A universal gene expression signature-based strategy for the high-throughput discovery of anti-inflammatory drugs.

Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a valuable resource for drug discovery and has demonstrated excellent efficacy in treating inflammatory diseases. This study aimed to develop a universal gene signature-based strategy for high-throughput discovery of anti-inflammatory drugs, especially Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Methods: The disease gene signature of liposaccharide-stimulated THP-1 cells and drug gene signatures of 655 drug candidates were established via sequencing.

Pulsatilla chinensis functions as a novel antihyperlipidemic agent by upregulating LDLR in an ERK-dependent manner.

Background: Pulsatilla chinensis (PC) is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) known for its beneficial activities. It has been historically used to treat dysentery, vaginal trichomoniasis, bacterial infections, and malignant tumors. The therapeutic potential of PC in the management of hypercholesterolemia remains largely unexplored.

Mechanism Study of Xiaoyao San against Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis-Related Liver Fibrosis Based on a Combined Strategy of Transcriptome Analysis and Network Pharmacology.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of liver disease worldwide. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an advanced form of NAFLD. The livers of patients with NASH are more likely to develop fibrosis.

Wenshenyang recipe treats infertility through hormonal regulation and inflammatory responses revealed by transcriptome analysis and network pharmacology.

The Wenshenyang recipe (WSYR) has the effect of treating infertility, but the mechanisms underlying this activity have not been fully elucidated. In this study, network pharmacology and RNA sequencing were combined, with database-based "dry" experiments and transcriptome analysis-based "wet" experiments used conjointly to analyse the mechanism of WSYR in the treatment of infertility. In the dry analysis, 43 active compounds in WSYR and 44 therapeutic targets were obtained through a database search, 15 infertility pathways were significantly enriched, and key targets, such as ESR1, TP53, AKT1, IL-6, and IL-10 were identified.

and its component rutin exhibit glucose-lowering activities by inhibiting hepatic glucose production AKT activation.

The potential medicinal value of Ma bamboo (), one of the most popular and economically important bamboo species in China, has been underestimated. In the present study, we found that leaf extract (DLE) reduced fasting blood glucose levels, body weight, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with low liver toxicity in / mice. In addition, gene expression profiling was performed and pathway enrichment analysis showed that DLE affected metabolic pathways.

Biological Response Profiling Reveals the Functional Differences of Main Alkaloids in Rhizoma Coptidis.

Rhizoma Coptidis (RC) is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine. Although modern research has found that some alkaloids from RC are the pharmacologically active constituents, the differences in their biological effects are not completely clear. This study analyzed the differences in the typical alkaloids in RC at a systematic level and provided comprehensive information on the pharmaceutical mechanisms of the different alkaloids.

White tea and its active polyphenols lower cholesterol through reduction of very-low-density lipoprotein production and induction of LDLR expression.

Emerging in vivo and vitro data suggest that white tea extract (WTE) is capable of favourably modulating metabolic syndrome, especially by ameliorating abnormal lipid metabolism. Microarray-based gene expression profiling was performed in HepG2 cells to analyze the effects of WTE from a systematic perspective. Gene Ontology and pathway analysis revealed that WTE significantly affected pathways related to lipid metabolism.

Identification of Carpesium cernuum extract as a tumor migration inhibitor based on its biological response profiling in breast cancer cells.

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most lethal cancers in women when it reaches the metastatic stage. The plant Carpesium cernuum has been used as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and detoxifying agent in Chinese folk medicine. However, the inhibitory activity and molecular mechanisms of Carpesium cernuum in breast cancer cells have not been investigated.

Caffeine-free hawk tea lowers cholesterol by reducing free cholesterol uptake and the production of very-low-density lipoprotein.

Medicinal plants show important therapeutic value in chronic disease treatment. However, due to their diverse ingredients and complex biological effects, the molecular mechanisms of medicinal plants are yet to be explored. By means of several high-throughput platforms, here we show hawk tea extract (HTE) inhibits Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1)-mediated free cholesterol uptake, thereby inducing the transcription of low-density lipoprotein receptor () downstream of the sterol response element binding protein 2 (SREBP2) pathway.