“…Its derivative sodium Tan IIA sulfonate has been comprehensively used in the clinic ( Ji et al, 2017 ; Li et al, 2017 ; Mao et al, 2019 ). Tan IIA showed numerous pharmacological effects such as anti-atherosclerosis ( Lu et al, 2021 ), protection of cardiomyocytes and cardiac function ( Gao et al, 2019 ; Zhang et al, 2019 ), improvement of diabetic osteoporosis ( Ma et al, 2019 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ), repair of acute blunt skeletal muscle injury ( Wang et al, 2020 ) and tibia cartilage dysplasia ( Yang et al, 2019 ), protection against oxidative stress-induced myocardial cell injury ( Yang G. et al, 2020 ), reduction of endometriosis ( Chen and Gong, 2020 ) and traumatic brain injury ( Huang et al, 2020 ), anti-allergy ( Heo and Im, 2019 ), prevention of nonalcoholic fatty liver ( Gao et al, 2021 ), mastitis ( Yang et al, 2021 ), arthritis ( Wang et al, 2019 ), and cerebral ischemia ( Tang et al, 2019 ). As per the anti-tumorigenic potential of Tan IIA, it inhibited the growth of colorectal cancer ( Xue et al, 2019 ; Liu et al, 2021 ), gastric cancer ( Xu Z. et al, 2018 ), cervical cancer ( Tong et al, 2020 ), laryngeal cancer ( Xu H. et al, 2018 ), nasopharyngeal cancer ( Wang et al, 2021 ), and ovarian cancer ( Li N. et al, 2018 ).…”