Britanin – a beacon of hope against gastrointestinal tumors?

Figure 1 Influence of Britanin on biological processes and related proteins in gastrointestinal tumors. A red upward pointing arrow (“↑”) indicates biological process activation by Britanin, whereas a blue downward pointing arrow (“↓“) signifies biological process inhibition by the same compound. Similar applies to the level of proteins, the symbols of which are located in four multicolored areas representing liver, colorectal, pancreatic, and gastric cancer cells.

Figure 2 Novel research directions which could be adopted in future gastrointestinal research on Britanin. The light-yellow rectangles represent data on Britanin obtained from studies other than those associated with liver, colorectal, pancreatic, and gastric cancer. Processes included therein are linked to various tumor-related phenomena, which are depicted in gray rectangles. Britanin was not yet investigated in these tumor-related phenomena, which was marked with solid red arrows and question marks (“?”). Such information may suggest the direction of further research on gastrointestinal tumors.