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Wang Z, Cai Q, Liu L, Zhu Z. Psyllium husk powder enhances the management of type 2 diabetes by modulating gut microbiota and their metabolic products. Food Res Int 2025; 211:116393. [PMID: 40356108 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2025.116393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2024] [Revised: 03/18/2025] [Accepted: 04/15/2025] [Indexed: 05/15/2025]
Abstract
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. Plantain shell powder (PHP) serves as a high-quality source of dietary fiber, widely utilized in food additives and pharmaceutical applications. In this study, we investigated the hypoglycemic activity and underlying mechanisms of PHP by examining its effects on intestinal microbiota and metabolism in T2DM mice induced by a high-fat diet and streptozotocin (STZ). Our findings indicate that PHP significantly enhances blood glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity, reduces organ damage, and regulates blood lipid levels as well as short-chain fatty acid concentrations; notably, higher doses of PHP yielded optimal results. In addition, PHP can regulate the ratio of Bacteroidota to Firmicutes and increase the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria such as Bacteroidales, Muribaculaceae, and Parabacteroides. Furthermore, PHP enhances the enrichment of key metabolic pathways, including α-linolenic acid metabolism, monobactam biosynthesis, and PPAR signaling pathways, thereby promoting the production of beneficial metabolites. Complex interactions exist among these beneficial bacteria and metabolic pathways that are associated with improved metabolic function, regulation of glucose homeostasis, enhancement of insulin sensitivity, and reduction of inflammation. Our study demonstrates that PHP can ameliorate T2DM by reversing alterations in gut microbiota and metabolic profiles caused by T2DM while promoting the regulation of beneficial microbial populations.
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- Zhengyu Wang
- School of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, China.
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, China; Wuhan Longfengyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430040, China.
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Lin Z, Li Y, Wu Z, Liu Q, Li X, Luo W. Eriodictyol-cisplatin coated nanomedicine synergistically promote osteosarcoma cells ferroptosis and chemosensitivity. J Nanobiotechnology 2025; 23:109. [PMID: 39953537 PMCID: PMC11829430 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-025-03206-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2025] [Indexed: 02/17/2025] Open
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The ever-increasing chemoresistance of osteosarcoma (OS) has been observed in the recent decades, impeding OS therapeutic improvement and posing an urgency to exploit to the alternative and/or supplementary therapies for the optimization of OS chemotherapeutic regimen. Ferroptosis, a regulated cell death, has been identified as a natural anticancer mechanism as well as a synergist for chemotherapeutics in various cancers. Herein, we affirmed the tumor-suppressing properties of eriodictyol and illustrated that its antitumor effects might ascribe to the ferroptosis-inducing activity, in which eriodictyol could bind with BACH1 to repress the transcription and translation of GPX4 and eventually result in the GPX4-related ferroptosis. Further investigation found that eriodictyol could exhibit a synergistic effect with cisplatin, facilitating the antitumor effects of cisplatin. Lastly, through utilizing hollow mesoporous prussian blue nanocubes loaded with eriodictyol and cisplatin, we formed the ferroptosis-synergistic nanocomplexes to facilitate OS cells ferroptosis and cisplatin sensitivity. Through direct catalytic oxidation of unsaturated lipids, exogenous iron delivery, GSH exhaustion, and GPX4 transcriptional inhibition, this ferroptosis-synergistic nanocomplex could excellently enhance OS cells ferroptosis in both vitro and vivo, with no obvious organ injury observed. Therefore, our ferroptosis-synergistic nanocomplex may represent a promising alternative therapeutic strategy for OS patients.
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- Zili Lin
- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
- National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
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Liu Y, Jiang B, Li Y, Zhang X, Wang L, Yao Y, Zhu B, Shi H, Chai X, Hu X, Zhang B, Li H. Effect of traditional Chinese medicine in osteosarcoma: Cross-interference of signaling pathways and potential therapeutic targets. Medicine (Baltimore) 2024; 103:e36467. [PMID: 38241548 PMCID: PMC10798715 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000036467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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Osteosarcoma (OS) has a high recurrence rate, disability rate, mortality and metastasis, it brings great economic burden and psychological pressure to patients, and then seriously affects the quality of life of patients. At present, the treatment methods of OS mainly include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgical therapy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with limb salvage surgery. These treatment methods can relieve the clinical symptoms of patients to a certain extent, and also effectively reduce the disability rate, mortality and recurrence rate of OS patients. However, because metastasis of tumor cells leads to new complications, and OS cells become resistant with prolonged drug intervention, which reduces the sensitivity of OS cells to drugs, these treatments still have some limitations. More and more studies have shown that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has the characteristics of "multiple targets and multiple pathways," and can play an important role in the development of OS through several key signaling pathways, including PI3K/AKT, Wnt/β-catenin, tyrosine kinase/transcription factor 3 (JAK/STAT3), Notch, transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smad, nuclear transcription factor-κB (NF-κB), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), Hippo/YAP, OPG/RANK/RANKL, Hedgehog and so on. In this paper, the signaling pathways of cross-interference between active ingredients of TCM and OS were reviewed, and the development status of novel OS treatment was analyzed. The active ingredients in TCM can provide therapeutic benefits to patients by targeting the activity of signaling pathways. In addition, potential strategies for targeted therapy of OS by using ferroptosis were discussed. We hope to provide a unique insight for the in-depth research and clinical application of TCM in the fields of OS growth, metastasis and chemotherapy resistance by understanding the signaling crosstalk between active ingredients in TCM and OS.
