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Drug Combination Details

General Information of the Combination (ID: C76931)
Name Shikonin   NP Info  + Doxorubicin   Drug Info 
Structure +
Disease
Osteosarcoma [ICD-11: 2B51]
Investigative [1]
Lung cancer [ICD-11: 2C25]
Investigative [2]
Mantle cell lymphoma [ICD-11: 2A85]
Investigative [3]
Combinatorial Therapeutic Effect(s) Validated Clinically or Experimentally
    α. Enhancing Drug Efficacy by This Combination
                 Augmenting Drug Sensitivity     Click to Show/Hide
                    Experiment 1 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [3]
                    Molecule(s)
                    Regulation
Down-regulation Phosphorylation AKT1  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Down-regulation Expression microRNA 19a  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Down-regulation Phosphorylation mTOR  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
Down-regulation Expression MYC  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
                    In-vitro Model Raji CVCL_0511 EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma Homo sapiens
Namalwa CVCL_0067 EBV-related Burkitt lymphoma Homo sapiens
                    In-vivo Model A mixture of 1*107 Namalwa cells and PBS was injected subcutaneously in the right oxter of each male non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mice (4 weeks old).
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Shikonin exerts antitumor activity in Burkitt's lymphoma by inhibiting C-MYC and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and acts synergistically with doxorubicin.
                    Experiment 2 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
                    In-vitro Model U2OS CVCL_0042 Osteosarcoma Homo sapiens
MG-63 CVCL_0426 Osteosarcoma Homo sapiens
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Shikonin promotes adriamycin-induced apoptosis by upregulating caspase 3 and caspase 8 in osteosarcoma.
                    Experiment 3 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [2]
                    Molecule(s)
                    Regulation
Down-regulation Expression TAP1  Molecule Info 
Pathway MAP
                    Biological
                    Regulation
Down-regulation ATP generation
Induction Loss of mitochondrial membrane potential
                    In-vitro Model A-549 CVCL_0023 Lung adenocarcinoma Homo sapiens
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Shikonin enhances Adriamycin antitumor effects by inhibiting efflux pumps in A549 cells.
References
Reference 1 Shikonin promotes adriamycin?induced apoptosis by upregulating caspase?3 and caspase?8 in osteosarcoma. Mol Med Rep. 2017 Aug;16(2):1347-1352.
Reference 2 Shikonin enhances Adriamycin antitumor effects by inhibiting efflux pumps in A549 cells. Oncol Lett. 2017 Oct;14(4):4270-4276.
Reference 3 Shikonin exerts antitumor activity in Burkitt's lymphoma by inhibiting C-MYC and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and acts synergistically with doxorubicin. Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 20;8(1):3317.
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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