General Information of the Drug (ID: ferrodrug0382)
Name
Astragalus polysaccharide
Drug Type
Small molecule
Full List of Ferroptosis Target Related to This Drug
Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NFE2L2)
In total 1 item(s) under this Target
Experiment 1 Reporting the Ferroptosis-centered Drug Act on This Target [1]
Target for Ferroptosis Marker/Suppressor
Responsed Disease Ulcerative colitis ICD-11: DD71
Pathway Response Fatty acid metabolism hsa01212
Ferroptosis hsa04216
Cell Process Cell ferroptosis
In Vitro Model Caco-2 cells Colon adenocarcinoma Homo sapiens CVCL_0025
In Vivo Model
Six-eight-week-old male C57BL/6 mice weighing 19.74 ± 0.77 g were purchased from Shanghai Laboratory. To investigate the therapeutic effect of APS on DSS-induced colitis, mice were randomly divided into the following 5 groups (n = 5 each): control, DSS, DSS + APS (100 mg/kg), DSS + APS (200 mg/kg), and DSS + APS (300 mg/kg). The mice in the DSS + APS (100 mg/kg), DSS + APS (200 mg/kg), and DSS + APS (300 mg/kg) groups were intraperitoneally injected with 100, 200, and 300 mg/kg APS once a day, respectively from day 3 to day 10.

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Response regulation The therapeutic effects of Astragalus polysaccharide on DSS-induced Ulcerative colitis by blocking ferroptosis in IECs. Furthermore, our results revealed that APS-mediated inhibition of ferroptosis was associated with the NRF2/HO-1 pathway.
References
Ref 1 Astragalus polysaccharide prevents ferroptosis in a murine model of experimental colitis and human Caco-2cells via inhibiting NRF2/HO-1 pathway. Eur J Pharmacol. 2021 Nov 15;911:174518. doi: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2021.174518. Epub 2021 Sep 23.