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Representative high-impact publications by INPST members

Mills EL, Ryan DG, Prag HA, Dikovskaya D, Menon D, Zaslona Z, Jedrychowski MP, Costa ASH, Higgins M, Hams E, Szpyt J, Runtsch MC, King MS, McGouran JF, Fischer R, Kessler BM, McGettrick AF, Hughes MM, Carroll RG, Booty LM, Knatko EV, Meakin PJ, Ashford MLJ, Modis LK, Brunori G, Sévin DC, Fallon PG, Caldwell ST, Kunji ERS, Chouchani ET, Frezza C, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Hartley RC, Murphy MP, O’Neill LA. Itaconate is an anti-inflammatory metabolite that activates Nrf2 via alkylation of KEAP1. Nature. 2018 Apr 5;556(7699):113-117. 

Atanasov AG, Waltenberger B, Pferschy-Wenzig EM, Linder T, Wawrosch C, Uhrin P, Temml V, Wang L, Schwaiger S, Heiss EH, Rollinger JM, Schuster D, Breuss JM, Bochkov V, Mihovilovic MD, Kopp B, Bauer R, Dirsch VM, Stuppner H. Discovery and resupply of pharmacologically active plant-derived natural products: A review. Biotechnol Adv. 2015 Dec;33(8):1582-1614. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.08.001. Citations: > 600 Altmetric score: > 4000

Turner RB, Bauer R, Woelkart K, Hulsey TC, Gangemi JD. An evaluation of Echinacea angustifolia in experimental rhinovirus infections. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jul 28;353(4):341-8. Citations: > 250

Banach M, Patti AM, Giglio RV, Cicero AFG, Atanasov AG, Bajraktari G, Bruckert E, Descamps O, Djuric DM, Ezhov M, Fras Z, von Haehling S, Katsiki N, Langlois M, Latkovskis G, Mancini GBJ, Mikhailidis DP, Mitchenko O, Moriarty PM, Muntner P, Nikolic D, Panagiotakos DB, Paragh G, Paulweber B, Pella D, Pitsavos C, Reiner Ž, Rosano GMC, Rosenson RS, Rysz J, Sahebkar A, Serban MC, Vinereanu D, Vrablík M, Watts GF, Wong ND, Rizzo M; International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP). The Role of Nutraceuticals in Statin Intolerant Patients. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Jul 3;72(1):96-118. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.04.040. Review. PubMed PMID: 29957236.

Sato N, Meijer L, Skaltsounis L, Greengard P, Brivanlou AH. Maintenance of pluripotency in human and mouse embryonic stem cells through activation of Wnt signaling by a pharmacological GSK-3-specific inhibitor. Nat Med. 2004
Jan;10(1):55-63. Citations: > 2000

Dinkova-Kostova AT, Holtzclaw WD, Cole RN, Itoh K, Wakabayashi N, Katoh Y, Yamamoto M, Talalay P. Direct evidence that sulfhydryl groups of Keap1 are the sensors regulating induction of phase 2 enzymes that protect against carcinogens and oxidants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2002; 99: 11908-11913. Citations: > 1400

Pennica D, Nedwin GE, Hayflick JS, Seeburg PH, Derynck R, Palladino MA, Kohr WJ, Aggarwal BB, Goeddel DV. Human tumour necrosis factor: precursor structure, expression and homology to lymphotoxin. Nature. 1984 Dec 20-1985 Jan 2;312(5996):724-9. PubMed PMID: 6392892. Citations: > 2000

Sabatine MS, Giugliano RP, Keech AC, Honarpour N, Wiviott SD, Murphy SA, Kuder JF, Wang H, Liu T, Wasserman SM, Sever PS, Pedersen TR; FOURIER Steering Committee and Investigators. Evolocumab and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. N Engl J Med. 2017 May 4;376(18):1713-1722. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1615664. Citations: > 450

Schulz TJ, Zarse K, Voigt A, Urban N, Birringer M, Ristow M. Glucose restriction extends Caenorhabditis elegans life span by inducing mitochondrial respiration and increasing oxidative stress. Cell Metab. 2007 Oct;6(4):280-93. PubMed PMID: 17908557. Citations: > 700

Alleva R, Tomasetti M, Battino M, Curatola G, Littarru GP, Folkers K. The roles of coenzyme Q10 and vitamin E on the peroxidation of human low density lipoprotein subfractions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Sep 26;92(20):9388-91. PubMed PMID: 7568138.

