1. Curcumin Can Improve Spinal Cord Injury by Inhibiting TGF-β-SOX9 Signaling Pathway.
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Yuan J, Botchway BOA, Zhang Y, Tan X, Wang X, and Liu X
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- Animals, Curcumin pharmacology, Humans, NF-kappa B metabolism, Spinal Cord Injuries metabolism, Curcumin therapeutic use, SOX9 Transcription Factor metabolism, Signal Transduction, Spinal Cord Injuries drug therapy, Transforming Growth Factor beta metabolism
- Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe nervous system disease with high morbidity and disability rate. Signaling pathways play a key role in the neuronal restorative mechanism following SCI. SRY-related high mobility group (HMG)-box gene 9 (SOX9) affects glial scar formation via Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway. Activation of nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) is transferred into nucleus to upregulate TGF-β-SOX9. Curcumin exhibits potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Curcumin can play an important role in SCI recovery by inhibiting the expression of NF-κB and TGF-β-SOX9. Herein, we review the potential mechanism of curcumin-inhibiting SOX9 signaling pathway in SCI treatment. The inhibition of NF-κB and SOX9 signaling pathway by curcumin has the potentiality of serving as neuronal regenerative mechanism following SCI.
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- 2019
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