Emerging drugs for the treatment of irritability associated with autism spectrum disorder

A Shamabadi, H Karimi… - Expert Opinion on …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early-onset disorder with a prevalence of
1% among children and reported disability-adjusted life years of 4.31 million. Irritability is a …

Targeting inflammatory signaling in obsessive compulsive disorder: a promising approach

S Bhatt, K Anitha, DK Chellappan, D Mukherjee… - Metabolic Brain …, 2024 - Springer
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder. Approximately,
around 2% to 3% percent of the general population experience symptoms of OCD over the …

Network-based drug repurposing for schizophrenia

TTT Truong, ZSJ Liu, B Panizzutti, JH Kim… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite recent progress, the challenges in drug discovery for schizophrenia persist.
However, computational drug repurposing has gained popularity as it leverages the wealth …

Minocycline as a prospective therapeutic agent for cancer and non-cancer diseases: a scoping review

A Rezaei, A Moqadami, M Khalaj-Kondori - … -Schmiedeberg's Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
Minocycline is an FDA-approved secondary-generation tetracycline antibiotic. It is a
synthetic antibiotic having many biological effects, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory …

From Animal Models to Clinical Trials: The Potential of Antimicrobials in Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

MF Raghib, E Bernitsas - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central
nervous system (CNS). Microbes, including bacteria and certain viruses, particularly Epstein …

Psilocybin for dementia prevention? The potential role of psilocybin to alter mechanisms associated with major depression and neurodegenerative diseases

ZR Haniff, M Bocharova, T Mantingh, JJ Rucker… - Pharmacology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Major depression is an established risk factor for subsequent dementia, and depression in
late life may also represent a prodromal state of dementia. Considering current challenges …

Repurposing of pexidartinib for microglia depletion and renewal

MP Weyer, J Strehle, MKE Schäfer, I Tegeder - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pexidartinib (PLX3397) is a small molecule receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor of colony
stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) with moderate selectivity over other members of the …

[HTML][HTML] Minocycline in depression not responding to first-line therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MA Shamim, S Manna, P Dwivedi, MK Swami… - Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background: Major depressive disorder is often resistant to first-line treatment, with around
30% failing to respond to traditional therapy. Treatment-resistant depression results in …

Autism spectrum disorder and a possible role of anti-inflammatory treatments: experience in the pediatric allergy/immunology clinic

H Jyonouchi - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD1) is a behaviorally defined syndrome encompassing a
markedly heterogeneous patient population. Many ASD subjects fail to respond to the 1st …

[HTML][HTML] Use of gene regulatory network analysis to repurpose drugs to treat bipolar disorder

TTT Truong, ZSJ Liu, B Panizzutti, OM Dean… - Journal of Affective …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Bipolar disorder (BD) presents significant challenges in drug discovery,
necessitating alternative approaches. Drug repurposing, leveraging computational …