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. 2019 Feb 20;10:97. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00097

Table 3.

The effects of Salvianolic acids on cancer.

Type of cancer Compounds Cells/Tissues Effects Reference
Breast cancer Sal A MCF-7/PTX cells ABC transporter Drug resistance PI3K/Akt signaling Transgelin 2 Cell migration and invasion Cai et al., 2014; Zheng et al., 2015
MCF-7 cells Cell proliferation Cell apoptosis Multidrug resistance Wang et al., 2015
Mitochondrial membrane potential
MCF7cells MDA-MB-231 cells Multidrug resistance Drug delivery system Ding et al., 2016
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Sal B HN13 cells HN30 cells Cell apoptosis Cell cycle Li H. et al., 2016
JHU-022 cells JHU-013 cells Cell growth Tumor volumes Hao et al., 2009
JHU-06 cells JHU-011 cells JHU-013 cells JHU-022 cells Cell apoptosis Tumor volumes Zhao et al., 2010
Lung cancer Sal A W1-38 cells A549 cells P46 (JNK/SAPK) expression Li et al., 2002
Sal B A549 cells COX-2 activity Cell growth Tao et al., 2014
Salvianolic acids A549 cells PTEN/PI3K/AKT pathway EMT Yang et al., 2017
Sal A A549 cells MDR1 microRNA Chen F. Y. et al., 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma Sal B Hamsters tissues Angiogenesis Hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha Vascular endothelium growth factor protein Zhou et al., 2006
Oral squamous cell carcinoma Sal B CAL27 cells SCC4 cells HIF-1α, TNFα MMP9 THBS2 anti-angiogenic Yang et al., 2011
Sal A SCC-9 cells SCC-25 cells MMP-2 c-Raf/MEK/ERK Invasion and migration of OSCC Fang et al., 2018
Retinoblastoma Sal B HXO-RB44 cells Cell apoptosis Cell cycle Cell growth Liu, 2012
Ovarian cancer Sal B SKOV3 cells Cell apoptosis livin Cell growth Yan, 2016
Melanoma Danshensu B16F10 cells Tumor angiogenesis Tumor invasion Zhang et al., 2010
Colorectal cancer Sal B LoVo cells HCT-116 cells CD44, SOX2 ABCG2 multidrug resistance Guo et al., 2018
HCT116 cells HT29 cells AKT/mTOR pathway Cell autophagy Jing et al., 2016
Liver cancer Sal B HCC cells Cell apoptosis Cell autophagy AKT/mTOR pathway Gong et al., 2016
Salvianolic acids HepG2 Cell invasion TGF-β/ Smad Liu et al., 2010
Sal A H22 cells Tumor growth Li et al., 2002