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- Yuezhen Liu
- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China
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Ahamed A, Hasan M, Samanta A, Alam SSM, Jamil Z, Ali S, Hoque M. Prospective pharmacological potential of cryptotanshinone in cancer therapy. PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH - MODERN CHINESE MEDICINE 2023; 9:100308. [DOI: 10.1016/j.prmcm.2023.100308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2025]
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Gao Y, Luo L, Qu Y, Zhou Q. MFNG is an independent prognostic marker for osteosarcoma. Eur J Med Res 2023; 28:256. [PMID: 37496053 PMCID: PMC10369729 DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01139-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Osteosarcoma (OS) has been the most common malignancy of the bone in children and adolescents, and the unsatisfactory prognosis of OS sufferers has long been a hard nut. Here, we delved into the markers with a prognostic value for predicting the prognosis of OS patients. METHODS The messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing data and clinical data of OS were retrieved from a Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset (GSE39058). Next, prognosis-related genes (PRGs) were filtered with the aid of Kaplan-Meier (K-M) curves and Cox regression analysis (CRA). Later, Gene Ontology (GO) biological process analysis was used in verifying the function of different genes. CCK-8 and cell apoptosis assay were performed to evaluate the function of MFNG in U2OS cells. RESULTS Among the obtained genes, Manic Fringe (MFNG) had the closest relevance to prognosis and clinical traits, thus becoming the research object herein. In light of the expression level of MFNG, patients fell into high- and low-MFNG groups. Patients with elevated MFNG expression had a worse prognosis, according to the survival analysis. It was unveiled by the univariate and multivariate analyses that MFNG expression was an independent adverse prognostic factor for disease-free survival in OS patients (p = 0.006). Meanwhile, MFNG expression was linked to gender and tumor recurrence, and it was higher in patients with OS recurrence. Moreover, overexpression of MFNG promoted the cell proliferation and inhibited the cell apoptosis of U2OS cells. CONCLUSIONS The expression level of MFNG negatively correlated with OS progression, and as an independent adverse prognostic factor for disease-free survival in OS patients. Moreover, MFNG regulated the cell proliferation and apoptosis of OS cells.
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- Yi Gao
- Department of Orthopaedics, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 25 Heping Bei Lu, Tianning District, Changzhou, 213000, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 25 Heping Bei Lu, Tianning District, Changzhou, 213000, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 25 Heping Bei Lu, Tianning District, Changzhou, 213000, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 25 Heping Bei Lu, Tianning District, Changzhou, 213000, Jiangsu, China.
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Attenuation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Enhances Carvacrol-Induced Apoptosis in Osteosarcoma Cell Lines. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:life13030744. [PMID: 36983900 PMCID: PMC10054369 DOI: 10.3390/life13030744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Carvacrol is a monoterpenoid phenol that has excellent antimicrobial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory activities. It can also improve wound healing. However, few studies have explored its antitumor effect on osteosarcoma. In this report, we tried to determine the potential efficacy of carvacrol against osteosarcoma cell lines. Our data revealed that carvacrol exposure inhibited the proliferation of osteosarcoma HOS and U-2 OS cells. In addition, carvacrol exposure enhanced the levels of cleaved PARP and caspase 3 and increased annexin V-positive cells, indicating that carvacrol exposure triggers apoptosis in osteosarcoma cell lines. Furthermore, the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were enhanced after carvacrol exposure and cotreatment with NAC, the ROS scavenger, decreased the levels of cleaved PARP and caspase 3, suggesting the involvement of ROS in carvacrol-induced apoptosis. Importantly, we found that carvacrol exposure triggered several protein expressions related to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, including GRP78/Bip, IRE1a, PERK, and CHOP, in HOS and U-2 OS cells, indicating that carvacrol exposure could result in ER stress in these cell lines. Cotreatment with the ER stress inhibitor 4-PBA increased the levels of cleaved PARP and caspase 3 and further suppressed cellular proliferation in carvacrol-exposed osteosarcoma cell lines. Overall, the results indicate that induced ER stress can protect cells from apoptosis, but increased ROS contributes to apoptosis in carvacrol-treated cells. In this report, we first demonstrate the role of ER stress in carvacrol-induced apoptosis and suggest that ER stress could be targeted to enhance the antitumor activity of carvacrol in osteosarcoma cell lines.
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Guo X, Ma R, Wang M, Wui-Man Lau B, Chen X, Li Y. Novel perspectives on the therapeutic role of cryptotanshinone in the management of stem cell behaviors for high-incidence diseases. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:971444. [PMID: 36046823 PMCID: PMC9420941 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.971444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Cryptotanshinone (CTS), a diterpenoid quinone, is found mostly in Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (S. miltiorrhiza) and plays a crucial role in many cellular processes, such as cell proliferation/self-renewal, differentiation and apoptosis. In particular, CTS’s profound physiological impact on various stem cell populations and their maintenance and fate determination could improve the efficiency and accuracy of stem cell therapy for high-incidence disease. However, as much promise CTS holds, these CTS-mediated processes are complex and multifactorial and many of the underlying mechanisms as well as their clinical significance for high-incidence diseases are not yet fully understood. This review aims to shed light on the impact and mechanisms of CTS on the actions of diverse stem cells and the involvement of CTS in the many processes of stem cell behavior and provide new insights for the application of CTS and stem cell therapy in treating high-incidence diseases.
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- Xiaomeng Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaopeng Chen, ; Yue Li,
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- State Key Laboratory of Component-Based Chinese Medicine, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaopeng Chen, ; Yue Li,
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