[HTML][HTML] Drug repositioning: Using psychotropic drugs for the treatment of glioma

F You, C Zhang, X Liu, D Ji, T Zhang, R Yu, S Gao - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Psychotropic drugs can penetrate the blood–brain barrier and regulate the levels of
neurotransmitters and neuromodulators such as γ-aminobutyric acid, glutamate, serotonin …

Drug repositioning in glioblastoma: a pathway perspective

SK Tan, A Jermakowicz, AK Mookhtiar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant primary adult brain tumor. The current
standard of care is surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, which extends …

Tackling the behavior of cancer cells: molecular bases for repurposing antipsychotic drugs in the treatment of glioblastoma

M Persico, C Abbruzzese, S Matteoni, P Matarrese… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is associated with a very dismal prognosis, and current therapeutic
options still retain an overall unsatisfactorily efficacy in clinical practice. Therefore, novel …

Repurposing antipsychotics as glioblastoma therapeutics: Potentials and challenges

JK Lee, DH Nam, J Lee - Oncology letters, 2016 - spandidos-publications.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and most lethal primary brain tumor,
with tragically little therapeutic progress over the last 30 years. Surgery provides a modest …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging therapeutic potential of anti-psychotic drugs in the management of human glioma: A comprehensive review

MNA Kamarudin, I Parhar - Oncotarget, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite numerous advancements in the last decade, human gliomas such as astrocytoma
and glioblastoma multiforme have the worst prognoses among all cancers. Anti-psychotic …

Repurposing psychiatric drugs as anti-cancer agents

J Huang, D Zhao, Z Liu, F Liu - Cancer letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Cancer is a major public health problem and one of the leading contributors to the global
disease burden. The high cost of development of new drugs and the increasingly severe …

Repurposing some older drugs that cross the blood–brain barrier and have potential anticancer activity to provide new treatment options for glioblastoma

D Rundle‐Thiele, R Head, L Cosgrove… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is a brain neoplasm with limited 5‐year survival rates. Developments of new
treatment regimens that improve patient survival in patients with glioblastoma are needed. It …

Rational brain tumor chemotherapy. The interaction of drug and tumor.

DR Groothuis, RG Blasberg - Neurologic Clinics, 1985 - europepmc.org
This article demonstrates that drug delivery to brain tumors is a function of both drug
properties and tumor properties and that both must be considered in planning …

Neurooncology clinical trial design for targeted therapies: lessons learned from the North American Brain Tumor Consortium

SM Chang, KR Lamborn, JG Kuhn, WKA Yung… - Neuro …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The North American Brain Tumor Consortium (NABTC) is a multi-institutional
consortium with the primary objective of evaluating novel therapeutic strategies through …

It is time to include patients with brain tumors in phase I trials in oncology

PY Wen, D Schiff, TF Cloughesy… - Journal of Clinical …, 2011 - ascopubs.org
Traditionally, the majority of phase I studies of novel agents in oncology have excluded
patients with primary brain tumors. Although phase I studies are designed to determine …