ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021
Maprotiline Suppresses Cholesterol Biosynthesis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression Through Direct Targeting of CRABP1.
Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Advances in Lipid Metabolism Reprogramming in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2026Review
- Metabolic reprogramming-driven resistance to multi-kinase inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- Metabolic Reprogramming-Targeted Therapeutic Strategies in Primary Liver Cancer: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2026Article
- O-GlcNAcylation of SPOP regulates colorectal cancer progression and ferroptosis by mediating β-catenin degradation.Cell death discovery · 2025Article
- Targeting the akt/mtor signaling pathway by maprotiline leads to tumor suppression in T-cell lymphoma.Annals of hematology · 2025Article
- Drug repurposing in oncology: a path beyond the bottleneck.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Review
- Network Medicine-Based Strategy Identifies Maprotiline as a Repurposable Drug by Inhibiting PD-L1 Expression via Targeting SPOP in Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Advances in Targeted Drug Resistance Associated with Dysregulation of Lipid Metabolism in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2024Review
- KCTD4 interacts with CLIC1 to disrupt calcium homeostasis and promote metastasis in esophageal cancer.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2023Article
- Lipid metabolism of hepatocellular carcinoma impacts targeted therapy and immunotherapy.World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2023Review
- Blockade of Nuclear β-Catenin Signaling via Direct Targeting of RanBP3 with NU2058 Induces Cell Senescence to Suppress Colorectal Tumorigenesis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
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- Distinctive Supramolecular Features of β-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes with Antidepressants Protriptyline and Maprotiline: A Comprehensive Structural Investigation.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Inhibition of SREBP-1 Activation by a Novel Small-Molecule Inhibitor Enhances the Sensitivity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tissue to Radiofrequency Ablation.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death and has a poor prognosis worldwide, thus, more effective drugs are urgently needed. In this article, a small molecule drug library composed of 1,056 approved medicines from the FDA was used to screen for anticancer drugs. The tetracyclic compound maprotiline, a highly selective noradrenergic reuptake blocker, has strong antidepressant efficacy. However, the anticancer effect of maprotiline remains unclear. Here, we investigated the anticancer potential of maprotiline in the HCC cell lines Huh7 and HepG2. We found that maprotiline not only significantly restrained cell proliferation, colony formation and metastasis
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