TABLE 1.

Several molecular target and therapeutic role of different drugs in autophagy modulation in gastric cancer cells.

Compounds	Experimental model	Autophagy mechanism	References
Chloroquine	Bone marrow stromal cells	Autophagy induction	Lin et al. (2021a)
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs	SGC-7901 cells	Autophagy induction	Fletcher et al. (2021)
3-Methylalanine	SGC-7901 cells	Class III PI3K inhibitor and suppresses autophagy	Li et al. (2013)
Bafilomycin A1 (BAF-1)	MGC-803 cells	Autophagy induction	Bai et al. (2018)
β2-Adrenergic receptor	Human SGC-7901 and BGC-823 cells	AMPK-ULK1 mediated autophagy induction	Zhi et al. (2019)
Indomethacin	AGS cells	Lysosomal-mediated autophagy induction	Ahmed et al. (2021)
CXCL12	NUGC4 cell	mTOR-mediated autophagy activation	Mele et al. (2020)
Compound C	AGS cells	Inhibitory role of autophagy	Li et al. (2013)
Rapamycin	Human SGC-7901 and BGC-823 cells	Induction of autophagy	Chen et al. (2021b)