Tanshinones are a class of chemical compounds. Examples include
dihydrotanshinone
Dihydrotanshinone I (DI) is a naturally occurring compound extracted from ''Salvia miltiorrhiza'' Bunge, also known as Chinese sage, red sage root, and the Chinese herbal Dan Shen. It belongs to a class of lipophilic abietane diterpenoids and has ...
,
tanshinone I
Tanshinones are a class of chemical compounds. Examples include dihydrotanshinone, tanshinone I, or tanshinone IIA. These compounds are all naturally occurring and can all be isolated from ''Salvia miltiorrhiza''.
Dihydrotanshinone I has bee ...
, or
tanshinone IIA
Tanshinones are a class of chemical compounds. Examples include dihydrotanshinone, tanshinone I, or tanshinone IIA. These compounds are all naturally occurring and can all be isolated from ''Salvia miltiorrhiza''.
Dihydrotanshinone I has been ...
. These compounds are all naturally occurring and can all be isolated from ''
Salvia miltiorrhiza
''Salvia miltiorrhiza'' (), also known as red sage, Chinese sage, tan shen, or danshen, is a perennial plant in the genus ''Salvia'', highly valued for its roots in traditional Chinese medicine. Native to China and Japan, it grows at elevation, ...
''.
Dihydrotanshinone I has been reported to have
cytotoxicity to a variety of tumor cells.
Tanshinone I is
anti-inflammatory
Anti-inflammatory is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs, also called anti-inflammatories, make up about half of analgesics. These drugs remedy pain by reducing inflammation as o ...
, and modulates or prevents
breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a r ...
metastasis
Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then ...
by regulating
adhesion molecules.
Tanshinone IIA is anti-inflammatory, an
antioxidant, and cytotoxic against a variety of
cell lines.
References
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