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 …

Angiogenesis and anti-angiogenic treatment in prostate cancer: mechanisms of action and molecular targets

E Ioannidou, M Moschetta, S Shah, JS Parker… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of
cancer-related death worldwide. Many therapeutic advances over the last two decades have …

New facets of antifungal therapy

YL Chang, SJ Yu, J Heitman, M Wellington, YL Chen - Virulence, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Invasive fungal infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in
immunocompromised patients, and such infections are a substantial burden to healthcare …

Repurposing old drugs to fight multidrug resistant cancers

J Dinić, T Efferth, AT García-Sosa, J Grahovac… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Overcoming multidrug resistance represents a major challenge for cancer treatment. In the
search for new chemotherapeutics to treat malignant diseases, drug repurposing gained a …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing Drugs in Oncology (ReDO)—diclofenac as an anti-cancer agent

P Pantziarka, V Sukhatme, G Bouche… - …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diclofenac (DCF) is a well-known and widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
(NSAID), with a range of actions which are of interest in an oncological context. While there …

A phase Ib/IIa trial of 9 repurposed drugs combined with temozolomide for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma: CUSP9v3

ME Halatsch, RE Kast, G Karpel-Massler… - Neuro-Oncology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The dismal prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM) may be related to the ability of
GBM cells to develop mechanisms of treatment resistance. We designed a protocol called …

Itraconazole inhibits the Hedgehog signaling pathway thereby inducing autophagy-mediated apoptosis of colon cancer cells

H Deng, L Huang, Z Liao, M Liu, Q Li, R Xu - Cell Death & Disease, 2020 - nature.com
Itraconazole is as an antifungal medication used to treat systemic fungal infections.
Recently, it has been reported to be effective in suppressing tumor growth by inhibiting the …

Drug repositioning for effective prostate cancer treatment

B Turanli, M Grøtli, J Boren, J Nielsen, M Uhlen… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drug repositioning has gained attention from both academia and pharmaceutical companies
as an auxiliary process to conventional drug discovery. Chemotherapeutic agents have …

Repurposing itraconazole as an anticancer agent

H Tsubamoto, T Ueda, K Inoue… - Oncology …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Itraconazole, a common anti-fungal agent, has demonstrated potential anticancer activity,
including reversing chemoresistance mediated by P-glycoprotein, modulating the signal …