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ReviewTheScientificWorldJournal2013

Targeting apoptosis pathways in cancer with alantolactone and isoalantolactone.

Azhar Rasul, Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Ali, Jiang Li, Xiaomeng Li

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Review in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 106 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Azhar RasulThe Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China ; Dental Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun 130041, China.
Muhammad Khan
Muhammad Ali
Jiang Li
Xiaomeng Li
Northeast Normal University · CNBahauddin Zakariya University · PKJilin University · CNUniversity of the Punjab · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alantolactone and isoalantolactone, main bioactive compounds that are present in many medicinal plants such as Inula helenium, L. Inula japonica, Aucklandia lappa, Inula racemosa, and Radix inulae, have been found to have various pharmacological actions including anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer properties, with no significant toxicity. Recently, the anticancer activity of alantolactone and isoalantolactone has been extensively investigated. Here, our aim is to review their natural sources and their anticancer activity with specific emphasis on mechanism of actions, by which these compounds act on apoptosis pathways. Based on the literature and also on our previous results, alantolactone and isoalantolactone induce apoptosis by targeting multiple cellular signaling pathways that are frequently deregulated in cancers and suggest that their simultaneous targeting by these compounds could result in efficacious and selective killing of cancer cells. This review suggests that alantolactone and isoalantolactone are potential promising anticancer candidates, but additional studies and clinical trials are required to determine their specific intracellular sites of actions and derivative targets in order to fully understand the mechanisms of therapeutic effects to further validate in cancer chemotherapy.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsHumansLactonesNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasmsSesquiterpenesSesquiterpenes, EudesmanealantolactoneApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsisoalantolactoneLactonesNeoplasm ProteinsSesquiterpenesSesquiterpenes, Eudesmane

Identifiers

PMID24288468
PMCPMC3826378
OpenAlexW2168867105

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