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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2014

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia from traditional chinese medicine.

Ya-Li Hsiao, Pei-Chun Chang, Hung-Jin Huang, Chia-Chen Kuo, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ya-Li HsiaoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-9952-037X
Pei-Chun ChangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-8771-801X
Hung-Jin HuangSchool of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan.
Chia-Chen KuoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.
Calvin Yu-Chian ChenDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan ; School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan.
Asia University · TWChina Medical University · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer that immature white blood cells continuously overproduce in the bone marrow. These cells crowd out normal cells in the bone marrow bringing damage and death. Methotrexate (MTX) is a drug used in the treatment of various cancer and autoimmune diseases. In particular, for the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, it had significant effect. MTX competitively inhibits dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), an enzyme that participates in the tetrahydrofolate synthesis so as to inhibit purine synthesis. In addition, its downstream metabolite methotrexate polyglutamates (MTX-PGs) inhibit the thymidylate synthase (TS). Therefore, MTX can inhibit the synthesis of DNA. However, MTX has cytotoxicity and neurotoxin may cause multiple organ injury and is potentially lethal. Thus, the lower toxicity drugs are necessary to be developed. Recently, diseases treatments with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as complements are getting more and more attention. In this study, we attempted to discover the compounds with drug-like potential for ALL treatment from the components in TCM. We applied virtual screen and QSAR models based on structure-based and ligand-based studies to identify the potential TCM component compounds. Our results show that the TCM compounds adenosine triphosphate, manninotriose, raffinose, and stachyose could have potential to improve the side effects of MTX for ALL treatment.

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