Remdesivir: a review of its discovery and development leading to emergency use authorization for treatment of COVID-19

RT Eastman, JS Roth, KR Brimacombe… - ACS central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, the causative viral pathogen of COVID-19, has driven
the biomedical community to action—to uncover and develop antiviral interventions. One …

Drug repurposing for antimicrobial discovery

MA Farha, ED Brown - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a public threat on a global scale. The ongoing need
to develop new antimicrobial drugs that are effective against multi-drug-resistant pathogens …

Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the treatment and management of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

A Bhimraj, RL Morgan, AH Shumaker… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background There are many pharmacologic therapies that are being used or considered for
treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is a need for frequently updated …

[HTML][HTML] In silico prediction of potential inhibitors for the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 using molecular docking and dynamics simulation based drug-repurposing

Y Kumar, H Singh, CN Patel - Journal of infection and public health, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The rapidly enlarging COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARS-corona
virus-2 is a global public health emergency of an unprecedented level. Unfortunately no …

Clinical pharmacology perspectives on the antiviral activity of azithromycin and use in COVID‐19

B Damle, M Vourvahis, E Wang… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Azithromycin (AZ) is a broad‐spectrum macrolide antibiotic with a long half‐life and a large
volume of distribution. It is primarily used for the treatment of respiratory, enteric, and …

[HTML][HTML] Heparan sulfate assists SARS-CoV-2 in cell entry and can be targeted by approved drugs in vitro

Q Zhang, CZ Chen, M Swaroop, M Xu, L Wang, J Lee… - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The cell entry of SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as an attractive drug repurposing target for
COVID-19. Here we combine genetics and chemical perturbation to demonstrate that ACE2 …

[HTML][HTML] FDA-approved drugs with potent in vitro antiviral activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

A Mostafa, A Kandeil, Y AMM Elshaier, O Kutkat… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Drug repositioning is an unconventional drug discovery approach to
explore new therapeutic benefits of existing drugs. Currently, it emerges as a rapid avenue …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing autophagy in Alzheimer's disease through drug repositioning

M Eshraghi, M Ahmadi, S Afshar, S Lorzadeh… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the biggest human health threats due to increases in
aging of the global population. Unfortunately, drugs for treating AD have been largely …

Drug combination therapy increases successful drug repositioning

W Sun, PE Sanderson, W Zheng - Drug discovery today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Publications for drug repositioning have drastically increased in past five
years.•Different types of drug repositioning and available resources have been …

Identification of small-molecule inhibitors of Zika virus infection and induced neural cell death via a drug repurposing screen

M Xu, EM Lee, Z Wen, Y Cheng, WK Huang, X Qian… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
In response to the current global health emergency posed by the Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak
and its link to microcephaly and other neurological conditions, we performed a drug …