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ArticleCurrent drug targets2011

Identification of novel anti-inflammatory agents from Ayurvedic medicine for prevention of chronic diseases: "reverse pharmacology" and "bedside to bench" approach.

Bharat B Aggarwal, Sahdeo Prasad, Simone Reuter, Ramaswamy Kannappan, Vivek R Yadev, Byoungduck Park, Ji Hye Kim, Subash C Gupta, Kanokkarn Phromnoi, Chitra Sundaram and 3 more

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Article in Current drug targets, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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87citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
21.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 363 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bharat B AggarwalCytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. aggarwal@mdanderson.org
Sahdeo Prasad
Simone Reuter
Ramaswamy Kannappan
Vivek R Yadev
Byoungduck Park
Ji Hye Kim
Subash C Gupta
Kanokkarn Phromnoi
Chitra Sundaram
Seema Prasad
Madan M Chaturvedi
Bokyung Sung
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

TARGETING NF-KB ACTIVATION IN REGULATION OF SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLEP01CA124787 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI REUBEN, JAMES MARTIN · 2008 to 2012
$10.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA124787
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation, although first characterized by Cornelius Celsus, a physician in first Century Rome, it was Rudolf Virchow, a German physician in nineteenth century who suggested a link between inflammation and cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, pulmonary diseases, neurological diseases and other chronic diseases. Extensive research within last three decades has confirmed these observations and identified the molecular basis for most chronic diseases and for the associated inflammation. The transcription factor, Nuclear Factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) that controls over 500 different gene products, has emerged as major mediator of inflammation. Thus agents that can inhibit NF-kappaB and diminish chronic inflammation have potential to prevent or delay the onset of the chronic diseases and further even treat them. In an attempt to identify novel anti-inflammatory agents which are safe and effective, in contrast to high throughput screen, we have turned to "reverse pharmacology" or "bed to benchside" approach. We found that Ayurveda, a science of long life, almost 6,000 years old, can serve as a "goldmine" for novel anti-inflammatory agents used for centuries to treat chronic diseases. The current review is an attempt to provide description of various Ayurvedic plants currently used for treatment, their active chemical components, and the inflammatory pathways that they inhibit.

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Medicine, AyurvedicAnti-Inflammatory AgentsChronic DiseaseHumansAnti-Inflammatory Agents

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PMID21561421
PMCPMC3170500
OpenAlexW2137736893

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