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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Dual-Target Insight into Drug Discovery from Natural Products as Modulators of GLP-1 and the TXNIP-Thioredoxin Antioxidant System in Metabolic Syndrome.

Peter Chinedu Agu, Appolonia Fulgence Yudas, Jun Lu

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter Chinedu AguKey Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4739-2040
Appolonia Fulgence YudasKey Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.ORCID 0009-0009-0627-9632
Jun LuKey Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1699-8835

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing CSTB2023NSCQ-MSX0943
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), a cluster of interconnected metabolic abnormalities, poses a growing global health burden. A well-established therapeutic target for the diseases is the incretin hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1); however, synthetic agonists have drawbacks such as expense, injectable administration, and side effects. Concurrently, one of the main pathogenic characteristics of MetS is oxidative stress, in which the Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein (TXNIP)/thioredoxin system is a critical player. The strong evidence that natural compounds derived from plant, marine, and microbiological sources can simultaneously target the TXNIP-thioredoxin antioxidant axis and GLP-1 signaling is examined in this study. These substances can limit TXNIP expression and increase thioredoxin activity while also stimulating GLP-1 secretion, inhibiting dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4), or acting as GLP-1 receptor agonists. A cycle of reinforcement is created by these two actions: Pancreatic β-cell activity and incretin responsiveness are improved by GLP-1-mediated TXNIP downregulation, which also strengthens antioxidant defense. However, translational development must overcome major pharmacological obstacles, especially those related to bioavailability, metabolic stability, and standardization, despite encouraging preclinical effectiveness. To speed up this translational process, integrative computational techniques (such as molecular docking, network pharmacology, and artificial intelligence) are strong tools for lead optimization and creation of hypothesis. Thus, natural products can provide a special chance to discover multi-target treatments that comprehensively address the oxidative and hormonal causes of MetS.

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antioxidantcomputational strategiesdrug discoveryGLP-1metabolic syndromemulti-target therapeuticsnatural productsoxidative stressthioredoxinTXNIP

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PMID41300521
PMCPMC12649192

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