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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2024

Potential pharmacological mechanisms of tanshinone IIA in the treatment of human neuroblastoma based on network pharmacological and molecular docking Technology.

Ning Tang, Yan Wang, Jiarui Miao, Yang Zhao, Yue Cao, Wentao Sun, Jingke Zhang, Hua Sui, Bing Li

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ning TangDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Yan WangDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Jiarui MiaoDepartment of Acupuncture and Massage, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Yang ZhaoDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Yue CaoDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Wentao SunDepartment of Acupuncture and Massage, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Jingke ZhangDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Hua SuiDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Bing LiDepartment of Integrative Medicine, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xinglin College, Shenyang, China.
Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNDalian Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tanshinone IIA (Tan-IIA) is the main bioactive component of Chinese herbal medicine salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen). Sodium sulfonate of Tan-IIA is widely used in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Tan-IIA also has inhibitory effects on tumor cells such as gastric cancer, but its therapeutic effect and mechanism on human neuroblastoma have not been evaluated, so its pharmacological mechanism is systematically evaluated by the combined method of network pharmacology and molecular docking. PharmMapper and SwissTargetPrediction predicted 331 potential Tan-IIA-related targets, and 1,152 potential neuroblastoma-related targets were obtained from GeneCards, DisGeNET, DrugBank, OMIM and Therapeutic Target databases (TTD), 107 common targets for Tan-IIA and neuroblastoma. Through gene ontology (GO) functional annotation, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomesa (KEGG) pathway enrichment, protein-protein interaction (PPI) network and cytoHubba plug-in, 10 related signal pathways (Pathways in cancer, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, Prostate cancer, etc.) and 10 hub genes were identified. The results of molecular docking showed that Tan-IIA could interact with 10 targets: GRB2, SRC, EGFR, PTPN1, ESR1, IGF1, MAPK1, PIK3R1, AKT1 and IGF1R. This study analyzed the related pathways and targets of Tan-IIA in the treatment of human neuroblastoma, as well as the potential anticancer and anti-tumor targets and related signaling pathways of Tan-IIA, which provides a reference for us to find and explore effective drugs for the treatment of human neuroblastoma.

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gene ontologymolecular dockingnetwork pharmacologyneuroblastomatanshinone IIA

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