Jutzi P, Mix A, Rummel B, Schoeller WW, Neumann B, Stammler HG. The (Me5C5)Si+ cation: a stable derivative of HSi+. Science. 2004 Aug 6;305(5685):849-51. Epub 2004 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 15232074.

Burits M, Bucar F. Antioxidant activity of Nigella sativa essential oil.
Phytother Res. 2000 Aug;14(5):323-8. PubMed PMID: 10925395. Citations: > 1500

Russo GL. Dietary n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: from biochemistry to clinical implications in cardiovascular prevention. Biochem Pharmacol. 2009 Mar 15;77(6):937-46. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2008.10.020. Citations: > 500

Milella RA, GasparroM, Alagna F, Cardone MF, Rotunno S, Ammollo CT, Semeraro F, Tullo A, Marzano F, Catalano D, Antonacci D, Colucci M, D’Elia D (2020) Gene expression signature induced by grape intake in healthy subjects reveals wide-spread beneficial effects on peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Journal of Functional Food, 64: 103705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2019.103705

Talalay P, Fahey J, Healy ZR, Wehage SL, Benedict AL, Min C, Dinkova-Kostova AT. Sulforaphane mobilizes cellular defenses that protect skin against damage by UV radiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007; 104: 17500-17505.

Bhatia HS, Baron J, Hagl S, Eckert GP, Fiebich BL. Rice bran derivatives alleviate microglia activation: possible involvement of MAPK pathway. J Neuroinflammation. 2016 Jun 14;13(1):148. doi: 10.1186/s12974-016-0615-6.

Levrier C, Sadowski MC, Nelson CC, Davis RA. Cytotoxic C20 Diterpenoid Alkaloids from the Australian Endemic Rainforest Plant Anopterus macleayanus. J Nat Prod. 2015 Dec 24;78(12):2908-16. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00509.

Schmeisser K, Mansfeld J, Kuhlow D, Weimer S, Priebe S, Heiland I, Birringer M, Groth M, Segref A, Kanfi Y, Price NL, Schmeisser S, Schuster S, Pfeiffer AF, Guthke R, Platzer M, Hoppe T, Cohen HY, Zarse K, Sinclair DA, Ristow M. Role of sirtuins in lifespan regulation is linked to methylation of nicotinamide. Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Nov;9(11):693-700. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.1352.

Kalin JH, Wu M, Gomez AV, Song Y, Das J, Hayward D, Adejola N, Wu M, Panova I, Chung HJ, Kim E, Roberts HJ, Roberts JM, Prusevich P, Jeliazkov JR, Roy Burman SS, Fairall L, Milano C, Eroglu A, Proby CM, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Hancock WW, Gray JJ, Bradner JE, Valente S, Mai A, Anders NM, Rudek MA, Hu Y, Ryu B, Schwabe JWR, Mattevi A, Alani RM, Cole PA. Targeting the CoREST complex with dual histone deacetylase and demethylase inhibitors. Nat Commun. 2018 Jan 4;9(1):53. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02242-4.

Russo M, Spagnuolo C, Tedesco I, Bilotto S, Russo GL. The flavonoid quercetin in disease prevention and therapy: facts and fancies. Biochem Pharmacol. 2012 Jan 1;83(1):6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.08.010. Citations: > 350

Bhatia HS, Roelofs N, Muñoz E, Fiebich BL. Alleviation of Microglial Activation Induced by p38 MAPK/MK2/PGE(2) Axis by Capsaicin: Potential Involvement of other than TRPV1 Mechanism/s. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 8;7(1):116. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00225-5.

Dinkova-Kostova AT, Massiah MA, Bozak RE, Hicks RJ, Talalay P. Potency of Michael reaction acceptors as inducers of enzymes that protect against carcinogenesis depends on their reactivity with sulfhydryl groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Mar 13;98(6):3404-9. Citations: > 500

Alvarez-Suarez JM, Giampieri F, Tulipani S, Casoli T, Di Stefano G, González-Paramás AM, Santos-Buelga C, Busco F, Quiles JL, Cordero MD, Bompadre S, Mezzetti B, Battino M. One-month strawberry-rich anthocyanin supplementation ameliorates cardiovascular risk, oxidative stress markers and platelet activation in humans. J Nutr Biochem. 2014 Mar;25(3):289-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2013.11.002.

