Predicting and Quantifying Antagonistic Effects of Natural Compounds Given with Chemotherapeutic Agents: Applications for High-Throughput Screening

Cancers

Stefano Tiziani¹  G.Lavender Hackman¹  Alessia Lodi¹  Meghan Collins¹  Xiyuan Lu¹  John DiGiovanni² 

[1] Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA;Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78723, USA;

关键词: natural products;    cancer;    chemotherapy;    antagonism;    synergy;    drug screening;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cancers12123714

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Natural products have been used for centuries to treat various human ailments. In recent decades, multi-drug combinations that utilize natural products to synergistically enhance the therapeutic effects of cancer drugs have been identified and have shown success in improving treatment outcomes. While drug synergy research is a burgeoning field, there are disagreements on the definitions and mathematical parameters that prevent the standardization and proper usage of the terms synergy, antagonism, and additivity. This contributes to the relatively small amount of data on the antagonistic effects of natural products on cancer drugs that can diminish their therapeutic efficacy and prevent cancer regression. The ability of natural products to potentially degrade or reverse the molecular activity of cancer therapeutics represents an important but highly under-emphasized area of research that is often overlooked in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. This review aims to evaluate the body of work surrounding the antagonistic interactions between natural products and cancer therapeutics and highlight applications for high-throughput screening (HTS) and deep learning techniques for the identification of natural products that antagonize cancer drug efficacy.

【 授权许可】

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