Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jose Angel Alonso-Pineiro, Almudena Gonzalez-Rovira, Ismael Sanchez-Gomar, Juan Antonio Moreno, Ma Carmen Duran-Ruiz
Summary: Atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular diseases and high mortality rates, progresses with the formation of atherosclerotic plaques due to oxidative stress. Strategies aimed at reducing oxidative damage, including the use of antioxidant molecules such as Nrf2 and HO-1, have been studied to inhibit the progression of atherosclerosis.
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Yen-Chang Chen, Jia-Hong Chen, Cheng-Fang Tsai, Chen-Teng Wu, Miao-Hsiang Wu, Pei-Chun Chang, Wei-Lan Yeh
Summary: The study found that nicardipine can inhibit the migration and colony formation of breast cancer cells, and increase the expression of Nrf2 and HO-1. The reduction of matrix metalloproteinase-9 by nicardipine is regulated by Nrf2/HO-1 axis and its catalytic end products.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Somayyeh Ghareghomi, Faezeh Moosavi-Movahedi, Luciano Saso, Mehran Habibi-Rezaei, Ali Khatibi, Jun Hong, Ali A. Moosavi-Movahedi
Summary: Oxidative stresses play a pivotal role in various pathophysiological conditions. The Keap1/Nrf2 pathway is a dual-edged sword with beneficial effects on both normal and cancer cells by regulating endogenous antioxidant enzymes. Targeting the Nrf2/HO-1 axis is considered a novel strategy for cancer treatment, especially in lung cancer.
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Yumin Wang, Luyan Gao, Jichao Chen, Qiang Li, Liang Huo, Yanchao Wang, Hongquan Wang, Jichen Du
Summary: Parkinson's disease is a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain. Oxidative stress has been implicated in its pathogenesis, with the transcription factor Nrf2 playing a key role in activating protective genes against oxidative stress. Recent studies have shown that bioactive compounds can activate Nrf2 and ameliorate neurotoxins associated with PD, suggesting a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of the disease.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Rui Li, Xin Zeng, Meihua Yang, Xiaohui Xu, Jinmei Feng, Liming Bao, Bingqian Xue, Xin Wang, Yi Huang
Summary: The study found that DPP-4i may accelerate murine breast cancer metastasis by promoting an oncogenic ROS-NRF2-HO-1 axis, inducing aberrant oxidative stress through ROS overproduction. Therefore, this research not only reveals the oncogenic role of DPP-4i in breast cancer progression but also provides a new strategy to alleviate the adverse effects of DPP-4i by targeting HO-1.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eniko Balogh, Arpan Chowdhury, Haneen Ababneh, David Mate Csiki, Andrea Toth, Viktoria Jeney
Summary: Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is characterized by fibro-calcific remodeling of the aortic valves, and activation of the Nrf2/HO-1 pathway inhibits VIC calcification. This study demonstrates that heme-induced Nrf2/HO-1 expression in VICs inhibits calcification, attributing this effect to the end products generated by HO-1-mediated heme degradation and ferritin.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Xinfeng Zhou, Yijian Zhang, Mingzhuang Hou, Hao Liu, Huilin Yang, Xi Chen, Tao Liu, Fan He, Xuesong Zhu
Summary: Melatonin enhances NRF2 protein levels by inhibiting miR-146a, improving early-stage osteoarthritis cartilage degradation, and holds therapeutic potential.
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Wei -Chun Chen, Chung-Hao Huang, Wangta Liu, Jin-Ching Lee
Summary: Dengue virus (DENV) infection is a life-threatening disease with no effective treatment options. However, a study found that sulforaphane (SFN) has significant antiviral activity against DENV by inducing heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expression and inhibiting viral protease activity. This suggests that SFN could be a promising candidate for treating DENV.
ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Maria G. Detsika, Elias A. Lianos
Summary: Heme oxygenase-1 has a new cytoprotective role by regulating the complement control protein, which helps prevent kidney injury. Targeting HO-1 induction in specific cells could be a novel approach to attenuate complement-dependent kidney diseases.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Valeria Consoli, Valeria Sorrenti, Salvo Grosso, Luca Vanella
Summary: Heme-oxygenase (HO-1) plays a crucial role in maintaining cellular oxidative damage and has implications in cancer research and antioxidant activity.
