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Drug Combination Details

General Information of the Combination (ID: C18568)
Name Shikonin   NP Info  + Cisplatin   Drug Info 
Structure +
Disease
Colon cancer [ICD-11: 2B90]
Investigative [1]
Combinatorial Therapeutic Effect(s) Validated Clinically or Experimentally
    α. Enhancing Drug Efficacy by This Combination
                 Achieving Therapeutic Synergy     Click to Show/Hide
                    Experiment 1 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [1]
                    Molecule(s)
                    Regulation
Up-regulation Expression BAX  Molecule Info 
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Down-regulation Expression BCL-2  Molecule Info 
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Up-regulation Activity CASP3  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Up-regulation Activity CASP9  Molecule Info 
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                    Biological
                    Regulation
Induction ROS generation
Induction Loss of mitochondrial membrane potential
                    In-vitro Model HCT 116 CVCL_0291 Colon carcinoma Homo sapiens
HT-29 CVCL_0320 Colon adenocarcinoma Homo sapiens
SW620 CVCL_0547 Colon adenocarcinoma Homo sapiens
NCM460 CVCL_0460 Healthy Homo sapiens
                    In-vivo Model HCT116 cells (5*106 cells in 100uL of PBS) were harvested and injected subcutaneously into the right flank of five-week-old athymic BALB/cA nu/nu female mice.
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Shikonin as a synergistic agent to cisplatin could be a highly efficient way to achieve anticancer synergism by inducing intracellular oxidative stress.
References
Reference 1 Enhancement of cisplatin-induced colon cancer cells apoptosis by shikonin, a natural inducer of ROS in vitro and in vivo. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 Jan 22;469(4):1075-82.
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Cite NPCDR
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Correspondence

X. N. Sun, Y. T. Zhang, Y. Zhou, X. C. Lian, L. L. Yan, T. Pan, T. Jin, H. Xie, Z. M. Liang, W. Q. Qiu, J. X. Wang, Z. R. Li, F. Zhu*, X. B. Sui*. NPCDR: natural product-based drug combination and its disease-specific molecular regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(D1): 1324-1333 (2020). PMID: 34664659

Prof. Feng ZHU  (zhufeng@zju.edu.cn)

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China


Prof. Xinbing SUI  (hzzju@hznu.edu.cn)

School of Pharmacy and Department of Medical Oncology, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China