Drug repositioning: Progress and challenges in drug discovery for various diseases

Y Hua, X Dai, Y Xu, G Xing, H Liu, T Lu, Y Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional de novo drug discovery, drug repurposing has become an
attractive drug discovery strategy due to its low-cost and high efficiency. Through a …

Antibiotics: where did we go wrong?

KM Overbye, JF Barrett - Drug discovery today, 2005 - Elsevier
In the late 1960s, the medical need for new antibiotics began to be questioned, and the
pharmaceutical industry shifted its emphasis of antibacterials from that of a therapeutic …

Potential management of resistant microbial infections with a novel non-antibiotic: the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac sodium

NK Dutta, S Annadurai, K Mazumdar… - International journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Diclofenac sodium (Dc), an anti-inflammatory agent, has remarkable inhibitory action both
against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant clinical isolates of various Gram-positive and Gram …

The anti-inflammatory non-antibiotic helper compound diclofenac: an antibacterial drug target

K Mazumdar, SG Dastidar, JH Park… - European journal of clinical …, 2009 - Springer
Diclofenac sodium (Dc) was found to possess antibacterial activity against both drug-
sensitive and drug-resistant clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria …

Diclofenac in the management of E. coli urinary tract infections

K Mazumdar, NK Dutta, SG Dastidar, N Motohashi… - in vivo, 2006 - iv.iiarjournals.org
E. coli is the main agent of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) and accounts for
more than 85% of recurrent cystitis and at least 35% of recurrent pyelonephritis. Despite the …

Can biotech deliver new antibiotics?

JF Barrett - Current opinion in microbiology, 2005 - Elsevier
The evolution of support for the discovery and development of antibacterial (or antibiotic)
agents from the larger pharmaceutical companies to the entrepreneur-like small …

Potential role of the cardiovascular non-antibiotic (helper compound) amlodipine in the treatment of microbial infections: scope and hope for the future

K Mazumdar, KA Kumar, NK Dutta - International journal of antimicrobial …, 2010 - Elsevier
The appearance of multiresistant bacterial strains coupled with the globally ongoing
problem of infectious diseases point to the imperative need for novel and affordable …

Evaluation of antibacterial activity of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs against Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infection

FA Eman, MAEB Rehab… - African …, 2016 - publications.openuniversitystm.com
Extensive use of antibiotics for urinary tract infections has led to the emergence of drug-
resistant microorganisms and one solution to this problem is to search for non-antibiotic …

Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of some analgesic or anti‐inflammatory drugs

Ö Ertürk, A Değirmenci, E Yurdakul Ertürk… - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are widely used to relieve pain, reduce inflammation,
high temperature and fever, and prevent blood clots. There are very few studies where some …

[PDF][PDF] In-vitro antibacterial activity of common antibiotics and herb extracts to clinical isolates of Escherichia coli collected from UTI patient

MMH Fuad, H Ferdowsy, MN Hossain… - Int J Res Pharm …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Investigations were carried out to determine in vitro antibacterial activity of commercial
antibiotics commonly used for the treatment of UTI patient and some herb extracts to clinical …