[HTML][HTML] Repositioning of antiparasitic drugs for tumor treatment

YQ Li, Z Zheng, QX Liu, X Lu, D Zhou, J Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Drug repositioning is a strategy for identifying new antitumor drugs; this strategy allows
existing and approved clinical drugs to be innovatively repurposed to treat tumors. Based on …

[HTML][HTML] Anthelmintics for drug repurposing: Opportunities and challenges

SE Alavi, HE Shahmabadi - Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug repositioning is defined as a process to identify a new application for drugs. This
approach is critical as it takes advantage of well-known pharmacokinetics …

[HTML][HTML] Repositioning of anthelmintic drugs for the treatment of cancers of the digestive system

F Laudisi, M Marônek, A Di Grazia… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tumors of the digestive system, when combined together, account for more new cases and
deaths per year than tumors arising in any other system of the body and their incidence …

Progress in redirecting antiparasitic drugs for cancer treatment

H Huang, Q He, B Guo, X Xu, Y Wu… - Drug design, development …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Drug repurposing is a feasible strategy in developing novel medications. Regarding the
cancer field, scientists are continuously making efforts to redirect conventional drugs into …

[HTML][HTML] Anthelmintic Drugs as Emerging Immune Modulators in Cancer

C Stolfi, T Pacifico, A Luiz-Ferreira… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite recent advances in treatment approaches, cancer is still one of the leading causes
of death worldwide. Restoration of tumor immune surveillance represents a valid strategy to …

[HTML][HTML] Double repositioning: Veterinary antiparasitic to human anticancer

T Sultana, U Jan, JI Lee - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drug repositioning, the approach of discovering different uses for existing drugs, has gained
enormous popularity in recent years in the anticancer drug discovery field due to the …

Drug repositioning approaches to parasitic diseases: a medicinal chemistry perspective

LG Ferreira, AD Andricopulo - Drug Discovery Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Neglected tropical diseases affect approximately one billion people
worldwide.•Most of the available drugs have limited efficacy and cause serious adverse …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing of benzimidazole anthelmintic drugs as cancer therapeutics

B Song, EY Park, KJ Kim, SH Ki - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Although non-prescription anthelmintics are often used for cancer
treatment, there is a lack of information regarding their anti-cancer effects in clinical settings …

The use of anticancer drugs in antiparasitic chemotherapy.

MQ Klinkert, V Heussler - Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry, 2006 - europepmc.org
Many similarities exist between cancer cells and parasites. A potentially lucrative starting
point for the discovery of novel drugs to combat parasites is to examine available …

[HTML][HTML] The antitumor potentials of benzimidazole anthelmintics as repurposing drugs

DS Son, ES Lee, SE Adunyah - Immune network, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of refractory tumor cells limits therapeutic efficacy in cancer by activating
mechanisms that promote cellular proliferation, migration, invasion, metastasis, and survival …