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ReviewJournal of pharmaceutical analysis2025

Targeting AMPK related signaling pathways: A feasible approach for natural herbal medicines to intervene non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Yongqing Cai, Lu Fang, Fei Chen, Peiling Zhong, Xiangru Zheng, Haiyan Xing, Rongrong Fan, Lie Yuan, Wei Peng, Xiaoli Li

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Review in Journal of pharmaceutical analysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Yongqing CaiDepartment of Pharmacy, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China.
Lu FangDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Fei ChenDepartment of Pharmacy, Dazhou Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Hospital, Dazhou, Sichuan, 635000, China.
Peiling ZhongDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Xiangru ZhengDepartment of Pharmacy, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401120, China.
Haiyan XingDepartment of Pharmacy, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China.
Rongrong FanDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, 14152, Sweden.
Lie YuanDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Wei PengSchool of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 610075, China.
Xiaoli LiDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a metabolic disease characterized by abnormal deposition of lipid in hepatocytes. If not intervened in time, NAFLD may develop into liver fibrosis or liver cancer, and ultimately threatening life. NAFLD has complicated etiology and pathogenesis, and there are no effective therapeutic means and specific drugs. Currently, insulin sensitizers, lipid-lowering agents and hepatoprotective agents are often used for clinical intervention, but these drugs have obvious side effects, and their effectiveness and safety need to be further confirmed. Adenosine monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK) plays a central role in maintaining energy homeostasis. Activated AMPK can enhance lipid degradation, alleviate insulin resistance (IR), suppress oxidative stress and inflammatory response, and regulate autophagy, thereby alleviating NAFLD. Natural herbal medicines have received extensive attention recently because of their regulatory effects on AMPK and low side effects. In this article, we reviewed the biologically active natural herbal medicines (such as natural herbal medicine formulas, extracts, polysaccharides, and monomers) that reported in recent years to treat NAFLD via regulating AMPK, which can serve as a foundation for subsequent development of candidate drugs for NAFLD.

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AMPK signalingAutophagyLipid metabolismNAFLDNatural herbal medicinesOxidative stress

Identifiers

PMID40034684
PMCPMC11873010

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