An Overview of the Potential Antineoplastic Effects of Casticin

Molecules

Irum Naz¹  MuhammadRashid Khan¹  Shanaya Ramchandani²  KwangSeok Ahn³  JongHyun Lee³ 

[1] Department of Biochemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan;Department of Pharmacology—Biomedicine, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia;Department of Science in Korean Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 47, Kyungheedae-gil, Dongdaemoon-gu, Seoul 130–701, Korea;

关键词: cancer;    casticin;    flavonoid;    apoptosis;    pi3k/akt;    nf-κb;    stat3;    foxo3a/foxm1;   

DOI  :  10.3390/molecules25061287

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Cancer persists as one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide, contributing to approximately 9.6 million deaths per annum in recent years. Despite the numerous advancements in cancer treatment, there is still abundant scope to mitigate recurrence, adverse side effects and toxicities caused by existing pharmaceutical drugs. To achieve this, many phytochemicals from plants and natural products have been tested against cancer cell lines in vivo and in vitro. Likewise, casticin, a flavonoid extracted from the Vitex species, has been isolated from the leaves and seeds of V. trifolia and V. agnus-castus. Casticin possesses a wide range of therapeutic properties, including analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiangiogenic, antiasthmatic and antineoplastic activities. Several studies have been conducted on the anticancer effects of casticin against cancers, including breast, bladder, oral, lung, leukemia and hepatocellular carcinomas. The compound inhibits invasion, migration and proliferation and induces apoptosis (casticin-induced, ROS-mediated and mitochondrial-dependent) and cell cycle arrest (G0/G1, G2/M, etc.) through different signaling pathways, namely the PI3K/Akt, NF-κB, STAT3 and FOXO3a/FoxM1 pathways. This review summarizes the chemo-preventive ability of casticin as an antineoplastic agent against several malignancies.

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