Article
Cell Biology
Jiawen Yang, Jiajie Mo, Juji Dai, Chenqiao Ye, Wei Cen, Xuzhi Zheng, Lei Jiang, Lechi Ye
Summary: This study demonstrates that cetuximab enhances the cytotoxic effect of RSL3 on KRAS mutant CRC cells by regulating the p38/Nrf2/HO-1 axis to promote ferroptosis. These findings suggest a potential strategy to overcome drug resistance in KRAS mutant colorectal cancer.
CELL DEATH & DISEASE
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Virginia Athanassiadou, Stella Plavoukou, Eirini Grapsa, Maria G. Detsika
Summary: The protein heme oxygenase-1 plays a key role in kidney disease and affects immune pathways and responses, as demonstrated by animal models and patient studies.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Aya E. Mohamed, Ayman M. Mahmoud, Wafaa R. Mohamed, Tarek Mohamed
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic potential and underlying mechanism of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) for liver fibrosis in rats. The results showed that LLLT attenuated CCl4-induced liver fibrosis by suppressing extracellular matrix (ECM) production and deposition, reducing oxidative injury and inflammation, and upregulating PPAR gamma and Nrf2/HO-1 signaling.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Aneta Stachowicz, Alia Sadiq, Brian Walker, Niveda Sundararaman, Justyna Fert-Bober
Summary: This study revealed that the treatment with BB-Cl leads to increased expression of HO-1 through the Nrf2 pathway, which can prevent excessive tissue damage and provide substantial clinical benefits for the treatment of cardiac fibrosis.
BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhen Liang, Zhaoshi Zheng, Qi Guo, Meng Tian, Jing Yang, Xiu Liu, Xiaojuan Zhu, Songyan Liu
Summary: This study investigates the role of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha/heme oxygenase (HO)-1 in hippocampal neuron ferroptosis during epilepsy. The results suggest that there are metabolic differences between epilepsy patients and healthy individuals, with increased oxidative stress, heightened bilirubin, and augmented iron metabolism in epileptic blood. The active HIF-1 pathway in epileptic pathogenesis and perturbations in HIF-1 alpha signaling are reinforced by the analysis. The study implicates that HIF-1 alpha/HO-1 potentially regulates hippocampal neuronal ferroptosis, iron metabolism, and oxidative stress, thereby promoting the propagation of epilepsy.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Chih-Chung Lin, Wei-Ning Lin, Rou-Ling Cho, Chien-Chung Yang, Yi-Cheng Yeh, Li-Der Hsiao, Hui-Ching Tseng, Chuen-Mao Yang
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chuen-Mao Yang, Chih-Chung Lin, Chien-Chung Yang, Rou-Ling Cho, Li-Der Hsiao
Article
Immunology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Hui-Ching Tseng, Ching-Ming Kuo, Chuen-Mao Yang
JOURNAL OF INFLAMMATION RESEARCH
(2020)
Review
Immunology
Chien-Chung Yang, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: The pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases is associated with pro-inflammatory factors, ROS, bacterial toxins, and viruses. Oxidative stress plays a role in maintaining cellular redox balance, but excessive ROS production is often induced by excessive stimulation of the mitochondrial electron transport chain and xanthine oxidase, leading to inflammation.
JOURNAL OF INFLAMMATION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Cell Biology
Chih-Chung Lin, Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: In rat brain astrocytes (RBA-1) cells, CORM-3-induced HO-1 expression is partially mediated through Nox and mitochondria/ROS-dependent PI3K/Akt/mTOR cascade to activate FoxO1 or ROS leading to activation of Nrf2 activity, as demonstrated by transfection with siRNAs or pretreatment with pharmacological inhibitors. Additionally, pretreatment with N-acetyl-L-cysteine, diphenyleneiodonium chloride, apocynin, or rotenone blocked nuclear translocation and promoter binding activity of Nrf2 induced by CORM-3 in RBA-1 cells.
OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Chuen-Mao Yang, Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Chia-Ying Yu, Hui-Ching Tseng, Chih-Kai Hsu, Jiro Hasegawa Situmorang
Summary: The study found that TNF-α induces upregulation of COX-2 and PGE(2) through a TNFR1-dependent MitoROS/PKCα/p38 MAPK and JNK1/2 cascade to activate FoxO1 binding with the COX-2 promoter in HCFs. This sheds new light on the mechanisms of TNF-α in cardiac fibrosis and heart failure.
JOURNAL OF INFLAMMATION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Ya-Fang Shih, Zih-Yao Yu, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study demonstrates that rhamnetin attenuates the enhanced expression of MMP-9 induced by BK through inhibiting PKC delta/NOX/ROS/ERK1/2-dependent NF-kappa B activity in RBA-1 cells.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Chen-Yu Wang, Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study investigated the expression and regulatory mechanisms of NRROS in astrocytes under the influence of 15d-PGJ(2). The results demonstrated that 15d-PGJ(2) induced NRROS expression through the PI3K/Akt-dependent phosphorylation of FoxO1 and Sp1, as well as the Nrf2 cascade, which effectively suppressed ROS generation and IL-6 expression.
NEUROTOXICITY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Ya-Fang Shih, Chih-Kai Hsu, Chia-Yu Hu, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: Thrombin triggers the upregulation of COX-2 to promote the secretion of PGE(2), which involves the PAR1/G(q) or G(i/o)/PKCα/MAPK-dependent activation of NF-κB in HTSMCs.
MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Ya-Fang Shih, Hsin-Hui Lin, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study demonstrated that DDF induced upregulation of HO-1 expression via the EGFR/PKCα/PI3K/Akt-dependent Sp1 pathway in HCFs, leading to attenuation of inflammation responses.
OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Ya-Fang Shih, Mei-Hsiu Su, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study explores the comprehensive mechanisms of how S1P promotes the expression of COX-2 and PGE(2) and induces apoptosis in human cardiac fibroblasts (HCFs) through the activation of MMP9/EGFR-mediated PI3K/Akt/MAPKs-dependent AP-1 activity.
OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Ya-Fang Shih, Ching- Chang, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: 15d-PGJ(2) induces the expression of HO-1 in bEnd.3 cells through the activation of NOX- and mitochondria-derived ROS-dependent PKC delta/JNK1/2/Sp1/AP-1 signaling pathway, thus protecting against inflammatory responses.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, Li-Der Hsiao, Chen-Yu Wang, Wei-Ning Lin, Ya-Fang Shih, Yi-Wen Chen, Rou-Ling Cho, Hui-Ching Tseng, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study demonstrates that kaempferol (KPR) can induce HO-1 expression and attenuate inflammation in pulmonary alveolar epithelial cells (HPAEpiCs) through the activation of NOX/ROS/c-Src/Pyk2/PKCα/p38α MAPK and JNK1/2 pathways. The findings suggest that KPR could be a potential strategy for protecting against pulmonary inflammation.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chuen-Mao Yang, Chien-Chung Yang, Wun-Hsin Hsu, Li-Der Hsiao, Hui-Ching Tseng, Ya-Fang Shih
Summary: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiac injury, inflammation, and apoptosis. TNF-alpha-induced CCL20 secretion in human cardiac fibroblasts is mediated through a TNFR1-dependent EGFR/p38 MAPK and JNK1/2/FoxO1 or NF-kappa B cascade.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chien-Chung Yang, I-Ta Lee, Yan-Jyun Lin, Wen-Bin Wu, Li-Der Hsiao, Chuen-Mao Yang
Summary: This study confirmed that thrombin induces the production of COX-2 and PGE(2) in human tracheal smooth muscle cells, leading to inflammation in the airways and lungs. The study identified specific signaling pathways involved, including the PKC delta/Pyk2/c-Src/EGFR/PI3K/Akt/AP-1 pathway. Resveratrol was also found to inhibit COX-2 and PGE(2) production by blocking the activation of these signaling molecules, suggesting its potential use in managing airway inflammation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)