A network pharmacology approach to reveal the pharmacological targets and biological mechanism of compound kushen injection for treating pancreatic cancer based on WGCNA and in vitro experiment validation.
Chao WuZhi-Hong HuangZi-Qi MengXiao-Tian FanShan LuYing-Ying TanLei-Ming YouJia-Qi HuangAntony StalinPei-Zhi YeZhi-Shan WuJing-Yuan ZhangXin-Kui LiuWei ZhouXiao-Meng ZhangJia-Rui WuPublished in: Chinese medicine (2021)
Overall, this study suggests that the optimized network pharmacology approach is suitable to explore the molecular mechanism of CKI in the treatment of PC, which provides a reference for further investigating biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of PC and even the clinical rational application of CKI.