picrocrocin

12/01/2020 - "In this study, the steered molecular dynamics simulation was used for investigating the effect of four main components of saffron that include: crocin, crocetin, safranal, and picrocrocin as candidate for drug molecules, on COVID-19. "
09/01/2021 - "Three main compounds of saffron, i.e., crocetin esters, picrocrocin, and safranal, present strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action for several disease states (e.g., Alzheimer's, cancer, and depression) but have also been studied in COVID-19. "

07/01/2018 - "In this study the anticancer effects of picrocrocin on the human SK-MEL-2 malignant melanoma cell line were evaluated along with its mode of action. "
07/01/2018 - "Finally, picrocrocin inhibited the JAK/STAT5 signalling pathway in the SK-MEL-2 melanoma cells. "
07/01/2018 - "Picrocrocin exerted growth inhibitory effects on the SK-MEL-2 melanoma cells. "
07/01/2018 - "Picrocrocin exhibits growth inhibitory effects against SKMEL- 2 human malignant melanoma cells by targeting JAK/ STAT5 signaling pathway, cell cycle arrest and mitochondrial mediated apoptosis."
07/01/2018 - "Taken together, these results indicate that picrocrocin can prove to be an important molecule in the search of more efficient therapies for melanoma."

02/01/2015 - "Interestingly, the multimodality treatment using DNA vaccine along with picrocrocin augmented the anti-tumor effects of picrocrocin. "
02/27/1996 - "Crocin, safranal and picrocrocin from saffron (Crocus sativus L.) inhibit the growth of human cancer cells in vitro."
04/01/2018 - "Articles were searched using the keywords "Lung", "breast", "skin", "prostate", "leukemia", "cancer", "neoplasm", "tumor", "malignancy", "saffron", "crocus sativus", "crocin", "crocetin", "picrocrocin", and "safranal". "
09/01/2021 - "Three main compounds of saffron, i.e., crocetin esters, picrocrocin, and safranal, present strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action for several disease states (e.g., Alzheimer's, cancer, and depression) but have also been studied in COVID-19. "

01/15/2014 - "Different aliquots of the same saffron sample were subjected to various dehydration conditions and analysed by UV-Vis spectrophotometry to determine crocins, picrocrocin and safranal.. "
02/12/2021 - "In this work, the effect of microwave dehydration on saffron main metabolites (picrocrocin, safranal and crocetin esters) from Crocus sativus L. "
02/12/2021 - "Stigmas Microwave Dehydration on Picrocrocin, Safranal and Crocetin Esters."

01/01/2018 - "Crocin and picrocrocin could be a promising anti-HSV and anti-HIV agent for herbal therapy against viral infections."