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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Anticancer Activity and Molecular Mechanisms of an Ursodeoxycholic Acid Methyl Ester-Dihydroartemisinin Hybrid via a Triazole Linkage in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells.

Ya-Fen Hsu, Fan-Lu Kung, Tzu-En Huang, Yi-Ning Deng, Jih-Hwa Guh, Paolo Marchetti, Elena Marchesi, Daniela Perrone, Maria Luisa Navacchia, Lih-Ching Hsu

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Therapeutic Potential of Dihydroartemisinin in Cancer Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Ya-Fen HsuSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-2990-7637
Fan-Lu KungSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.
Tzu-En HuangSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.
Yi-Ning DengSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.
Jih-Hwa GuhSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-6738-6054
Paolo MarchettiDepartment of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Elena MarchesiDepartment of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5402-4732
Daniela PerroneDepartment of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5189-011X
Maria Luisa NavacchiaInstitute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 44129 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7175-1504
Lih-Ching HsuSchool of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10050, Taiwan.

Funding

the Ministry of Sciences and Technology in Taiwan MOST 109-2320-B-002-048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third most common cause of cancer-related death according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), an antimalarial drug, has been reported to exhibit anticancer activity but with a short half-life. We synthesized a series of bile acid-dihydroartemisinin hybrids to improve its stability and anticancer activity and demonstrated that an ursodeoxycholic-DHA (UDC-DHA) hybrid was 10-fold more potent than DHA against HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma cells. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the anticancer activity and investigate the molecular mechanisms of UDCMe-Z-DHA, a hybrid of ursodeoxycholic acid methyl ester and DHA via a triazole linkage. We found that UDCMe-Z-DHA was even more potent than UDC-DHA in HepG2 cells with IC

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsApoptosisArtemetherArtemisininsCell Line, TumorHumansTandem Mass SpectrometryUrsodeoxycholic AcidArtemetherArtemisininsartenimolUrsodeoxycholic Acidanticancerapoptosisautophagybile acid–dihydroartemisinin hybridshepatocellular carcinomaoxidative stress

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PMID36903603
PMCPMC10005781

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