[HTML][HTML] Repurposed itraconazole for use in the treatment of malignancies as a promising therapeutic strategy

CL Li, ZX Fang, Z Wu, YY Hou, HT Wu, J Liu - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding cancer biology and the development of novel agents for cancer treatment
has always been the goal of cancer researchers. However, the research and development of …

Inhibition of the hedgehog pathway for the treatment of cancer using Itraconazole

K Li, D Fang, Z Xiong, R Luo - OncoTargets and therapy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Itraconazole (ITZ) is an anti-fungal drug that has been used in clinical practice for nearly 35
years. Recently, numerous experiments have shown that ITZ possesses anti-cancer …

Repurposing itraconazole for the treatment of cancer

R Pounds, S Leonard, C Dawson… - Oncology …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
The repurposing of drugs is becoming increasingly attractive as it avoids the lengthy process
and cost implications associated with bringing a novel drug to market. Itraconazole is a …

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 …

“Hedgehog pathway”: a potential target of itraconazole in the treatment of cancer

X Wei, W Liu, JQ Wang, Z Tang - Journal of cancer research and clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Itraconazole is an antifungal drug that has been clinically used for over 30 years. In
recent years, scholars have discovered that it possesses an anticancer effect. Moreover, its …

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

P Pantziarka, V Sukhatme, G Bouche… - …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Itraconazole, a common triazole anti-fungal drug in widespread clinical use, has evidence of
clinical activity that is of interest in oncology. There is evidence that at the clinically relevant …

Anti-proliferation of breast cancer cells with itraconazole: Hedgehog pathway inhibition induces apoptosis and autophagic cell death

X Wang, S Wei, Y Zhao, C Shi, P Liu, C Zhang, Y Lei… - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Itraconazole is a common antifungal which may have promise for treating various human
cancers. We report that itraconazole was cytotoxic to MCF-7 and SKBR-3 breast cancer cell …

Recent advances in the design of Hedgehog pathway inhibitors for the treatment of malignancies

U Banerjee, MK Hadden - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is known to be dysregulated in several
forms of cancer. Hence, specifically targeting this signaling cascade is a valid and promising …

Repurposing the antihelmintic mebendazole as a hedgehog inhibitor

AR Larsen, RY Bai, JH Chung, A Borodovsky… - Molecular cancer …, 2015 - AACR
The hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is activated in many types of cancer and therefore
presents an attractive target for new anticancer agents. Here, we show that mebendazole, a …

Itraconazole induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest via inhibiting Hedgehog signaling in gastric cancer cells

Q Hu, YC Hou, J Huang, JY Fang, H Xiong - Journal of Experimental & …, 2017 - Springer
Background Itraconazole has been proved therapeutically effective against a variety of
human cancers. This study assessed the effect of itraconazole on the Hedgehog (Hh) …