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ArticleHeliyon2024

Insights into diosgenin against inflammatory bowel disease as functional food based on network pharmacology and molecular docking.

Min Cai, Yangchen Mao, Wenjing Gao, Zhenzhen Wang, Jianwei Mao, Ruyi Sha

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Article in Heliyon, 2024. 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 authors.

Min CaiSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
Yangchen MaoSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
Wenjing GaoSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
Zhenzhen WangSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
Jianwei MaoSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
Ruyi ShaSchool of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a growing global health problem. IBD is commonly prevalent in Europe and America and the incidence rate in Asia is on the rise due to altered dietary structure. Diosgenin is a natural steroidal saponin derived from Dioscorea plants. Diosgenin is the main active ingredient of some Chinese medicines which are mainly used to treat coronary heart disease, angina and hyperlipidemia. Recently, growing evidence has exhibited a crucial role of diosgenin and dioscin in alleviating IBD in multiple ways. However, the precise mechanism of diosgenin against IBD needs further exploration. In this study, network pharmacological and systematic bioinformatic analyses were performed to investigate the diosgenin's targets against IBD. 71 targets such as SRC, TNF and STAT3 were identified as overlapped genes between diosgenin and IBD. Gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis exhibited their involvement in the tyrosine kinase signaling pathway and its membrane receptors. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance and its downstream Ras-MAPK pathway and PI3K-Akt pathway might become the mechanism of diosgenin against IBD. In addition, molecular docking analysis showed that diosgenin has the massive potential of direct binding to tyrosine kinase and its receptors such as SRC, EGFR, FGFR1 and VEGFR. The results above collectively provided evidence that diosgenin is a promising nutraceutical food against IBD.

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BioinformaticsDiosgeninEGFRInflammatory bowel diseaseMechanisms

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