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Drug Combination Details

General Information of the Combination (ID: C28471)
Name Thymoquinone   NP Info  + Doxorubicin   Drug Info 
Structure +
Disease
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia [ICD-11: 2B33]
Investigative [1]
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma [ICD-11: 2A90]
Investigative [2]
Hepatocellular carcinoma [ICD-11: 2C12]
Investigative [3]
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 CASP3  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Up-regulation Expression CASP8  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Up-regulation Expression CASP9  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
                    Biological
                    Regulation
Up-regulation ROS generation
                    In-vitro Model HL-60 CVCL_0002 Adult acute myeloid leukemia Homo sapiens
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Thymoquinone improved the anti-cancer properties of doxorubicin in a cell line-specific manner.
                    Experiment 2 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [3]
                    Molecule(s)
                    Regulation
Up-regulation Expression CASP3  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Up-regulation Expression COL11A2  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
                    In-vitro Model Hep-G2 CVCL_0027 Hepatocellular carcinoma Homo sapiens
SMMC-7721 CVCL_0534 Hepatocellular carcinoma Homo sapiens
Hep 3B2.1-7 CVCL_0326 Childhood hepatocellular carcinoma Homo sapiens
L-02 CVCL_6926 Ovarian cancer Homo sapiens
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
TQ synergistically improves the anti-cancer activity of DOX, and loss of p53 sensitizes HCC cells to TQ-induced apoptosis.
                    Experiment 3 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [2]
                    Molecule(s)
                    Regulation
Down-regulation Expression MKI67  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Up-regulation Expression p105  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
                    In-vitro Model HuT 102 CVCL_3526 Mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome Homo sapiens
Jurkat CVCL_0065 T acute lymphoblastic leukemia Homo sapiens
                    In-vivo Model 7.5 * 106 HuT-102 tumor cells in 100 ul Media:Matrigel (1:1 ratio) were inoculated subcutaneously in the right flank of NOD/SCID mice (6-8 weeks, ~20 g).
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Thymoquinone enhances the anticancer activity of doxorubicin against adult T-cell leukemia in vitro and in vivo through ROS-dependent mechanisms.
References
Reference 1 Combinatorial effects of thymoquinone on the anti-cancer activity of doxorubicin. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2011 Apr;67(4):867-74.
Reference 2 Thymoquinone enhances the anticancer activity of doxorubicin against adult T-cell leukemia in vitro and in vivo through ROS-dependent mechanisms. Life Sci. 2019 Sep 1;232:116628.
Reference 3 Thymoquinone Selectively Induces Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Apoptosis in Synergism With Clinical Therapeutics and Dependence of p53 Status. Front Pharmacol. 2020 Sep 15;11:555283.
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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