# Editorial: Bioactive metabolites in traditional medicine: dual pathways to metabolic health

**Authors:** Wenlong Sun

PMC · DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1729667 · 2025-11-06

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** Ppara (peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha) [NCBI Gene 25747] {aka PPAR}, Il6 (interleukin 6) [NCBI Gene 24498] {aka ILg6, Ifnb2}, Cpt1a (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A) [NCBI Gene 25757] {aka CPT-Ia}, Gcg (glucagon) [NCBI Gene 14526] {aka GLP-1, Glu, PPG}, Ffar2 (free fatty acid receptor 2) [NCBI Gene 233079] {aka GPCR43, Gpr43}, Il1b (interleukin 1 beta) [NCBI Gene 24494] {aka IL-1F2}, Fads2 (fatty acid desaturase 2) [NCBI Gene 83512] {aka Fadsd6}, Nfkb1 (nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B cells 1, p105) [NCBI Gene 18033] {aka NF-KB1, NF-kappaB, NF-kappaB1, p105, p50, p50/p105}, Prkaa2 (protein kinase AMP-activated catalytic subunit alpha 2) [NCBI Gene 78975] {aka Ampk, Ampka2}, Ffar3 (free fatty acid receptor 3) [NCBI Gene 233080] {aka Gm478, Gpr41}, Scd (stearoyl-CoA desaturase) [NCBI Gene 246074] {aka Scd1}
- **Diseases:** hypoglycemic (MESH:C000721848), metabolic diseases (MESH:D008659), tumor (MESH:D009369), dysbiosis (MESH:D064806), cerebral ischemia (MESH:D002545), diabetic (MESH:D003920), cerebral ischemic (MESH:D002547), inflammatory (MESH:D007249), pulmonary fibrosis (MESH:D011658), cytotoxic (MESH:D064420), atherosclerosis (MESH:D050197), advanced glycation end (MESH:D003643)
- **Chemicals:** blood glucose (MESH:D001786), beta-pinene (MESH:C010789), bleomycin (MESH:D001761), essential oil (MESH:D009822), water (MESH:D014867), p-cresol sulfate (MESH:C408690), Polysaccharides (MESH:D011134), saponins (MESH:D012503), short-chain fatty acids (MESH:D005232), flavonoids (MESH:D005419), lipid (MESH:D008055), prebiotics (MESH:D056692), caryophyllene oxide (MESH:C515179), gastrodin (MESH:C045345), GXQW (-)
- **Species:** Astragalus membranaceus (species) [taxon 649199], Lactobacillus (genus) [taxon 1578], Mus musculus (house mouse, species) [taxon 10090], Bacillota (clostridial firmicutes, phylum) [taxon 1239], Pinus roxburghii (chir pine, species) [taxon 71650], Bifidobacterium (genus) [taxon 1678], Dubosiella (genus) [taxon 1937008], Gastrodia elata (species) [taxon 91201], Rattus norvegicus (brown rat, species) [taxon 10116]

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12630113