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- Title
Broad-Spectrum Preclinical Antitumor Activity of Chrysin: Current Trends and Future Perspectives.
- Authors
Moghadam, Ebrahim Rahmani; Ang, Hui Li; Asnaf, Sholeh Etehad; Zabolian, Amirhossein; Saleki, Hossein; Yavari, Mohammad; Esmaeili, Hossein; Zarrabi, Ali; Ashrafizadeh, Milad; Kumar, Alan Prem
- Abstract
Pharmacological profile of phytochemicals has attracted much attention to their use in disease therapy. Since cancer is a major problem for public health with high mortality and morbidity worldwide, experiments have focused on revealing the anti-tumor activity of natural products. Flavonoids comprise a large family of natural products with different categories. Chrysin is a hydroxylated flavonoid belonging to the flavone category. Chrysin has demonstrated great potential in treating different disorders, due to possessing biological and therapeutic activities, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, neuroprotective, etc. Over recent years, the anti-tumor activity of chrysin has been investigated, and in the present review, we provide a mechanistic discussion of the inhibitory effect of chrysin on proliferation and invasion of different cancer cells. Molecular pathways, such as Notch1, microRNAs, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB), PI3K/Akt, MAPK, etc., as targets of chrysin are discussed. The efficiency of chrysin in promoting anti-tumor activity of chemotherapeutic agents and suppressing drug resistance is described. Moreover, poor bioavailability, as one of the drawbacks of chrysin, is improved using various nanocarriers, such as micelles, polymeric nanoparticles, etc. This updated review will provide a direction for further studies in evaluating the anti-tumor activity of chrysin.
- Subjects
NATURAL products; MITOGEN-activated protein kinases; MICRORNA; NANOPARTICLES; DRUG resistance
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 10, p1374
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom10101374