Products with Anti-multidrug resistance bioactivity
| Cat.No. | Product Name |
|---|---|
| BCN5575 | Sarpagine |
| 1. Sarpagine is effective in reversing multidrug-resistance (MDR) in vincristine-resistant KB cells. | |
| BCN5955 | Tetrandrine |
| Tetrandrine is a calcium channel blocker, which shows antitumor, antifibrotic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive activity. It suppressed Wnt/β-catenin signaling transduction, the migration of DU145 and PC-3 cells, EOMA cell growth through the ROS/Akt pathway and inhibited inward rectifying potassium current in cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells. | |
| BCN6269 | L-Nicotine |
| Nicotine is a potent inhibitor of cardiac A-type K+ channels, with blockade probably due to block of closed and open channels, this action may contribute to the ability of nicotine to affect cardiac electrophysiology and induce arrhythmias.Nicotine is able to activate mitogenic signalling pathways, which promote cell growth or survival as well as increase chemoresistance of cancer cells, nicotine activates its downstream signalling to interfere with the ubiquitination process and prevent Bcl-2 from being degraded in lung cancer cells, resulting in the increase of chemoresistance. | |
| BCN6602 | Wallichinine |
| 1. Wallichinine shows inhibitory activity on platelet aggregation caused by platelet activating factor (PAF). 2. Wallichinine can significantly potentiate the effects of two ABCB1 substrates vincristine and doxorubicin on inhibition of growth, arrest of cell cycle and induction of apoptosis in ABCB1 overexpressing cancer cells, and the overexpression of ABCB1 in cancer cells is one of the main reasons of cancer multidrug resistance (MDR), suggests that wallichinine with ABCB1 presents valuable clues for the development of novel MDR reversal reagents from natural products. | |
| BCN6611 | Torilin |
| 1. Torilin has anti-inflammatory properties, it inhibits inflammation by limiting TAK1-mediated MAP kinase and NF-κB activation. 2. Torilin can attenuate arthritis severity, modify leukocyte activations in dLNs or joints, and restore serum and splenocyte cytokine imbalances, it may have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties with the capacity to ameliorate the inflammatory response in collagen-induced-arthritis-(CIA)-mice. 3. Torilin inhibits melanin production in alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-activated B16 melanoma cells, with an IC(50) value of 25 microM. 4. Torilin shows excellent antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 spores and vegetative cells, it functions as a surfactant with hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties related to denaturalization of various proteins,the distortion of coat proteins due to direct binding polar groups of spore coats with hydrophilic groups of torilin may be responsible for the observed rapid inactivation of bacterial spores. 5. Torilin has a potent anti-angiogenic activity both in vivo and in vitro, and it may have a strong activity to suppress tumorigenesis by inhibition of tumor invasion. 6. Torilin is an inhibitor of testosterone 5 alpha-reductase, it (IC50 = 31.7 +/- 4.23 microM) shows a stronger inhibition of 5 alpha-reductase than alpha-linolenic acid (IC50 = 160.3 +/- 24.62 microM) but is weaker than finasteride (IC50 = 0.38 +/- 0.06 microM). 7. Torilin reverses multidrug-resistance in cancer cells, it can potentiate the cytotoxicities of adriamycin, vinblastine, taxol and colchicine against multidrug-resistant KB-V1 and MCF7/ADR cells. 8. Torilin and torilolone show hepatoprotective effects on tacrine-induced cytotoxicity in human liver-derived Hep G2 cells, the EC50 values are 20.6 +/- 1.86 and 3.6 +/- 0.1 microM, respectively; and silybin as a positive control shows an EC50 value of 69.0 +/- 3.4 microM. | |
