www.aging-us.com AGING 2021, Vol. 13, No. 2 Research Paper Systems pharmacology dissection of Epimedium targeting tumor microenvironment to enhance cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in lung cancer Chao Huang1,*, Zhihua Li2,*, Jinglin Zhu2, Xuetong Chen1, Yuanyuan Hao2, Ruijie Yang2, Ruifei Huang2, Jun Zhou3, Zhenzhong Wang3, Wei Xiao3, Chunli Zheng2, Yonghua Wang1,2 1Bioinformatics Center, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China 2Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China 3State Key Laboratory of New-Tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical, Co., Ltd., Lianyungang 222001, China *Equal contribution Correspondence to: Yonghua Wang, Chunli Zheng, Wei Xiao; email:
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[email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8809-9137 Keywords: systems pharmacology, NSCLC, tumor microenvironment, epimedium, icaritin Received: April 15, 2020 Accepted: October 1, 2020 Published: January 17, 2021 Copyright: © 2021 Huang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT The clinical notably success of immunotherapy fosters an enthusiasm in developing drugs by enhancing antitumor immunity in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Epimedium, is a promising herbal medicine for tumor immunotherapy due to the pharmacological actions in immunological function modulation and antitumor. Here, we developed a novel systems pharmacology strategy to explore the polypharmacology mechanism of Epimedium involving in targeting TME of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).