Shekh-Ahmad T, Eckel R, Dayalan Naidu S, Higgins M, Yamamoto M, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Kovac S, Abramov AY, Walker MC. KEAP1 inhibition is neuroprotective and suppresses the development of epilepsy. Brain. 2018 May 1;141(5):1390-1403.

Blunt JW, Carroll AR, Copp BR, Davis RA, Keyzers RA, Prinsep MR. Marine natural products. Nat. Prod. Rep., 2018, 35, 8–53. doi: 10.1039/C7NP00052A.

Duvoix A, Blasius R, Delhalle S, Schnekenburger M, Morceau F, Henry E, Dicato M, Diederich M. Chemopreventive and therapeutic effects of curcumin. Cancer Lett. 2005 Jun 8;223(2):181-90. Citations: > 750

Braidy N, Essa MM, Poljak A, et al. Consumption of pomegranates improves synaptic function in a transgenic mice model of Alzheimer’s disease. Oncotarget. 2016;7(40):64589-64604. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.10905.

Dinkova-Kostova AT, Liby KT, Stephenson KK, Holtzclaw WD, Gao X, Suh N, Williams C, Risingsong R, Honda T, Gribble GW, Sporn MB, Talalay P. Extremely potent triterpenoid inducers of the phase 2 response: correlations of protection against oxidant and inflammatory stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Mar 22;102(12):4584-9. Citations: > 400

Braidy N, Guillemin GJ, Mansour H, Chan-Ling T, Poljak A, Grant R. Age related changes in NAD+ metabolism oxidative stress and Sirt1 activity in wistar rats. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 26;6(4):e19194. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019194. Citations: > 250

Arnison PG, Bibb MJ, Bierbaum G, Bowers AA, Bugni TS, Bulaj G, Camarero JA, Campopiano DJ, Challis GL, Clardy J, Cotter PD, Craik DJ, Dawson M, Dittmann E, Donadio S, Dorrestein PC, Entian KD, Fischbach MA, Garavelli JS, Göransson U, Gruber CW, Haft DH et al. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature. Nat Prod Rep. 2013 Jan;30(1):108-60. doi: 10.1039/c2np20085f. Citations: > 600

Giulia Cappelli, Daniela Giovannini, Anna Lisa Basso, Olivia Costantina Demurtas, Gianfranco Diretto, Chiara Santi, Gabriella Girelli, Loretta Bacchetta, Francesca Mariani. A Corylus avellana L. extract enhances human macrophage bactericidal response against Staphylococcus aureus by increasing the expression of anti-inflammatory and iron metabolism genes, Journal of Functional Foods, Volume 45, June 2018, Pages 499-511,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2018.04.007.

Candelario-Jalil E, de Oliveira AC, Gräf S, Bhatia HS, Hüll M, Muñoz E, Fiebich BL. Resveratrol potently reduces prostaglandin E2 production and free radical formation in lipopolysaccharide-activated primary rat microglia. J Neuroinflammation. 2007 Oct 10;4:25. PubMed PMID: 17927823.

Georgiev MI, Agostini E, Ludwig-Müller J, Xu J. Genetically transformed roots: from plant disease to biotechnological resource. Trends Biotechnol. 2012 Oct;30(10):528-37. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2012.07.001.

Braun T, Noveski D, Neumann B, Stammler HG. Conversion of hexafluoropropene into 1,1,1-trifluoropropane by rhodium-mediated C[bond]F activation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2002 Aug 2;41(15):2745-8. PubMed PMID: 12203472.

Vacca RA, de Pinto MC, Valenti D, Passarella S, Marra E, De Gara L. Production of reactive oxygen species, alteration of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase, and impairment of mitochondrial metabolism are early events in heat shock-induced programmed cell death in tobacco Bright-Yellow 2 cells. Plant Physiol. 2004 Mar;134(3):1100-12. Citations: > 300

Gao X, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Talalay P. Powerful and prolonged protection of human retinal pigment epithelial cells, keratinocytes, and mouse leukemia cells against oxidative damage: the indirect antioxidant effects of sulforaphane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Dec 18;98(26):15221-6.

