Background:

Evodiamine is an alkaloid isolated from the fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa Bentham with diverse biological activities including anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity, and antitumor.

Evodiamine shows cytotoxicity against a variety of human cancer cell-lines by inducing apoptosis. Moreover, it is a naturally multi-targeting antitumor molecule, which exerts the antitumor activity by various molecular mechanism such as caspase-dependent and -independent pathways, sphingomyelin pathway, calcium/JNK signaling, 31 PI3K/Akt/caspase and Fas-L/NF-κB signaling pathways32[1].

Evodiamine inhibits the metabolism of dapoxetine. Compared to the control group, the pharmacokinetic parameter of t1/2, AUC(0-∞) and Tmax of dapoxetine in evodiamine group is significantly increased by 63.3%, 44.8% and 50.4%, respectively. Moreover, evodiamine has significantly decreased the pharmacokinetic parameter of t1/2 and AUC(0-∞) of desmethyl dapoxetine[2]. Evodiamine suppresses tumor growth in a subcutaneous H22 xenograft model. Evodiamine attenuates VEGF-induced angiogenesis in vivo[3].

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