"Curcumin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A yellow-orange dye obtained from tumeric, the powdered root of CURCUMA longa. It is used in the preparation of curcuma paper and the detection of boron. Curcumin appears to possess a spectrum of pharmacological properties, due primarily to its inhibitory effects on metabolic enzymes.
| Descriptor ID |
D003474
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.485.222.222 D02.455.426.559.389.657.166.200 D02.455.426.559.694.222
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| Concept/Terms |
Curcumin- Curcumin
- Turmeric Yellow
- Yellow, Turmeric
- Diferuloylmethane
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Curcumin" by people in Profiles.
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The effect of combined photobiomodulation and curcumin on skin wound healing in type I diabetes in rats. J Photochem Photobiol B. 2018 Apr; 181:23-30.
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New MD2 inhibitors derived from curcumin with improved anti-inflammatory activity. Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Mar 25; 148:291-305.
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Some Like it Hot: Cardioprotective Effect of Curcumin in Chronic Kidney Disease : Editorial to: "Cardioprotection by Curcumin Post-Treatment in Rats with Established Chronic Kidney Disease" by S. Hernandez-Resendiz et al. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2015 Apr; 29(2):101-3.
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Cis-parinaric acid effects, cytotoxicity, c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase, forkhead transcription factor and Mn-SOD differentially in malignant and normal astrocytes. Neurochem Res. 2007 Jan; 32(1):115-24.
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Synthetic curcumin analogs inhibit activator protein-1 transcription and tumor-induced angiogenesis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Aug 20; 321(2):337-44.
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Determination of binding constant of transcription factor myc-max/max-max and E-box DNA: the effect of inhibitors on the binding. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2004 Feb 24; 1670(3):217-28.