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In the last previous study, we have demonstrated the potential anti-tumor properties of anethole; an aromatic compound abundantly present in nature that serves as a major active ingredient found in plants like anise and fennel. In the current study, we aimed to investigate how this molecule inhibits oral cancer cell proliferation and induces apoptosis. This will be carried out by a transcriptomic study of its effects on the expression profile of cell cycle and apoptosis regulation genes in gingival cancer cells. cell cycle. Ca9-22 cells were treated with 10 \u03bcM of anethole (IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>) and cell proliferation was evaluated by MTT assay. The percentage of cells in different stages of the cell cycle was measured by flow cytometry. Cytotoxicity was evaluated by LDH assay and apoptosis was investigated by Pi\/Annexin V assay following 24-hour treatment. Furthermore, we employed PCR array analysis to investigate alterations in the expression levels of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes associated with cell cycle regulation and apoptosis. Finally, Gene-gene interactions were examined using the Gene MANIA database. Our findings demonstrate that anethole significantly attenuated the proliferation of Ca9-22 cells, leading to disturbances in cell cycle progression and eliciting cellular toxicity and apoptosis. By a double normalizing with two housekeeping genes (Actin and GAPDH), we show that, treatment with 10 \u03bcM of anethole alters (more than two-fold) the expression of 13 genes involved in the control of the cell cycle (8 were up regulated and 5 were down regulated) and 7 genes involved in the regulation of apoptosis (4 were up regulated and 3 downregulated by anethole). Finally, each group of genes modulated by anethole forms a network of connections between them or with other genes. Our study suggests that anethole holds promise as a potential alternative treatment for oral cancer by its ability to modify numerous oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes implicated in the cell cycle regulation and induction of apoptosis in oral cancer cells. 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