Radogna F, Diederich M, Ghibelli L. Melatonin: a pleiotropic molecule regulating inflammation. Biochem Pharmacol. 2010 Dec 15;80(12):1844-52. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2010.07.041. Citations: > 200

Colantonio LD, Bittner V, Reynolds K, Levitan EB, Rosenson RS, Banach M, Kent ST, Derose SF, Zhou H, Safford MM, Muntner P. Association of Serum Lipids and Coronary Heart Disease in Contemporary Observational Studies. Circulation. 2016 Jan 19;133(3):256-64. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.011646.

Daglia M. Polyphenols as antimicrobial agents. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2012 Apr;23(2):174-81. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.08.007. Citations: > 450

D’Onofrio G, Sancarlo D, Ruan Q, Yu Z, Panza F, Daniele A, Greco A, Seripa D. Phytochemicals in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review. Curr Drug Targets. 2017;18(13):1487-1498. doi: 10.2174/1389450117666161102121553. PubMed PMID: 27809746.

Koehbach J, O’Brien M, Muttenthaler M, Miazzo M, Akcan M, Elliott AG, Daly NL, Harvey PJ, Arrowsmith S, Gunasekera S, Smith TJ, Wray S, Göransson U, Dawson PE, Craik DJ, Freissmuth M, Gruber CW. Oxytocic plant cyclotides as templates for peptide G protein-coupled receptor ligand design. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 24;110(52):21183-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1311183110.

Elshazly MB, Quispe R, Michos ED, Sniderman AD, Toth PP, Banach M, Kulkarni KR, Coresh J, Blumenthal RS, Jones SR, Martin SS. Patient-Level Discordance in Population Percentiles of the Total Cholesterol to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio in Comparison With Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol: The Very Large Database of Lipids Study (VLDL-2B). Circulation. 2015 Aug 25;132(8):667-76. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.016163.

Gluba A, Banach M, Hannam S, Mikhailidis DP, Sakowicz A, Rysz J. The role of Toll-like receptors in renal diseases. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2010 Apr;6(4):224-35. doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.16.

Goette A, Merino JL, Ezekowitz MD, Zamoryakhin D, Melino M, Jin J, Mercuri MF, Grosso MA, Fernandez V, Al-Saady N, Pelekh N, Merkely B, Zenin S, Kushnir M, Spinar J, Batushkin V, de Groot JR, Lip GY; ENSURE-AF investigators. Edoxaban versus enoxaparin-warfarin in patients undergoing cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (ENSURE-AF): a randomised, open-label, phase 3b trial. Lancet. 2016 Oct 22;388(10055):1995-2003. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31474-X.

Alvarez-Suarez JM, Dekanski D, Ristić S, Radonjić NV, Petronijević ND, Giampieri F, Astolfi P, González-Paramás AM, Santos-Buelga C, Tulipani S, Quiles JL, Mezzetti B, Battino M. Strawberry polyphenols attenuate ethanol-induced gastric lesions in rats by activation of antioxidant enzymes and attenuation of MDA increase. PLoS One. 2011;6(10):e25878. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025878.

Liu H, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Talalay P. Coordinate regulation of enzyme markers for inflammation and for protection against oxidants and electrophiles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Oct 14;105(41):15926-31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808346105.

Klionsky DJ et al. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy. 2016;12(1):1-222. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356. Citations: > 3800

Mariscalco G, Klersy C, Zanobini M, Banach M, Ferrarese S, Borsani P, Cantore C, Biglioli P, Sala A. Atrial fibrillation after isolated coronary surgery affects late survival. Circulation. 2008 Oct 14;118(16):1612-8. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.777789. Citations: > 200

Moghaddam A, Zhang HT, Fan TP, Hu DE, Lees VC, Turley H, Fox SB, Gatter KC, Harris AL, Bicknell R. Thymidine phosphorylase is angiogenic and promotes tumor growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Feb 14;92(4):998-1002. PubMed PMID: 7532308. Citations: > 400

Wibowo M, Wang Q, Holst J, White JM, Hofmann A, Davis RA. Celastrofurans A-G: Dihydro-β-agarofurans from the Australian Rainforest Vine Celastrus subspicata and Their Inhibitory Effect on Leucine Transport in Prostate Cancer Cells. J Nat Prod. 2017 Jun 23;80(6):1918-1925. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00220.

Russo GL, Tedesco I, Spagnuolo C, Russo M. Antioxidant polyphenols in cancer treatment: Friend, foe or foil? Semin Cancer Biol. 2017 Oct;46:1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.05.005.

