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Dihydroartemisinin initiates ferroptosis in glioblastoma through GPX4 inhibition.
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- The Role of Artemisinin and its Derivatives in Cancer Therapy via Ferroptosis: A Systematic Review ofAnti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Nanoparticle-Mediated Ferroptosis in Glioma Therapy.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Pooled it
- Ferroptosis in glioma treatment: Current situation, prospects and drug applications.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Targeting Ferroptosis in Glioblastoma: Molecular Mechanisms, Tumor Microenvironment, and Therapeutic Opportunities.Cancers · 2026Review
- Research Progress on Chinese Herbal Medicine Components Targeting Ferroptosis for Cancer Therapy.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Traditional Chinese Medicine-Derived Active Ingredient and Formulation Therapy for Glioma: Multi-Target Mechanisms, Drug Delivery Systems, and Advances in Clinical Translational Research.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Bufalin Suppresses Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Through ER Stress-Ferroptosis Crosstalk Associated with IPInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Therapeutic profiling of dihydroartemisinin using in vitro and in vivo models reveals anti-glioma potential.Cancer cell international · 2026Article
- Ferroptosis-induced immune modulation: a new frontier in glioblastoma therapy.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
- The Role of Se-Containing Glutathione Peroxidases and Thioredoxin Reductases in Oncogenesis: Expression Paradoxes and Therapeutic Prospects.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Ferroptosis and metabolic reprogramming in the immunosuppressive microenvironment of glioblastoma: emerging mechanisms and novel strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Development and validation of a novel glioblastoma prognostic model: identifying STOX1 and ZNF248 as ferroptosis-related biomarkers.Cancer cell international · 2025Article
- Gut Microbiota and Ferroptosis in Colorectal Cancer: A Comprehensive Review of Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies to Overcome Immune Checkpoint Resistance.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Ferroptosis as a therapeutic target in glioblastoma: Mechanisms and emerging strategies.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2025Review
- Global research landscape and hotspots for ferroptosis in glioma: A comprehensive bibliometric and visual analysis.Heliyon · 2025Review
- PROTAC-Surufatinib Suppresses Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Progression by Inducing Ferroptosis through Inhibiting WNT/β-catenin Pathway Mediated by HMOX1.International journal of biological sciences · 2025Article
- Dihydroartemisinin: A Promising Therapeutic Agent Against the Hepatitis-to-Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cascade.Drug design, development and therapy · 2025Review
- Repurposing Artemisinin-Based Drugs from Antimalarial to Pan-Therapeutic: Pharmacological Promise and Therapeutic Challenges.Drug design, development and therapy · 2025Review
- Natural products targeting ferroptosis in cancer: molecular mechanisms and applications.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- A Gene Signature Developed Based on Reactive Oxygen Species to Predict the Metabolism, Immunity, Mutational Status, and Prognostic Survival for Glioblastoma.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
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Abstract
It has been demonstrated from previous studies about the killing effect of dihydroartemisinin (DHA) on glioblastoma, which involves multiple aspects: cytotoxicity, cell cycle arrest and invasion inhibition. DHA has the advantages of low cytotoxicity to normal cells, selective killing effect and low drug resistance, making it one of the popular anti-tumor research directions. Ferroptosis is a newly discovered form of cell death characterized by iron dependence and lipid reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation. In the present study, we found differences in the expression of transferrin receptors in normal human astrocytes (NHA) and glioblastoma cells (U87 and A172), which may be one of the mechanisms of DHA selective killing effect. Through the determination of ferroptosis-related protein expression, we found that the significant decrease of GPX4, accompanied by the constant expression of xCT and ACSL4, suggesting GPX4 was a pivotal target for DHA-activated ferroptosis in glioblastoma. Total and lipid ROS levels were increased and all these results could be reversed by the ferroptosis inhibitor, ferrostatin-1. These findings demonstrated ferroptosis would be a critical component of cell death caused by DHA and GPX4 was the main target. All these results provide a novel treatment direction to glioblastoma. The association between ferroptosis and polyamines is also discussed, which will provide new research directions for ferroptosis caused by DHA in glioblastoma.
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