General Information of the Drug (ID: ferrodrug0440)
Name
Carthamin yellow
Drug Type
Others
Full List of Ferroptosis Target Related to This Drug
Long-chain-fatty-acid--CoA ligase 4 (ACSL4)
In total 1 item(s) under this Target
Experiment 1 Reporting the Ferroptosis-centered Drug Act on This Target [1]
Target for Ferroptosis Driver
Responsed Disease Cerebral ischaemic stroke ICD-11: 8B11
Pathway Response Fatty acid metabolism hsa01212
Ferroptosis hsa04216
NF-kappa B signaling pathway hsa04064
Cell Process Cell ferroptosis
In Vitro Model hBCs (Brain cells)
In Vivo Model
A total of 32 male Sprague-Dawley rats (aged 6-8 weeks; 250-280 g) were purchased from Shanghai Sipper-BK Lab Animal Co., Ltd. Animals were randomly divided into the following four groups (n = 8 per group): i) Sham; ii) MCAO; iii) CY (20 mg/kg); and iv) CY (40 mg/kg). CY was administered intragastrically to rats once daily for 2 weeks. At 60 min after the last administration, MCAO surgery was performed as previously described. At 24 h post-reperfusion, neurological scores, brain water content and infarct volume were determined.

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Response regulation Carthamin yellow (CY) treatment inhibited Fe2+ and reactive oxygen species accumulation, and reversed acylCoA synthetase longchain family member 4, transferrin receptor 1, glutathione peroxidase 4 and ferritin heavy chain 1 protein expression levels in the brain. Collectively, the results of the present study demonstrated that CY protected rats against ischemic stroke, which was associated with mitigation of inflammation and ferroptosis.
References
Ref 1 Carthamin yellow improves cerebral ischemiareperfusion injury by attenuating inflammation and ferroptosis in rats. Int J Mol Med. 2021 Apr;47(4):52. doi: 10.3892/ijmm.2021.4885. Epub 2021 Feb 12.