Drug repurposing: Misconceptions, challenges, and opportunities for academic researchers

CG Begley, M Ashton, J Baell, M Bettess… - Science Translational …, 2021 - science.org
Drug repurposing is promoted as a cost-and time-effective mechanism for providing new
medicines. Often, however, there is insufficient consideration by academic researchers of …

Repurposing of drugs: An attractive pharmacological strategy for cancer therapeutics

A Kirtonia, K Gala, SG Fernandes, G Pandya… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human malignancies are one of the major health-related issues though out the world and
anticipated to rise in the future. The development of novel drugs/agents requires a huge …

Blockade of beta-adrenergic receptors reduces cancer growth and enhances the response to anti-CTLA4 therapy by modulating the tumor microenvironment

KY Fjæstad, AMA Rømer, V Goitea, AZ Johansen… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) marks an important breakthrough of
cancer therapies in the past years. However, only a limited fraction of patients benefit from …

Preoperative β-blockade with propranolol reduces biomarkers of metastasis in breast cancer: a phase II randomized trial

JG Hiller, SW Cole, EM Crone, DJ Byrne… - Clinical cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: The majority of deaths from breast cancer occur following the development of
metastatic disease, a process inhibited by β-blockers in preclinical studies. This phase II …

Adrenergic signaling: a targetable checkpoint limiting development of the antitumor immune response

G Qiao, M Chen, MJ Bucsek, EA Repasky… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
An immune response must be tightly controlled so that it will be commensurate with the level
of response needed to protect the organism without damaging normal tissue. The roles of …

Muscle wasting: emerging pathways and potential drug targets

A Domaniku, SN Bilgic, S Kir - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Muscle wasting is a serious comorbidity associated with many disorders, including cancer,
kidney disease, heart failure, and aging. Progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass …

Repurposing of chronically used drugs in cancer therapy: a chance to grasp

MA Hijazi, A Gessner, N El-Najjar - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer mortalities are growing at an alarming pace around the globe, a
fact related to challenges, such as side effects, selectivity, and resistance, accompanied by …

[HTML][HTML] Carvedilol blocks neural regulation of breast cancer progression in vivo and is associated with reduced breast cancer mortality in patients

RD Gillis, E Botteri, A Chang, AI Ziegler… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The sympathetic nervous system drives breast cancer progression through β-
adrenergic receptor signalling. This discovery has led to the consideration of cardiac β …

New approaches in oncology for repositioning drugs: the case of PDE5 inhibitor sildenafil

M Cruz-Burgos, A Losada-Garcia… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The use of already-approved drugs to treat new or alternative diseases has proved to be
beneficial in medicine, because it reduces both drug development costs and timelines. Most …

Repurposing drugs in oncology: From candidate selection to clinical adoption

P Pantziarka, C Verbaanderd, I Huys, G Bouche… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug repurposing is a strategy that aims to develop novel cancer treatments through the
reuse of existing medicines developed in other disease areas. Such a strategy includes the …