Drug repurposing in cancer

L Sleire, HE Førde, IA Netland, L Leiss, BS Skeie… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer is a major health issue worldwide, and the global burden of cancer is expected to
increase in the coming years. Whereas the limited success with current therapies has driven …

[HTML][HTML] Drugs repurposed: An advanced step towards the treatment of breast cancer and associated challenges

JA Malik, S Ahmed, B Jan, O Bender… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is mostly observed in women and is responsible for huge mortality in
women subjects globally. Due to the continued development of drug resistance and other …

Exosome-mediated siRNA delivery to suppress postoperative breast cancer metastasis

L Zhao, C Gu, Y Gan, L Shao, H Chen, H Zhu - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
High recurrence and metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) after operation is a
leading cause of breast cancer related death. The pre-metastatic niche (PMN) is an …

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 …

Understanding the role of integrins in breast cancer invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, and drug resistance

H Yousefi, M Vatanmakanian, M Mahdiannasser… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Integrins are cell adhesion receptors, which are typically transmembrane glycoproteins that
connect to the extracellular matrix (ECM). The function of integrins regulated by biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] First-onset mental disorders after cancer diagnosis and cancer-specific mortality: a nationwide cohort study

J Zhu, F Fang, A Sjölander, K Fall, HO Adami… - Annals of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The diagnosis of cancer is strongly associated with the risk of mental disorders
even in patients with no previous history of mental disorders. Accumulating data suggest that …

Repurposing of antipsychotic trifluoperazine for treating brain metastasis, lung metastasis and bone metastasis of melanoma by disrupting autophagy flux

Y Xia, F Xu, M Xiong, H Yang, W Lin, Y Xie, H Xi… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Targeted therapies and immunotherapy have brought substantial benefits to patients with
melanoma. However, brain metastases remain the biggest threat to the survival and quality …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm, and Anti-persister Activities of Penfluridol Against Staphylococcus aureus

Y Liu, P She, L Xu, L Chen, Y Li, S Liu, Z Li… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Staphylococcus aureus has increasingly attracted global attention as a major opportunistic
human pathogen owing to the emergence of biofilms (BFs) and persisters that are known to …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting PFKL with penfluridol inhibits glycolysis and suppresses esophageal cancer tumorigenesis in an AMPK/FOXO3a/BIM-dependent manner

C Zheng, X Yu, Y Liang, Y Zhu, Y He, L Liao… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
As one of the hallmarks of cancer, metabolic reprogramming leads to cancer progression,
and targeting glycolytic enzymes could be useful strategies for cancer therapy. By screening …

Cancer and the dopamine D2 receptor: a pharmacological perspective

JS Weissenrieder, JD Neighbors, RB Mailman… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2019 - ASPET
The dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) family is upregulated in many cancers and tied to
stemness. Reduced cancer risk has been correlated with disorders such as schizophrenia …