ReviewArchives of toxicology2024
The phytochemical plumbagin: mechanism behind its "pleiotropic" nature and potential as an anticancer treatment.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Natural flavonoid isoorientin and its anticancer mechanisms: a systematic review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Plumbagin: Its Current Applications in Cancer and Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Current medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
- HMBOX1 plays a critical role in plumbagin-induced growth inhibition of hepatocellular carcinoma cells.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- In Silico Design and Computational Elucidation of Hypothetical Resveratrol-Curcumin Hybrids as Potential Cancer Pathway Modulators.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Synergistic Inhibition of Colon Cancer Cell Proliferation via p53, Bax, and Bcl-2 Modulation by Curcumin and Plumbagin Combination.ACS omega · 2025Article
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Abstract
Chemotherapeutics are most often used to treat cancer, but side effects, drug resistance, and toxicity often compromise their effectiveness. In contrast, phytocompound plumbagin possesses a distinct pleiotropic nature, targeting multiple signaling pathways, such as ROS generation, cell death, cellular proliferation, metastasis, and drug resistance, and is shown to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs. Plumbagin has been shown to act synergistically with various chemotherapeutic drugs and enhance their efficacy in drug-resistant cancers. The pleiotropic nature is believed to be due to plumbagin's unique structure, which contains a naphthoquinone ring and a hydroxyl group responsible for plumbagin's various biological responses. Despite limitations such as restricted bioavailability and delivery, recent developments aim to address these challenges and harness the potential of plumbagin as an anticancer therapeutics. This review delves into the structural aspect of the plumbagin molecule contributing to its pleiotropic nature, explores the diverse mechanism that it targets, and discusses emerging strategies to overcome its limitations.
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