Small molecules in the treatment of COVID-19

S Lei, X Chen, J Wu, X Duan, K Men - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a global crisis, and brought severe disruptions to
societies and economies. Until now, effective therapeutics against COVID-19 are in high …

[HTML][HTML] Protein structure-based in-silico approaches to drug discovery: Guide to COVID-19 therapeutics

Y Gupta, OV Savytskyi, M Coban, A Venugopal… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
With more than 5 million fatalities and close to 300 million reported cases, COVID-19 is the
first documented pandemic due to a coronavirus that continues to be a major health …

COVID-19 therapeutic potential of natural products

Z Low, R Lani, V Tiong, C Poh, S AbuBakar… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite the fact that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) treatment and management are
now considerably regulated, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Inhibitors: Achieved Diversity, Developing Resistance and Future Strategies

C Fischer, JR Feys - Future Pharmacology, 2023 - mdpi.com
While the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be on its decline, the unclear impacts of long-
COVID cases, breakthrough infections in immunocompromised individuals, vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] Early treatment with fluvoxamine, bromhexine, cyproheptadine, and niclosamide to prevent clinical deterioration in patients with symptomatic COVID-19: a …

DL Wannigama, C Hurst, P Phattharapornjaroen… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Repurposed drugs with host-directed antiviral and immunomodulatory
properties have shown promise in the treatment of COVID-19, but few trials have studied …

Effect of lactoferrin on clinical outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: the LAC randomized clinical trial

E Matino, E Tavella, M Rizzi, GC Avanzi, D Azzolina… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
As lactoferrin is a nutritional supplement with proven antiviral and immunomodulatory
abilities, it may be used to improve the clinical course of COVID-19. The clinical efficacy and …

Inhibition of mucus secretion by niclosamide and benzbromarone in airways and intestine

J Ousingsawat, R Centeio, N Reyne, A McCarron… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Ca2+ activated Cl− channel TMEM16A (anoctamin 1; ANO1) is expressed in
secretory epithelial cells of airways and intestine. Previous studies provided evidence for a …

[HTML][HTML] Outpatient regimens to reduce COVID-19 hospitalisations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

DJ Sullivan, D Focosi, DF Hanley, M Cruciani… - MedRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background During pandemics, early outpatient treatments reduce the health system
burden. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in COVID-19 outpatients have tested …

Cell-of-origin targeted drug repurposing for triple-negative and inflammatory breast carcinoma with HDAC and HSP90 inhibitors combined with niclosamide

U Bhattacharya, M Kamran, M Manai, M Cristofanilli… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The human body is composed of hundreds of different normal cell types.
Some of the important and unique features of these normal cell types are inherited by the …

Drug repurposing to enhance antitumor response to PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors

X Thuru, R Magnez, H El-Bouazzati, G Vergoten… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Novel pharmacological approaches are needed to improve treatments of
advanced cancers, despite the considerable benefit of immunotherapy. New drugs are …