Bishayee A, Sarkar A, Chatterjee M. Hepatoprotective activity of carrot (Daucus carota L.) against carbon tetrachloride intoxication in mouse liver. J Ethnopharmacol. 1995 Jul 7;47(2):69-74. PubMed PMID: 7500638.

Vacca RA, Valenti D, Caccamese S, Daglia M, Braidy N, Nabavi SM. Plant polyphenols as natural drugs for the management of Down syndrome and related disorders. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2016 Dec;71:865-877. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.10.023.

Nabavi SF, Daglia M, Moghaddam AH, Habtemariam S, Nabavi SM. Curcumin and Liver Disease: from Chemistry to Medicine. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf. 2014 13: 62–77. doi:10.1111/1541-4337.12047. Tanner Award as the most cited paper of 2014 in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Natarajan K, Singh S, Burke TR Jr, Grunberger D, Aggarwal BB. Caffeic acid phenethyl ester is a potent and specific inhibitor of activation of nuclear transcription factor NF-kappa B. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Aug 20;93(17):9090-5. Citations: > 1000

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017 Dec 16;390(10113):2627-2642. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3.

Russo GL. Ins and outs of dietary phytochemicals in cancer chemoprevention. Biochem Pharmacol. 2007 Aug 15;74(4):533-44. Epub 2007 Feb 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 17382300. Citations: > 300

Rosenson RS, Baker S, Banach M, Borow KM, Braun LT, Bruckert E, Brunham LR, Catapano AL, Elam MB, Mancini GBJ, Moriarty PM, Morris PB, Muntner P, Ray KK, Stroes ES, Taylor BA, Taylor VH, Watts GF, Thompson PD. Optimizing Cholesterol Treatment in Patients With Muscle Complaints. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Sep 5;70(10):1290-1301. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.07.752.

Chateauvieux S, Morceau F, Dicato M, Diederich M. Molecular and therapeutic potential and toxicity of valproic acid. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010;2010. pii: 479364. doi: 10.1155/2010/479364. Citations: > 250

Barnes EC, Kumar R, Davis RA. The use of isolated natural products as scaffolds for the generation of chemically diverse screening libraries for drug discovery. Nat Prod Rep. 2016 Mar;33(3):372-81. doi: 10.1039/c5np00121h.

Sengupta S, Toh SA, Sellers LA, Skepper JN, Koolwijk P, Leung HW, Yeung HW, Wong RN, Sasisekharan R, Fan TP. Modulating angiogenesis: the yin and the yang in ginseng. Circulation. 2004 Sep 7;110(10):1219-25. Epub 2004 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 15337705.

Serban MC, Colantonio LD, Manthripragada AD, Monda KL, Bittner VA, Banach M, Chen L, Huang L, Dent R, Kent ST, Muntner P, Rosenson RS. Statin Intolerance and Risk of Coronary Heart Events and All-Cause Mortality Following Myocardial Infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Mar 21;69(11):1386-1395. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.12.036.

Teiten MH, Eifes S, Dicato M, Diederich M. Curcumin-the paradigm of a multi-target natural compound with applications in cancer prevention and treatment. Toxins (Basel). 2010 Jan;2(1):128-62. doi: 10.3390/toxins2010128.

Kerns ML, DePianto D, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Talalay P, Coulombe PA. Reprogramming of keratin biosynthesis by sulforaphane restores skin integrity in epidermolysis bullosa simplex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Sep 4;104(36):14460-5.

Tzvetkov NT, Stammler HG, Neumann B, Hristova S, Antonov L, Gastreich M. Crystal structures, binding interactions, and ADME evaluation of brain penetrant N-substituted indazole-5-carboxamides as subnanomolar, selective monoamine oxidase B and dual MAO-A/B inhibitors. Eur J Med Chem. 2017 Feb 15;127:470-492. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.01.011.

