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Among them, the total content of 19 gypenosides accurately quantified reaches 72.21 mg\/g and their anti-proliferation against t-HSC\/Cl-6 cells indicated compound 19 performed better activity (IC50: 28.1 \u00b1 2.0 \u03bcM) than the other compounds. Further network pharmacology study demonstrated that compound 19 mainly plays an anti-fibrosis role by regulating the EGFR signaling pathway, and the PI3K\u2013Akt signaling pathway. Overall, the verification result indicated that compound 19 appeared to be nontoxic to LO2, was able to modulate the PI3K\/Akt signal, led to subG1 cells cycle arrest and the activation of mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis of t-HSC\/Cl-6 cells for anti-hepatic fibrosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules26103006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,18]],"date-time":"2021-05-18T12:17:16Z","timestamp":1621340236000},"page":"3006","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Activity Components from Gynostemma pentaphyllum for Preventing Hepatic Fibrosis and of Its Molecular Targets by Network Pharmacology Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Yumeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guohui","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhonghua","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiewen","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaoshu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Structure-Based Drug Design &amp; Discovery, Ministry of Education, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuqing","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Functional Food and Wine, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Structure-Based Drug Design &amp; Discovery, Ministry of Education, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"447","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apsb.2017.02.004","article-title":"Advances in ultrasound-targeted microbubble-mediated gene therapy for liver fibrosis","volume":"7","author":"Huang","year":"2017","journal-title":"Acta Pharm. 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