Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Network Pharmacology Prediction: Mechanism Study of Puerarin in the Treatment of Giant Cell Tumors of Bone

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Network Pharmacology Prediction: Mechanism Study of Puerarin in the Treatment of Giant Cell Tumors of Bone

Official Title: Treatment of Giant Cell Bone Tumor With Purerin: New Insights From Network Pharmacology, Bioinformatics Analysis, and Experimental Verification

Study ID: NCT06331104

Conditions

Giant Cell Tumors

Interventions

gene expression levels

Study Description

Brief Summary: Based on network pharmacology analysis, this study aims to explore the potential therapeutic targets and molecular mechanisms of puerarin on giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) genes.

Detailed Description: The giant cell tumor of bone's pathological genes were discovered from DisGeNET and GeneCards databases. The therapeutic genes of puerarin were gathered from Swiss Target Prediction, CTD(Comparative Toxicogenomics Database), PharmMapper, and TCMSP databases (Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform). Cytoscape software was used with the MCODE algorithm to calculate key potential therapeutic targets of puerarin against GCTB. The bulk RNA-seq datasets (GSE102193) were used to identify differential expression of potential therapeutic genes. The sc RNA-seq (GSE168664) was utilized to determine the expression distribution of different cell clusters. Essential targets of puerarin against GCTB underwent function and pathway enrichment assays to elucidate biological processes and signaling pathways. Furthermore, the investigators conducted a comparison to determine if the primary biological processes and pathways following denosumab treatment exhibit resemblances to the potential mechanisms of puerarin action. Molecular docking and dynamics simulation were conducted to evaluate interactions between selected potential therapeutic targets and puerarin. Immunohistochemical (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF) staining were performed to identify the expression of crucial markers in human GCTB tissue. Expression levels of pivotal genes in primary BMSC cells and primary GCTB cells and their alteration following puerarin treatment in primary GCTB cells were evaluated.The significance of differences between groups was estimated by the Student t-test or Wilcoxon test. In all the statistical analyses, data with two-tailed p \< 0.05 were considered statistically significant.