1. Focus on Notoginsenoside R1 in Metabolism and Prevention Against Human Diseases.
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Liu H, Yang J, Yang W, Hu S, Wu Y, Zhao B, Hu H, and Du S
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- Animals, Drug Development, Ginsenosides isolation & purification, Humans, Medicine, Chinese Traditional methods, Plant Roots, Drugs, Chinese Herbal pharmacology, Ginsenosides pharmacology, Panax notoginseng chemistry
- Abstract
Notoginsenoside (NG)-R1 is one of the main bioactive compounds from Panax notoginseng (PN) root, which is well known in the prescription for mediating the micro-circulatory hemostasis in human. In this article, we mainly discuss NG-R1 in metabolism and the biological activities, including cardiovascular protection, neuro-protection, anti-diabetes, liver protection, gastrointestinal protection, lung protection, bone metabolism regulation, renal protection, and anti-cancer. The metabolites produced by deglycosylation of NG-R1 exhibit higher permeability and bioavailability. It has been extensively verified that NG-R1 may ameliorate ischemia-reperfusion (IR)-induced injury in cardiovascular and neuronal systems mainly by upregulating the activity of estrogen receptor α-dependent phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT) and nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (NRF2) pathways and downregulating nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. However, no specific targets for NG-R1 have been identified. Expectedly, NG-R1 has been used as a main bioactive compound in many Traditional Chinese Medicines clinically, such as Xuesaitong, Naodesheng, XueShuanTong, ShenMai, and QSYQ. These suggest that NG-R1 exhibits a significant potency in drug development., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interests., (© 2020 Liu et al.)
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- 2020
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