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Drug Repurposing as an Effective Drug Discovery Strategy: A Critical Review [PDF]

Drug Design, Development and Therapy
Abdulaziz H Al Khzem,1 Saad M Wali2 1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, 31441, Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 2Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, College of ...
Al Khzem AH, Wali SM
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Literature data-based de novo candidates for drug repurposing [PDF]

BMC Bioinformatics
Background Drug repurposing offers a promising strategy for drug discovery. Drug repurposing involves identifying new therapeutic indications for existing, marketed drugs, thereby reducing the risks, costs, and time typically required for drug ...
Xianglong Liang, Xin Jiang, Yifang Ma
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Advancing the human right to health in cancer care through drug repurposing strategies [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
This perspective critically evaluates the global potential of drug repurposing strategies in oncology to advance health equity and sustainable innovation.
Nahida Sakis, Michelle Slone, Nadav Michaan, Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu   +3 more
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Does collective consciousness compromise during epidemics and pandemics? [PDF]

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities, 2021
The ongoing pandemic, COVID-19, has received unprecedented global attention. Though a pathogen is essentially the causative agent, the dynamics of the cause-effect in major events like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not ...
Anoushka Khanna, Namita I, Rina Chakrabarti, Prem Indraganti   +3 more
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Paclitaxel and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring with Microsampling in Clinical Practice

Pharmaceuticals, 2023
Paclitaxel is an anticancer agent efficacious in various tumors. There is large interindividual variability in drug plasma concentrations resulting in a wide variability in observed toxicity in patients.
Mirjana Radovanovic, Peter Galettis, Alex Flynn, Jennifer H. Martin, Jennifer J. Schneider   +4 more
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Transcriptomic Profiling of DNA Damage Response in Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Cells before and after Radiation and Temozolomide Treatment

Cells, 2022
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive, invasive and treatment-resistant tumour. The DNA damage response (DDR) provides tumour cells with enhanced ability to activate cell cycle arrest and repair treatment-induced DNA damage.
Mathew Lozinski, Nikola A. Bowden, Moira C. Graves, Michael Fay, Bryan W. Day, Brett W. Stringer, Paul A. Tooney   +6 more
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A Path to Real-World Evidence in Critical Care Using Open-Source Data Harmonization Tools

Critical Care Explorations, 2023
COVID-19 highlighted the need for use of real-world data (RWD) in critical care as a near real-time resource for clinical, research, and policy efforts.
Smith F. Heavner, PhD, RN, Wesley Anderson, PhD, Rahul Kashyap, MBBS, MBA, Pamela Dasher, BA, Ewy A. Mathé, PhD, Laura Merson, Philippe J. Guerin, MD, PhD, Jeff Weaver, MBA, Matthew Robinson, MD, Marco Schito, PhD, Vishakha K. Kumar, MD, MBA, Paul Nagy, PhD   +11 more
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Sequential azacitidine and carboplatin induces immune activation in platinum-resistant high-grade serous ovarian cancer cell lines and primes for checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

BMC Cancer, 2022
Background Platinum chemoresistance results in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) disease recurrence. Recent treatment advances using checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy has not benefited platinum-resistant HGSOC.
Michelle W. Wong-Brown, Andre van der Westhuizen, Nikola A. Bowden   +2 more
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Overall survival in metastatic melanoma correlates with pembrolizumab exposure and T cell exhaustion markers

Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2021
Trial data support an absence of an exposure–survival relationship for pembrolizumab. As these relationships remain unexamined in a real‐world setting, we determined them in metastatic melanoma prospectively in an observational study.
Vishal Navani, Moira C. Graves, Giovana Celli Marchett, Hiren Mandaliya, Nikola A. Bowden, Andre van derWesthuizen   +5 more
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Drug repurposing for Alzheimer’s disease from 2012–2022—a 10-year literature review

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition with few treatment options available. Drug repurposing studies have sought to identify existing drugs that could be repositioned to treat AD; however, the effectiveness of
Monika E. Grabowska, Annabelle Huang, Zhexing Wen, Bingshan Li, Wei-Qi Wei   +4 more
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