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Record W4415616660 · doi:10.21873/anticanres.17842

Magnolol Traverses the Blood-brain Barrier and Enhances Temozolomide-induced Intrinsic Apoptosis of Glioblastoma Cells <i>via</i> a p53 Redox Signaling Mechanism

2025· article· en· W4415616660 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnticancer Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMagnolia and Illicium research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMagnololApoptosisGlioblastomaMechanism (biology)Signal transductionDrug resistanceTransfectionDrug

Abstract

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BACKGROUND/AIM: , enhances TMZ-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cells and explored the underlying mechanisms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The safety of magnolol was evaluated in normal human astrocytes and mouse cerebral endothelial cells (CECs). Its ability to traverse the CEC tight junction barrier was examined, followed by assessments of its effects on TMZ-induced apoptosis in human and mouse glioblastoma cells. Mechanistic studies focused on p53 redox signaling. RESULTS: Magnolol at non-toxic concentrations crossed the CEC barrier and significantly potentiated TMZ-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cells. Cotreatment decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, enhanced caspase-9 activity, and activated downstream caspases-3 and -6. Inhibition of caspase-9 or p53 phosphorylation attenuated magnolol's enhancement of TMZ-induced DNA fragmentation and apoptosis. Magnolol also elevated intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, which further promoted p53 phosphorylation and apoptotic signaling. These synergistic effects were confirmed in both human U87MG and mouse GL261 glioblastoma cells. CONCLUSION: Magnolol traverses the CEC barrier and amplifies TMZ-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cells through an intrinsic ROS-p53-caspase signaling cascade. Given its safety toward normal astrocytes and endothelial cells, magnolol represents a promising adjuvant strategy to improve TMZ-based therapy, potentially mitigating drug resistance and adverse effects in GBM treatment.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.657

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.324 · 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