these compounds in different human diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, aging, obesity, and neurodegeneration.

With this Special Issue, we aim to provide the current findings on the pharmacological and clinical features of natural products with defined molecular compounds, the pharmacology of naturally occurring compounds, and the role of bioactive natural products in human health and disease. 

Dr. Hyun-jung Park
Guest Editor

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  • natural compounds
  • phytochemical
  • human disease

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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Allocryptopine via the Target on the CX3CL1–CX3CR1 axis/GNB5/AKT/NF-κB/Apoptosis in Dextran Sulfate-Induced Mice
by Yang Yang, Tingyu Ding, Gang Xiao, Jialu Huang, Dan Luo, Meishan Yue, Yue Su, Sujuan Jiang, Jianguo Zeng and Yisong Liu
Biomedicines 2023, 11(2), 464; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11020464 - 05 Feb 2023
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Allocryptopine (ALL) is an isoquinoline alkaloid extracted from Macleaya cordata(Willd). R. Br., which has been claimed to have anti-inflammatory and neuroprotection properties. However, the mechanism by which ALL ameliorates inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unclear. Here, we used network pharmacology and [...] Read more.
Allocryptopine (ALL) is an isoquinoline alkaloid extracted from Macleaya cordata(Willd). R. Br., which has been claimed to have anti-inflammatory and neuroprotection properties. However, the mechanism by which ALL ameliorates inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unclear. Here, we used network pharmacology and quantitative proteomic approaches to investigate the effect of ALL on IBD pathogenesis. Network pharmacology predicted potential targets and signaling pathways of ALL’s anti-IBD effects. As predicted by network pharmacology, gene ontology (GO) analysis, in terms of the proteomic results, showed that the immune response in mucosa and antimicrobial humoral response were enriched. Further study revealed that the ALL-related pathways were the chemokine signaling pathway and apoptosis in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). In addition, we identified AKT1 as a hub for the critical pathways through protein–protein interaction (PPI) network analysis. Similar to mesalazine (MES), Western blot verified that ALL downregulated upstream chemokine CX3CL1 and GNB5 content to reduce phosphorylation of AKT and NF-κB, as well as the degree of apoptosis, to improve inflammatory response in the colon. Our research may shed light on the mechanism by which ALL inhibits the CX3CL1/GNB5/AKT2/NF-κB/apoptosis pathway and improves the intestinal barrier to reduce colitis response and act on the CX3CL1–CX3CR1 axis to achieve neuroprotection. Full article
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Action of Curcumin on Glioblastoma Growth: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of Animal Model Studies
by Ângelo Luís, Leonor Amaral, Fernanda Domingues, Luísa Pereira and José Francisco Cascalheira
Biomedicines 2024, 12(2), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12020268 - 24 Jan 2024
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Gliomas are aggressive brain tumors with poor prognosis even after surgical removal and radio-chemotherapy, stressing the urgency to find alternative therapies. Several preclinical studies evaluating the anticancer effect of curcumin in animal models of glioma are reported, but a systematic review with meta-analysis [...] Read more.
Gliomas are aggressive brain tumors with poor prognosis even after surgical removal and radio-chemotherapy, stressing the urgency to find alternative therapies. Several preclinical studies evaluating the anticancer effect of curcumin in animal models of glioma are reported, but a systematic review with meta-analysis of these studies, considering the different experimental conditions used, has not been made up to this date. A search in different databases (Pubmed, Web of Science, Scopus, and SciELO) following the PRISMA statement was conducted during November 2023 to systematically identify articles assessing the effect of curcumin in murine xenograft models of glioma and identified 15 articles, which were subdivided into 24 studies. Tumor volume before and after treatment with curcumin or vehicle was extracted and the efficacy of curcumin was evaluated by performing a random effects meta-analysis of the data. Publication bias and the impact of different experimental conditions on curcumin efficacy were assessed. Treatment with curcumin decreased tumor volume. Comparing curcumin with control groups, the overall weighted standardized difference in means was −2.079 (95% CI: −2.816 to −1.341; p-value < 0.001). The curcumin effect was observed for different animal models, types of glioma cells, administration routes, and curcumin formulations. Publication bias was identified but does not invalidate curcumin’s effectiveness. The findings suggest the potential therapeutic efficacy of curcumin against glioma. Full article
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