Glycycoumarin

Glycycoumarin is a potent antispasmodic agent. Glycycoumarin is a major bioactive coumarin of licorice and exhibits antispasmodic activity. Glycycoumarin also has hepatoprotective effect. Glycycoumarin can be used for the research of abdominal pain and liver diseases^[1][2]. In Vitro:Glycycoumarin, (25 μM; 24 h) combining with ABT-737 (12.5 μM) synergistically, induces cell death in multiple types of liver cancer cell HepG2^[2].
Glycycoumarin is highly effective against alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity, and liver cancer through mechanisms involved in activation of Nrf2 antioxidant system, stimulation of AMPK-mediated energy homeostasis, induction of autophagy degradation process, and inhibiting oncogenic kinase T-lymphokine-activated killer cell-originated protein kinase activity^[3].
In Vivo:Glycycoumarin (30 μM-0.3 nM; 5 min) has an inhibitory effect on smooth muscle contraction induced by various types of stimulants through the inhibition of PDEs, especially isozyme 3, followed by the accumulation of intracellular cAMP^[1]. Glycycoumarin (10 mg/kg; i.p.; once daily for 4 d) enhances tumor growth inhibition in HepG2 xenograft model in mice and shows synergistical effect with ABT-737 (HY-50907)^[2].