Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer, and cholesterol-lowering characteristics are all displayed by stigmasterol.[20] Zhao demonstrated how stigmasterol inhibits the Akt/mTOR pathway in gastric cancer cells, which causes apoptosis while also defending against autophagy.[21] In a number of malignancies, stigmasterol has been found to have antitumor effects by encouraging apoptosis, preventing proliferation, metastasis, and invasion, and triggering autophagy in tumor cells. The gene discussed is AKT1; the disease is gastric cancer.