ReferenceID 4579

Asiatic Acid Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Activates the Grp78/IRE1α/JNK and Calpain Pathways to Inhibit Tongue Cancer Growth

Front Pharmacol

Asiatic acid (AA) has been shown to induce apoptotic death in a range of cancers, but the mechanisms whereby it can inhibit tongue cancer growth have yet to be clarified. Herein, we explored the effects of AA on tongue c

Back to Browse

Relationship Network

Interactive first-hop connections across herbs, ingredients, formulas, targets, diseases, symptoms, syndromes, evidence, and monographs.

Click a node to open it in a new tab
Ingredient: 1Reference: 1Links: 1
Arranging relationship network...

Record Fields

Scalar fields from the final reference record.

Reference Id
4579
Evidence Id
21169
Core Evidence Id
21169
Source Reference Id
2431
Herb2 Reference Id
HBREF003228
Subject Paper Key
HBIN017057_34122116
Pubmed Id
34122116
Doi
10.3389/fphar.2021.690612
Paper Title
Asiatic Acid Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Activates the Grp78/IRE1α/JNK and Calpain Pathways to Inhibit Tongue Cancer Growth
Paper Abstract
Asiatic acid (AA) has been shown to induce apoptotic death in a range of cancers, but the mechanisms whereby it can inhibit tongue cancer growth have yet to be clarified. Herein, we explored the effects of AA on tongue cancer cells and found that it induced their apoptotic death in vitro and in vivo, while additionally impairing xenograft tumor growth in vivo. From a mechanistic perspective, AA treatment was associated with increases in levels of calcium and the calcium- dependent protease calpain, and it further induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and consequent Grp78-related IRE1alpha and JNK phosphorylation, ultimately driving caspase-3 activation and apoptotic death. Together, these results highlight AA as a promising tool for the therapeutic treatment of tongue cancer in clinical practice.
Journal
Front Pharmacol
Publish Year
2021
Experiment Subject
Experiment Type
Cell Experiment
Phenotype Related
Cancers; Tumor; Tongue Cancer
Paper Title Cn
Paper Title En
Asiatic Acid Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Activates the Grp78/IRE1α/JNK and Calpain Pathways to Inhibit Tongue Cancer Growth
Bilingual Status
semi_complete