Anti-angiogenic effect of chebulagic acid involves inhibition of the VEGFR2- and GSK-3β-dependent signaling pathways
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Abstract
Inhibition of angiogenesis is a useful strategy to prevent cancer growth by targeting new vessels that grow to nourish actively proliferating tumor cells. Endothelial cells can use a number of different pathways to cause angiogenesis, and each step in these pathways can be targeted. The use of multi-targeted drugs is gaining much importance in this scenario. Our previous results have shown that chebulagic acid (a benzopyran tannin present in the fruits of Terminalia chebula) has anti-angiogenic properties. Thus, this study was designed to examine the molecular mechanism for the anti-angiogenic effects of chebulagic acid. Results from our investigations using molecular docking studies and human umbilical vein endothelial cells in culture suggested that chebulagic acid inhibits both GSK-3β-dependent β-catenin phosphorylation (an important mediator of VE-cadherin-β-catenin signaling) and VEGFR2 phosphorylation, which is an important step in VEGF signaling. Chebulagic acid inhibits angiogenesis by blocking both the VEGF-VEGFR2 complex and cell-cell contact dependent downstream signaling pathways.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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