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Record W4413258117 · doi:10.1093/jpp/rgaf065

Icariside II: natural occurrence, biotransformation, pharmacological activity, synthetic modification, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability

2025· article· en· W4413258117 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicMedicinal Plant Pharmacodynamics Research
Canadian institutionsMedicine Hat College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacologyPharmacokineticsGlucuronidationPI3K/AKT/mTOR pathwayBioavailabilityIcariinChemistryProtein kinase BBiotransformationBaicaleinSignal transductionEnzymeBiologyBiochemistryMedicineMicrosome

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: Icariside II (ICS-II), a flavone containing 3-rhamnopyranosyl and 8-prenyl groups, is one of the main natural compounds found in Epimedum species (the family Berberidaceae). The current study aims to provide a systematic review of its natural occurrence, pharmacological value, synthetic modification, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability. KEY FINDINGS: Sources such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed, and journal websites were used to gather references about ICS-II. 'Icariside II' is the most meaningful keyword to seek references, and references have been updated till now. SUMMARY: ICS-II is a characteristic metabolite of various Epimedum plants, and it can be obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis of other flavonoids. It is a promising compound with multiple in vitro and in vivo pharmacological potentials. The studied flavone showed cancer-related biological activity via cell cycle arrest, proliferation inhibition, autophagy, and apoptosis and inhibited cytokines in anti-inflammatory actions. Significantly, the health benefits were accompanied by its role in antidiabetics, sexual reproduction, and protection against harmful effects on the heart, brain, bones, lungs, kidneys, livers, and eyes. Molecular mechanisms of action were deduced from various signaling pathways, such as Akt/NOS/NF-κB, JAK/STAT3/MAPK, and PI3K/Akt/mTOR. Pharmacokinetic evidence involved sugar and methyl removals, hydroxylation, glucuronidation, and glycosylation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.363
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.480
Teacher spread0.378 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it