Karsch-Völk M, Barrett B, Kiefer D, Bauer R, Ardjomand-Woelkart K, Linde K. Echinacea for preventing and treating the common cold. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Feb 20;(2):CD000530. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000530. Citations: > 300

Bunaciu RP, MacDonald RJ, Gao F, Johnson LM, Varner JD, Wang X, Nataraj S, Guzman ML, Yen A. Potential for subsets of wt-NPM1 primary AML blasts to respond to retinoic acid treatment. Oncotarget. 2018; 9:4134-4149. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23642

Amararathna M, Hoskin DW, Rupasinghe HPV. Anthocyanin-rich haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) berry extracts reduce nitrosamine-induced DNA damage in human normal lung epithelial cells in vitro. Food Chem Toxicol. 2020 May 13;141:111404. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2020.111404. 

Ahn YH, Hwang Y, Liu H, Wang XJ, Zhang Y, Stephenson KK, Boronina TN, Cole RN, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Talalay P, Cole PA. Electrophilic tuning of the chemoprotective natural product sulforaphane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 May 25;107(21):9590-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1004104107.

Giampieri F, Tulipani S, Alvarez-Suarez JM, Quiles JL, Mezzetti B, Battino M. The strawberry: composition, nutritional quality, and impact on human health. Nutrition. 2012 Jan;28(1):9-19. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2011.08.009. Citations: > 300

Solfrizzi V, Frisardi V, Seripa D, Logroscino G, Imbimbo BP, D’Onofrio G, Addante F, Sancarlo D, Cascavilla L, Pilotto A, Panza F. Mediterranean diet in predementia and dementia syndromes. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2011 Aug;8(5):520-42. Review. PubMed PMID: 21605047.

Baird L, Llères D, Swift S, Dinkova-Kostova AT. Regulatory flexibility in the Nrf2-mediated stress response is conferred by conformational cycling of the Keap1-Nrf2 protein complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Sep 17;110(38):15259-64. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1305687110.

Valenti D, Braidy N, De Rasmo D, Signorile A, Rossi L, Atanasov AG, Volpicella M, Henrion-Caude A, Nabavi SM, Vacca RA. Mitochondria as pharmacological targets in Down syndrome. Free Radic Biol Med. 2018 Jan;114:69-83. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2017.08.014.

Xiao J, Kai G. A review of dietary polyphenol-plasma protein interactions: characterization, influence on the bioactivity, and structure-affinity relationship. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2012;52(1):85-101. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2010.499017.

Reuter S, Eifes S, Dicato M, Aggarwal BB, Diederich M. Modulation of anti-apoptotic and survival pathways by curcumin as a strategy to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Biochem Pharmacol. 2008 Dec 1;76(11):1340-51. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2008.07.031. Citations: > 300

Quinti L, Dayalan Naidu S, Träger U, Chen X, Kegel-Gleason K, Llères D, Connolly C, Chopra V, Low C, Moniot S, Sapp E, Tousley AR, Vodicka P, Van Kanegan MJ, Kaltenbach LS, Crawford LA, Fuszard M, Higgins M, Miller JRC, Farmer RE, Potluri V, Samajdar S, Meisel L, Zhang N, Snyder A, Stein R, Hersch SM, Ellerby LM, Weerapana E, Schwarzschild MA, Steegborn C, Leavitt BR, Degterev A, Tabrizi SJ, Lo DC, DiFiglia M, Thompson LM, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Kazantsev AG. KEAP1-modifying small molecule reveals muted NRF2 signaling responses in neural stem cells from Huntington’s disease patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jun 6;114(23):E4676-E4685. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614943114.

Sugarman BJ, Aggarwal BB, Hass PE, Figari IS, Palladino MA Jr, Shepard HM. Recombinant human tumor necrosis factor-alpha: effects on proliferation of normal and transformed cells in vitro. Science. 1985 Nov 22;230(4728):943-5. PubMed PMID: 3933111. Citations: > 1800

Wang L, Waltenberger B, Pferschy-Wenzig EM, Blunder M, Liu X, Malainer C, Blazevic T, Schwaiger S, Rollinger JM, Heiss EH, Schuster D, Kopp B, Bauer R, Stuppner H, Dirsch VM, Atanasov AG. Natural product agonists of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ): a review. Biochem Pharmacol. 2014 Nov 1;92(1):73-89. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2014.07.018. Altmetric score: > 2500 

Wakabayashi N, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Holtzclaw WD, Kang MI, Kobayashi A, Yamamoto M, Kensler TW, Talalay P. Protection against electrophile and oxidant stress by induction of the phase 2 response: fate of cysteines of the Keap1 sensor modified by inducers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Feb 17;101(7):2040-5. Citations:> 800